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Doubleday (@doubledaybooks.bsky.social) has acquired the new psychological thriller from Paula Hawkins, the author of The Girl on the Train, in a “major” deal. The thriller is scheduled for publication by Transworld on 15th July 2027.👇

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Transworld bags Paula Hawkins’ new thriller as TV and international rights swept up

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 39m

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 03/10/2026

ICYMI: Hachette Children’s Group will publish Heartstopper: The Mini-Comics by Alice Oseman, featuring two previously unseen original mini-comics alongside existing fan favourites. The full-colour hardback will publish on HCG’s Tempest imprint on 7th September 2027. 👇

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Hachette Children’s Group announces Heartstopper: The Mini-Comics

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 03/10/2026

ICYMI: Transworld has poached Mhairi McFarlane from HarperCollins, after 12 novels with the publisher, with a two-book deal. The first novel, Significant Others, will publish in spring 2028. 👇

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Transworld poaches Mhairi McFarlane from HarperCollins with two-book deal

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 02/10/2026

Shelley’s Hachette sidestep is a moment to re-prioritise, writes Philip Jones in this week's editor's letter. 👇

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Editor's letter: Shelley’s Hachette sidestep is a moment to re-prioritise

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 02/10/2026

Tor UK (@torbooksuk.bsky.social) has acquired A Melody of Bones and an as-yet-untitled sequel by debut author Sonja Howard, with publication of the first book scheduled for 2028. 👇

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Tor UK signs A Melody of Bones by debut author Sonja Howard in two-book deal

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 02/10/2026

Skylight Books has made its first acquisition, Between the Years, a debut second-chance love story by Anna Walden. The book will publish in e-book and audio on 19th November 2026, with a paperback following in autumn 2027. 👇

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Skylight makes first acquisition with Anna Walden’s Between the Years

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 02/10/2026

DK Children’s is expanding its Anthologies range with four new titles in 2027, as the series approaches sales of 5.5m copies worldwide. 👇

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DK Children’s expands Anthologies series with four titles

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 02/10/2026

Harvill has acquired Guilewright by Minnesota-based author Samantha Lindberg, billed as a ‘Victorian gothic horror-romance’. Publication is scheduled for March 2028.👇

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Harvill snares Samantha Lindberg’s ‘freaky, grotesque’ debut novel

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 02/10/2026

WW Norton will launch a new trade imprint, Norton Waverly, in spring 2027, led by Karen Lotz, who joined the company in September 2025 as director of children’s books and strategic development. 👇

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WW Norton launches new trade imprint Norton Waverly

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 02/10/2026

Stella Giatrakou has been appointed group rights director of Bonnier Books UK’s adult and children’s trade publishing, effective from 1st October. 👇

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Bonnier Books UK appoints Stella Giatrakou to newly created role of group rights director

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 02/10/2026

Picador has promoted Andrea Henry to non-fiction publisher and Sophie Jonathan to fiction publisher following a “record year” for the imprint. Both were previously publishing directors. 👇

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Andrea Henry and Sophie Jonathan promoted to publishers at Picador

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 02/10/2026

Ghostwriting and editorial services firm Kevin Anderson & Associates has appointed Clare Christian as managing director. 👇

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Kevin Anderson & Associates appoints Clare Christian as MD

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 02/10/2026

Canongate will publish Tilda Swinton's memoir, Material Evidence. 👇

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Canongate to publish Tilda Swinton’s memoir

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 02/10/2026

New Writing North literary magazine The Bee is challenging what it describes as a tendency to overlook working-class readers in discussions around the UK’s reading crisis, with a special mini edition distributed with The Bookseller on 2nd October. 👇

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The Bee challenges assumptions about working-class readers in special issue

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 02/10/2026

Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Busby have been appointed patrons of the Black British Book Festival (BBBF). 👇

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Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Busby appointed patrons of Black British Book Festival

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 02/10/2026

St Martin-in-the-Fields was packed to the rafters as several hundred people from the trade celebrated the life of late literary agent Simon Trewin and newly unmasked The Bookseller columnist, Miss Daisy Frost.

