A beguiling portrait of the co-founder of AI company Deepmind made the headlines this week, alongside Gwendoline Riley’s latest triumph and Colm Tóibín’s short story collection.

Penguin Michael Joseph has acquired I Am the Devouring Dark, a horror romantasy novel set in a Norse pagan world, by Kimberly Lynn Hanson.

Oneworld has acquired RL Heber’s dark academia thriller, Faculty of Liars, from Nelle Andrew at Rachel Mills Literary, with paperback-original publication on the Point Blank list scheduled for August.

Cara Armstrong is returning to Pavillion as editorial director, joining from DK Living where, over the past three years, she has been responsible for the Food and Drink list.

Cara Armstrong is returning to Pavilion as editorial director, joining from DK Living where, over the past three years, she has been responsible for the Food and Drink list.

Virago has acquired I Choose My Beginning, a “powerful” new memoir by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Nadia Murad.

UK sales were up 4% in 2025, with UK physical sales up 5%, and international sales 7%, The Bookseller can exclusively reveal, with e-book sales growing by 4% and audio by 3%.

Literary agency Janklow & Nesbit has launched the David Bellos Translation Prize, “celebrating outstanding translations of fiction into English and championing global literary voices”.

Tor UK, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, has acquired The Shape of Monsters and A Million Points of Light by author CL Hellisen.

The agents’ hot tips among the runners and riders at the 2026 Bologna Children’s Book Fair The Bookseller ’s Hotlists are ...

Picador has acquired The Opposite of War by Rachel Clarke, who won the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction in 2025 for The Story of ...

Thomas & Mercer has acquired a new series by David J Gatward. The first two books will publish in 2027, with the third ...