Authors ask Waterstones to rehire worker fired after tweet about gender-critical writer
Freight expectations: if Booktopia closes, where can I buy books online?
June 2024
Meet the people behind three of the UK’s brilliant independent bookshops
Six ‘bold and playful’ novels shortlisted for Waterstones debut fiction prize
May 2024
Irish poetry publisher toasts new home in pub after crowdfunding campaign
Bookshop and arts centre run by Salmon Poetry is saved from closure after raising more than €60,000 from 700 individuals
February 2024
Sexily ever after: how romance bookstores took over America
Five years ago, there was just one. Now bookshops exclusively stocking romance novels are everywhere – aiming to ‘undo generations of shame’
January 2024
Victoria’s Robinsons Bookshop apologises after owner’s call for more ‘white kids’ on book covers
Susanne Horman’s comments have been ‘taken out of context’ and ‘misrepresented’, business says
December 2023
Murder mystery puzzle book Murdle tops UK Christmas bestseller chart
New business school
Lucy Yu’s thriving New York bookstore burned down. How can she rebuild without burning out?
November 2023
Katherine Rundell wins Waterstones book of 2023 with ‘immediate classic’
Britney Spears memoir helping drive UK book market growth, says WH Smith
August 2023
Alice Winn wins 2023 Waterstones debut fiction prize for In Memoriam
Novel described as ‘truly stunning feat of fiction’ tells love story of two first world war soldiers
‘I can’t stress how much BookTok sells’: teen literary influencers swaying publishers
TikTok recommendations are driving sales and launching authors’ careers as the social media app continues to reshape the industry
Lavender Menace, West & Wilde and other 80s gay literature suppliers were lifesavers
Letter: I was saved by access to LGBTQ+ literature in the anti-gay hostile environment of Thatcher’s Britain, says Vincent Finney
July 2023
‘We hid our stock in case we were raided’: Scotland’s pioneering LGBTQ+ bookshop
Opened two years after the country legalised ‘homosexual acts’, Lavender Menace made a huge impact. Now it has opened a public queer books archive
Waterstones debut fiction prize 2023 shortlist announced
Novels include tales of future gladiators and Vietnamese refugees, a Great War love story, a mystery thriller, and stories of generational trauma and the Troubles
Other lives
Claudia Mason obituary
Other lives: Bookseller and signwriter who lived for many years on a houseboat on the Thames
May 2023
‘A culture, a people, an ethos’: one of the US’s oldest Asian American bookstores closes
As Eastwind Books of Berkeley shutters in California, local residents mourn the loss of a community
April 2023
Lydia Davis refuses to sell her next book on Amazon
UK publishing industry reports record-breaking year in 2022