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Industry celebrates life of 'magnificent co-conspirator' literary agent Simon Trewin

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 01/10/2026

Hachette Children’s Group has signed a five-book deal with author-illustrator Tom Tinn-Disbury. The first, Professor Llama’s Adventures in Outer Space, will publish in paperback on 2nd September 2027.👇

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Hachette Children’s Group signs five-book Tom Tinn-Disbury deal

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 01/10/2026

Hodderscape has acquired two standalone romantic fantasy novels in the Spellbound Histories Quartet by Isabel Ibañez. The two new books, Ruinous Stars and Murderous Song, will be published in hardback, e-book and audio in 2028 and 2029. 👇

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Hodderscape signs two more in Isabel Ibañez’s Spellbound Histories Quartet

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 01/10/2026

Gallery YA, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Books, has acquired The Line from Me to You, a historical YA debut from journalist, author and editor Sarah Shaffi. The novel will publish as a paperback original on 15th July 2027, marking the 80th anniversary year of the Partition of India. 👇

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Gallery YA acquires Sarah Shaffi’s Partition love story

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 01/10/2026

Bonnier Books UK has appointed Stefanie Bierwerth as publisher-at-large for Zaffre, with Bierwerth due to join the company in December. 👇

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Bonnier Books UK appoints Stefanie Bierwerth publisher-at-large for Zaffre

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 01/10/2026

Guilia De Biase has departed her role as affiliate agent at Nurnberg Milano to found her own literary and film agency, GDB Literary, based in Milan. 👇

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Giulia De Biase leaves Nurnberg Milano to launch film and TV agency GDB Literary

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 01/10/2026

The Bodley Head will publish Yuval Noah Harari’s latest, The Laws of History. It will be published globally by Penguin Random House on 21st September 2027. 👇

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The Bodley Head to publish Yuval Noah Harari’s latest

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 01/10/2026

Faber has acquired a ‘gloriously funny and heartfelt’ coming-of-age young adult romantic comedy from debut author Dee Stevens. A Girl’s Guide to Being a Boy, scheduled for publication in spring 2028. 👇

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Faber wins five-way auction for Knights Of co-founder Dee Stevens’ YA debut

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 01/10/2026

Despite losing the top spot in the NielsenIQ BookScan’s wider Total Consumer Market, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Gruffalo Granny (Macmillan Children’s) has earned a third consecutive week in prime position in the Independent Bookshop Top 20, according to NielsenIQ BookScan’s latest data. 👇

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Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler Gruffa-roll on, with a third straight indie number one

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 01/10/2026

Rebecca Sinclair, president of the Publishers Association and chief brand officer of PRH UK, called for a National Decade of Reading at the Labour Party Conference on Tuesday 29th September. 👇

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PA renews call for National Decade of Reading at Labour Party Conference

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 01/10/2026

Nicholas Boggs, Anand Gopal, Patrick Radden Keefe, Edmund Richardson, Matthew Sweet and Andrea Wulf have been shortlisted for the 2026 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. 👇

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Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction reveals 2026 shortlist

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 30/09/2026

Footnote Press, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has acquired Men I’ve Killed In My Sleep, the second novel from Women’s Prize-longlisted author Saraid de Silva. The novel will publish in April 2028. 👇

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Footnote wins Saraid de Silva’s Men I’ve Killed In My Sleep at auction

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 30/09/2026

Last year's Bookseller Children's Conference helped revolutionise our primary school's reading culture, reports head Sandra Pennington. 👇

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A year on at Birchen Coppice, reading is transformed

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 30/09/2026

DUSK has acquired Ashes for the Evening Star and a sequel from Sophie Clark in a major six-figure global co-publishing deal. Ashes for the Evening Star, Clark’s first adult romantasy, will publish in hardback, e-book and audiobook in 2028, with the sequel following in 2029. 👇

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DUSK acquires Sophie Clark’s adult romantasy duology

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 30/09/2026

Inspired Search & Selection has launched Inspired Executive Coaching, which offers bespoke coaching programmes, features a curated collective of qualified and experienced coaches, and helps organisations and individuals to access specialist coaching tailored to their specific needs and goals. 👇

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Inspired launches coaching business for publishing and creative industry leaders

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 30/09/2026

Six titles that celebrate “newness of many different kinds” have been shortlisted for this year’s £10,000 Goldsmith’s prize. 👇

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Goldsmiths Prize 2026 shortlist celebrates ‘newness of many different kinds’

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 30/09/2026

The closely-kept secret of the identity of Miss Daisy Frost, junior agent and The Bookseller gossip columnist, is finally revealed. 👇

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One last revelation from Miss Daisy Frost

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 30/09/2026

Hachette Children’s Group will publish Heartstopper: The Mini-Comics by Alice Oseman, featuring two previously unseen original mini-comics alongside existing fan favourites. The full-colour hardback will publish on HCG’s Tempest imprint on 7th September 2027. 👇

