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The Football People: the five-a-side squad from The Book People display their trophy after winning the Top Corner Champions Cup on 15th September. The team originally won The Bookseller Fives [...]

Scores were settled and balls were roqueted at Hodder's annual Superhoop croquet championship this week (also in honour of Jasper Fforde) when Foyles beat off historic adversary the Press side [...]

Libraries, publishers and bookshops will suffer under a Conservative government, a leading independent publisher has warned. When collecting the Independent Publisher of the Year trophy at the Bookseller Industry Awards [...]

Those crazy cats at HarperCollins sure know how to par-tay. Following their big win at the 2012 Bookseller Industry Awards, taking home the Publisher of the Year trophy, no less, [...]

The English cricket season gets into full swing next week with the Ashes tournament taking place from 8th July; with Australia battling to keep the trophy, the tournament is as [...]

A focus on children playing competitive football games rather than developing their skills is holding England back from winning an international trophy, a new book has claimed. As the English [...]

Patrick Ness has been awarded the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2008 for his novel The Knife of Never Letting Go. Ness received a cheque for 2,500 £ and a trophy at [...]

HarperCollins triumphed in the 2008 Bookseller Fives football tournament, beating Central Books in the final. But a good day was had by all Trophy time: Matt Accisson of Central Books, [...]

Simon & Schuster has paid a 'good five-figure sum' for two bonkbusters from author Rebecca Chance. Divas will be published as a paperback original in September, with Trophy Wives to [...]

Just what is Gerry Johnson putting in the water in Brentford? Several days after Waterstone's clinched the Plate trophy at The Bookseller Fives, the Waterstone's team won HarperCollins' film quiz. [...]

The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council has launched a new award for public libraries which actively try to engage young people. The Love Libraries Award will recognise--with a trophy and [...]

Chatto's Ruth Warburton won The Bookseller award for hardback fiction at the PPC Annual Awards this week for her campaign for Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise. The PPC Silver Trophy for [...]

As the media gears up to cover England's attempt to retain cricket's Ashes trophy, related titles are receiving plenty of coverage. Know the Score Books' Match of My Life: The [...]

Matt Lucas and David Walliams Little Britain: The Complete Scripts and Stuff: Series Two HarperCollins, October, 14.99 £, 0007198728 With a trophy case full of Baftas, an upcoming tour and [...]

The end of the football season has coincided with substantial deals for three footballers from trophy-winning teams. John Terry and Frank Lampard, from Premiership winners Chelsea, have signed with HarperCollins; [...]

'Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith' is to receive its world premiere on 15th May at the Cannes Film Festival, where director George Lucas will receive the Festival Trophy to [...]

We have a disparate and eclectic offering in this month's preview. Translated fiction abounds, including Grandma Non-Oui, a biographical novel by Macedonian author Lidija Dimkovska, How to Leave the World, [...]

Just as the sun has finally deigned to show its face, I've had mine buried deep in the gothic chills and snowy thrills of October fiction, with its usual hefty [...]

September is traditionally a big month in children's publishing--and although this year doesn't feel quite as bumper as the same period in 2023, there are still some big hitters scheduled [...]

Reconnection is a main theme of this year's Black authors' preview. As mentioned earlier in this issue, Black nature writing is blossoming-demonstrating our desire to reconnect with the natural world [...]

A mixed bag of a week for famous British Moyes-es. West Ham boss David Moyes found out he was being let go at the end of the season, despite bringing [...]

THE BOSSES CATHERINE BELL & STEVE THOMPSON ANDY BIRD ANDRE BREEDT JAMIE BYNG ANNIE CALLANAN MARY CANNAM IAN CHAPMAN AIMEE FELONE ANDREW FRANKLIN ADAM FREUDENHEIM RUTH GILL ALISON GOFF PETER [...]

We are now well under way with previewing 2023 titles and in February the numbers start to ramp up after a quieter few months, with more books being published across [...]

Teenage & YA Ravena Guron This Book Kills Usborne, 5th, 8.99 [pounds sterling], pb, 9781803705415 Usborne won a three-way auction for Guron's slick thriller, which begins with a posh girl [...]

David Walliams and Richard Osman swapped places week on week with Walliams and illustrator Adam Stower's SPACEBOY notching up its first number one, in a seven-day period which also saw [...]

