The programme for our #FutureBook conference has been revealed 📣 Highlights include campaign director of the National Year of Reading David Hayman and a case study with Hugo Rayne, European head of sales at ElevenLabs 💡 Find out more here 👉 tinyurl.com/494x6xn5

It's time to take the lead on tomorrow with the #FutureBook programme! This year’s line-up features leading voices shaping the future of publishing ⚡ Explore the full programme here 👉 tinyurl.com/494x6xn5

ICYMI: A judge’s ruling that legal action by authors against OpenAI for copyright infringement can go ahead reveals the “the ease with which generative AI can devastate the market,” according to the Publishers Association 👇 #BookSky

Lucent Dreaming will be restructuring "on its own terms" due to financial struggles and will not be reapplying for Books Council of Wales’ new longer-term core funding grants 👇 #BookSky

Headline Welbeck has acquired Tank Command: How the Tank Changed the Face of Battle, a 'gripping' book about the evolution of tank warfare by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon 👇 #BookSky

ICYMI: The Oxford University Press has begun a collective consultation process, which The Bookseller understands, if approved, would result in 113 redundancies 👇 #BookSky

The first month of 2026 is replete with literary and commercial fiction, crime and thrillers, biographies, history and self-help books that will aid entry to a new year full of uncertainty, says Will Smith 👇 #BookSky

ICYMI: Autumn Publishing has acquired three picture books, which are set to be narrated on the Channel 5 Milkshake! Story Den segment in episodes throughout the next three years 👇 #BookSky

At first glance, it is tempting to believe that the reason Fawlty Towers: Fawlts & All’s has secured the Independent Bookshop Top 20 number one is renewed interest following the death of Sybil Fawlty actress Prunella Scales in October 👇 #BookSky

Autumn Publishing has acquired three picture books, which are set to be narrated on the Channel 5 Milkshake! Story Den segment in episodes throughout the next three years 👇 #BookSky

Daphne Press has acquired Cassandra Clare’s Secrets of Blackthorn Hall and the novella A Sea Change. The books will be published in spring 2026 👇 #BookSky

Zaffre has pre-empted Raphael Monte's ''dark and provocative" thriller in a two-book deal. Secret Dinner will be published in 6th August 2026 👇 #BookSky

Non-traditional book projects can help writers and illustrators diversify and get paid, says Oisín McGann in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky

Wildfire is set to publish International Booker Prize shortlisted author Ia Genberg's "dazzling" experimental novel, translated by Kira Josefsson. Small Comfort is set for publication in April 2026 👇 #BookSky

Fig Tree has acquired Nights Out in the Kitchen: More Recipes and Stories from a Restaurant Critic’s Life by Jay Rayner, the follow up to his bestselling cookbook Nights Out at Home. Fig Tree will publish the book in September 2026 👇 #BookSky

John Murray One has acquired Lily Silverton’s "compassionate and life-changing" new book, Prioritise This 👇 #BookSky

The Oxford University Press has begun a collective consultation process, which The Bookseller understands, if approved, would result in 113 redundancies 👇 #BookSky

Jacaranda Books founder and CEO Valerie Brandes and Methuen Drama senior publisher Dom O’Hanlon are among the Publishers Association’s People of Publishing 2025. Read more here 👉 ebx.sh/dE4eA5

Editor, translator and agent Faith Evans, a co-founder of the Women in Publishing group, died on 30th October, aged 83.

Jonathan Cape has ordered reprints for 150,000 copies of David Szalay’s Booker-winning novel, Flesh, The Bookseller understands 👇 #BookSky

A judge’s ruling that legal action by authors against OpenAI for copyright infringement can go ahead reveals the “the ease with which generative AI can devastate the market,” according to the Publishers Association 👇 #BookSky

ICYMI: When it comes to engaging young people through fiction, authenticity is all, says Gemma Jolly in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky

ICYMI: Storm Publishing has promoted Kathryn Taussig to publisher and director of global ventures 👇 #BookSky

ICYMI: Fox & Ink Books has acquired When We Were Divided, an “expertly crafted,” and “beautifully sensitive” adult historical fiction debut novel by award-winning author Liz Flanagan. When We Were Divided will be published in paperback in February 2026 👇 #BookSky

