Cold snap may help internet retailers

Booksellers in parts of the country suffered a dramatic drop in footfall this week as the UK was hit by unexpectedly early and harsh winter weather.Disruption is...

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World Book Night finalises giveaway list

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Pricing and DRM dominate FutureBook 2010...

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November sales down, but Random top

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The search begins

NAW starts the hunt for creative writers the trade can actually publish, and sell.

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27th November
  1. Jamie's 30-minute Meals Oliver, Jamie
  2. Guinness World Records -
  3. A Simples Life Orlov, Aleksandr
  4. Kitchen Lawson, Nigella
  5. Life and Laughing McIntyre, Michael
  6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth Kinney, Jeff
  7. Life Richards, Keith
  8. What You See Is What You Get Sugar, Alan
  9. The Fry Chronicles Fry, Stephen
  10. The Winter Ghosts Mosse, Kate
  11. One Day Nicholls, David
  12. The Last 10 Seconds Kernick, Simon
  13. Beano Annual -
  14. An Idiot Abroad Pilkington, Karl
  15. Worst Case Patterson/Ledwidge
  16. House Rules Picoult, Jodi
  17. Through My Eyes Cole, Cheryl
  18. Twelve Days of Christmas Ashley, Trisha
  19. A Mistletoe Kiss Flynn, Katie
  20. Sister Lupton, Rosamund

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An untapped market

Take a roll call of top books and writers from the past decade or so and South Asians or British Asians certainly seem to punch above their...

Rise in the polls

When Random House published my extracted diaries, The Blair Years, in 2007, the feeling was that political books did not really work....

Southern comfort

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Echoes of the past

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Scorpia Rising

Strictly embargoed 31 March 2011

A dark and shocking conclusion to the bestselling Alex Rider missions. This gripping final mission brings together Alex Rider's old enemies to frame the teenage superspy in an unstoppable plot of revenge, from which he can never return. Pursued from Europe to North Africa and Cairo's city of the dead – this is the twistiest and most deadly plot of any Alex Rider mission yet, and will reveal Smithers' ultimate gadget and see the shock death of a major character.

Dante In Love

A. N. Wilson 1 June 2011

In Dante in Love, Andrew Wilson illuminates the life and loves of Dante Alighieri, the city which inspired and rejected him, and the young woman who filled his dreams.

The Complete Vegetable Grower

John Harrison 24 March 2011

The Complete Vegetable Grower contains, in one comprehensive full-colour volume, all John’s tips and tried-and-tested methods for successful vegetable growing