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Hachette Children’s Group announces Heartstopper: The Mini-Comics

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 30/09/2026

Six books have been awarded Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Awards 2026/27, a development programme for writers who “have a big idea for a book about health and being human”. 👇

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Six ‘exceptional’ writers win Wellcome Collection Non-fiction Awards 2026/27

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 30/09/2026

Denise Bates, group publishing director for adult publishing at The Quarto Group, is to step down later this year to pursue new projects within and beyond publishing. 👇

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Quarto adult publishing director Denise Bates to step down

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 30/09/2026

Cherise Saywell has been named as the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2026 for Ditto. 👇

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BBC National Short Story Award 2026 winner named as Cherise Saywell

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 30/09/2026

Little, Brown has apologised to independent bookshops who have not yet received their orders of the latest book by Rebecca Yarros, which was published on 29th September. 👇

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Threshing Day? Little, Brown ‘extremely sorry’ as new Fourth Wing book fails to land at indies

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 29/09/2026

Charles Spencer’s tell-all book about his sister Princess Diana’s life – and death – has flown straight to the top of the Official UK Top 50, according to NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM). 👇

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Hey big Spencer: Princess Diana’s Swan Song lands in first place

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 29/09/2026

Renowned Australian writer Helen Garner chats to The Bookseller about her latest non-fiction book The Season, which she describes as a ‘little hymn to life’ 👇

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Renowned Australian writer Helen Garner’s latest non-fiction book is a ‘little hymn to life’

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 29/09/2026

Breaking News: Katie Espiner has been named chief executive of Hachette UK as the current CEO, David Shelley, becomes executive chair of Hachette UK and Hachette Book Group. Shelley also takes up a new role as global advisor to the CEO and deputy CEO of Hachette Livre. 👇

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Katie Espiner made CEO of Hachette UK as David Shelley becomes executive chair

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 29/09/2026

Viking has pre-empted Kit Haggard's “mind-bending speculative fiction debut”. Hardback publication is scheduled for June 2027 in the UK and US.👇

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Viking pre-empts Kit Haggard's 'mind-bending speculative fiction debut'

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 29/09/2026

Profile (@profilebooks.bsky.social) will publish Born of the River, Daniel Everett’s insight into the life of “those who live – and have always lived – in the Amazon”. Profile will publish the book in autumn 2027. 👇

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Profile to publish Daniel Everett’s insight into the life of those who live in the Amazon

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 29/09/2026

Picador has acquired The Hollow Ground, the first crime novel from Evie Wyld, and a second novel in a significant two-book pre-empt. Picador will publish The Hollow Ground in 2028. 👇

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Picador pre-empts Evie Wyld’s first crime novel in two-book deal

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 29/09/2026

Farshore is to publish a new illustrated book from Louise Greig, telling the story of the rose from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic 1943 novel, The Little Prince, illustrated by debut illustrator Karlotta Freier. The Rose’s Story will publish on 12th August 2027. 👇

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Farshore to publish Louise Greig's telling of the rose's story from The Little Prince

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 29/09/2026

Tia Fisher speaks to The Bookseller about her first historical fiction novel for middle-grade readers: Operation Doodlebug, a new gripping wartime adventure. 👇

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YA author Tia Fisher pens a wartime adventure

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 29/09/2026

Mantle, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, has acquired Christabel, the new novel by Kate Morton. Set to be published as a lead hardback on 6th April 2027. 👇

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Mantle snaps up Kate Morton’s Christabel

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 29/09/2026

"[Getting published] can feel like choosing a five-star hotel for its swimming pool, spa and concierge, only to discover after checking in that your room doesn’t include access to any of them – while from your window you can see the other guests frolicking in the water." Read the full comment 👇

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Who holds publishers to their promises?

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 29/09/2026

Ladybird has won a seven-way auction for author-illustrator Ana Stretcu’s debut in a three-book deal. The first book, Broccoli Doesn’t Like You Either, designed by James Stevens, art director at Ladybird, will publish in paperback in July 2027, with two picture books to follow in 2028 and 2029. 👇

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Ladybird wins seven-way auction for author-illustrator Ana Stretcu's debut

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Mackay’s debut novel Gloam (@rocktheboatnews.bsky.social) has won two prizes at the Week Junior Book Awards 2026, taking both the Breakthrough and Audiobook awards. 👇

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Jack Mackay’s Gloam wins two Week Junior Book Awards

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