The 30th instalment in the Jack Reacher series from Lee and Andrew Child has debuted in first place in the Official UK Top 50, according to the latest data from NielsenIQ BookScan’s TCM 👇 #BookSky

Storm Publishing has promoted Kathryn Taussig to publisher and director of global ventures 👇 #BookSky

Magic Cat is publishing Under the Olive Moon, a book of Palestinian fables co-authored by Nour Ferwana and best-selling author Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara. The book will publish in October 2026 👇 #BookSky

Fox & Ink Books has acquired When We Were Divided, an “expertly crafted,” and “beautifully sensitive” adult historical fiction debut novel by award-winning author Liz Flanagan. When We Were Divided will be published in paperback in February 2026 👇 #BookSky

When it comes to engaging young people through fiction, authenticity is all, says Gemma Jolly in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky

Storm Publishing is set to publish the Kindle Unlimited series, Body Count, written by dark romance author Jolie Vines. The first book in the series, Arran’s Obsession, will be published in the first half of 2026 👇 #BookSky

Catch up on our interview from January with Booker Prize 2025 winner David Szalay 👇

David Szalay’s Flesh has become the second Jonathan Cape title to win the Booker Prize in a row and the first British-Hungarian author to ever win the £50,000 prize 👇

The Scottish Library and Information Council has called for “urgent sustained development” to help secure the future of Scotland’s libraries 👇 #BookSky

Europa Editions has acquired Night of a Thousand Hells by Indonesian author Intan Paramaditha, translated by Stephen Epstein and Tiffany Tsao 👇 #BookSky

ICYMI: Andrew Miller’s The Land in Winter is by far the Booker Prize 2025’s leader at the tills heading into tonight’s ceremony, having generated over half of the six-strong contenders’ unit-sales during the shortlist period, and 45% of the sextet’s value 👇

ICYMI: I was just acting in my drama class, I grew up on a council estate, this doesn’t happen to people like me, says Speakies shortlistee Michael Ajao 👇 #BookSky

Icon has acquired Chronic: Understanding Pain by Gillian Best. The book will be published in March 2026 👇 #BookSky

ICYMI: Salt Publishing has acquired Wash, a “richly imagined and intimate” “anti-biography” by the award-winning author and critic Erica Wagner. Wash will be published in May 2026 👇 #BookSky

ICYMI: Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, is returning with a second spooky stories spin-off, Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2, scheduled for publication on 11th August 2026 👇 #BookSky

Anthony Hopkins’ “gimlet-eyed autobiography” We Did Ok, Kid (Simon & Schuster) was reviewed by Ed Poulton in the Times who commented that “this is not one of those memoirs in which the subject’s talent dazzles from the off” 👇 #BookSky

Ladybird has acquired A House Made of Books, the debut picture book by author-illustrator Frankie Gritton. A House Made of Books will be published in August 2026 👇 #BookSky

Head of Zeus, part of Bloomsbury Publishing, is publishing three new novels from historical fantasy author Shauna Lawless 👇 #BookSky

Salt Publishing has acquired Wash, a “richly imagined and intimate” “anti-biography” by the award-winning author and critic Erica Wagner. Wash will be published in May 2026 👇 #BookSky

Northumberland-based author and publisher Stuart Wheatman has launched Third Iteration, a new independent publishing house centring "honest, human stories" 👇 #BookSky

I was just acting in my drama class, I grew up on a council estate, this doesn’t happen to people like me, says Speakies shortlistee Michael Ajao 👇 #BookSky

Hutchinson Heinemann has signed The Given World, the fourth novel by Melissa Harrison, the award-winning author of All Among the Barley. Publication is scheduled for May 2026 👇 #BookSky

Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, is returning with a second spooky stories spin-off, Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2, scheduled for publication on 11th August 2026 👇 #BookSky

Quadrille has acquired Chocolate Baking by Edd Kimber. The book will be published in the UK on 31st March 👇 #BookSky

Thinking aphoristically comes in handy when AI promises to make us look like we know what we’re doing while decreasing our cognitive loads to zero, says James Geary in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky

Brazen, the literary imprint founded in 2021 by Romilly Morgan under Anna Bond at Octopus Publishing Group, has appointed Ella Gordon as editorial director 👇 #BookSky