In the strange, dead days between Christmas and new year, I spoke to Holly Jackson over video call, ahead of the April publication of her fifth Young Adult novel, The [...]

Midway through the publishing year already, and June brings a crop of all-age celebrity memoirs; from 22-year-old Molly-Mae Hague's Becoming Molly-Mae to 89-year-old Sheila Hancock's Old Rage, which sounds wonderfully [...]

Adventure and excitement are some of the themes that emerge from the children's books coming in July, and these words perfectly sum up Anna Fargher's Delta and the LostCity, a [...]

David Walliams and Tony Ross' Megamonster has clawed its way to the top for a fourth week running, selling 23,401 copies through Nielsen BookScan's TCM. The title achieves Walliams and [...]

A healthy, verdant glow of late spring paperbacks arrives in May. Literary fiction flowers forth abundantly, with eagerly awaited paperback arrivals including Booker winner Paul Lynch's ProphetSong, Paul Murray's acclaimed [...]

Suddenly On Sheaf Street in Daventry (pictured above left) was named the winner of the 2024 National Book Tokens Newcomer of the Year Award. The bookshop won a hamper to [...]

Arsene Wenger's My Life in Red and White has hit the Official UK Top 50 number one, wrenching the overall top spot from the rubber-gloved hands of Mrs Hinch. Wenger's [...]

Whatever else this year has turned upside down, October remains the biggest month for non-fiction in the publishing calendar. The 1st looks the prime candidate for Super Thursday, though 15th [...]

Tuck into some grits, crank up the Lynyrd Skynyrd and set yo'self down on the verandah with a mint julep, y'all, as the Southern US of A is the major [...]

Guinness World Records 2023 has thundered to the top of the Small Publishers' bestseller chart for 2022, having sold 320,897 copies since its publication in mid-September. While its publisher is [...]

Hallowe'en is increasingly important in every retailer's calendar and for booksellers, its popularity has grown far beyond children's books. My pick of the dark and disturbing reads this month is [...]

It's July in paperback land, so summer reading is here in force. There is tonnes of commercial fiction out this month (please press my Book of the Month, Professor Chandra [...]

At the time of writing, the UK seems on the brink of crashing out of the EU, quite possibly without a deal. Dispiriting to say the very least, but there [...]

I've seldom seen a theme embraced by publishers quite as heartily as the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. From picture books to nonfiction, literally dozens of [...]

Ted Kooser below left and Connie Wanek have won the CLPE Children's Poetry Award (CLiPPA) for Marshmallow Clouds (Walker Books), illustrated by Richard Jones. The winners were announced by judge [...]

It feels like something of a full-circle moment when I sit down to talk with Aimee Felone almost exactly five years after she spoke to me about her plans to [...]

The British Book Awards has revealed the regional and country winners for the 2023 Independent Bookshop of the Year Award, featuring victors including London's Nomad Books and The Edinburgh Bookshop [...]

There used to be a feature in the Guardian called Wyse Words, an invented glossary by the humourist and cartoonist Pascal Wyse. One entry that sticks in the memory is [...]

DAVID W ALLIAMS ' THE World's Worst Children 2 has, of course, gone straight to the UK Official Top 50 number one. Selling 58,617 copies for 423,282 [pounds sterling], the [...]

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY has mosied into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, with The Clever Guts Diet selling 19,302 copies for 101,156 [pounds sterling], according to Nielsen BookScan's [...]

If I were to look back over eight years of introductions to New Titles Fiction I would probably find I write this every January, but even so, I cannot remember [...]

Almost 63% of authors and illustrators responding to a quick-fire survey from The Bookseller this week said they had seen a fall in income in pandemic-hit 2020 compared with 2019, [...]

Orion took Publisher of the Year at this year's British Book Awards, its imprint Gollancz also scooped a prize, while Bloomsbury, Nosy Crow and Moon Lane all enjoyed double wins--with [...]

Douglas Stuart above has received a Golden Pan award from his publishers Pan Macmillan, as sales of his debut novel Shuggie Bain (Picador) reached a million across all formats, including [...]

The British Book Awards has revealed the regional and country winners for the 2022 Independent Bookshop of the Year Award, featuring returning winners including The Haslemere Bookshop and London's Burley [...]