Lauren Brown

“I want to explore the ways in which I can defamiliarise, to get us out of our normalised way of thinking”

Publishers have told The Bookseller that BookTok and beautiful editions, “the joy of discovery” and the need to diversify in a “risk averse market”, going beyond “constantly looking for trends” and offering readers curation in a crowded marketplace, is driving appetite for both well-loved and unearthed classics.

Late payments reform and incoming EU deforestation regulation are key areas of focus, industry figures tell The Bookseller.

The bestselling author of Pine’s second novel, Bluff, is a story told across two timelines, in a fictional Scottish town full of secrets.

Neil MacInnes, head of libraries, galleries and culture at Manchester City Libraries, talks to The Bookseller about what drives the award-winning service.

In August, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) launched the Intellectual Freedom Committee to help library professionals “counter the disturbing effects of censorship”.

Ahead of the National Year of Reading, founder and creative director of The Reading Agency, Debbie Hicks, asks the trade to ‘redefine what we mean by reading’.

How deeply rooted is ageism in the workplace? And what can HR professionals do to change the status quo? Lauren Brown reports.

Publishers are noting a shift in industry mindset around short stories as readers embrace shorter works, with a number feeling like “something is slowly shifting” and that “there’s a real excitement around stories again”.

Low quality AI books “risk harming consumer confidence”, the Publishers Association (PA) has said after comedian Rhys James shared online that he had found a number of “AI slop versions” of his upcoming memoir You’ll Like It When You Get There: A Life Lived Reluctantly for sale on Amazon.

The first adult novel from the US author, eight years in the writing, tells a multigenerational story set in the fictional town of Bonhomie.

The award-winning author on the mischievous protagonist of her new novel, Helm – a Cumbrian wind whose days could be numbered.