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Group rights director Tracy Phillips explained: âIn response to declining literacy rates across the world, our customers have been asking us for lower word counts and more highly illustrated books, often in full colour.â
Jo Harkin (Knopf) This Tudor-era historical novel is drawing comparisons to âWolf Hall.â In 1480, John Collan is a peasant boy living in the English countryside when a man from London comes to town and claims that the 10-year-old is actually Lambert Simnel, the son of a duke and the rightful heir to the throne.
Sheâs just trying to bag a promotion, pay for her wedding, and navigate life as a Black woman in a white male-dominated profession.
âAva explores humanityâs relationship with nature and climate catastrophe, blending ecological themes with dystopian messages in a way that feels both intimate and urgent.
Dietary supplements like fatty15 donât have to undergo the same rigorous testing as prescription drugs, but Venn-Watson assures that ânumerous safety studies and two controlled clinical trials have shown no negative side effects.â
Claire Baglinâs âpiercing first novelâ On the Clock (Daunt), translated by Jordan Stump, examines âthe toll that backbreaking, labour-intensive, low-wage work takes on those who do it,â wrote Lucy Scholes at the Telegraph.
In 2024, approximately 700 independent bookshops participated with the Booksellers Association, via Books Are My Bag, providing each with a kit containing bunting, posters, bookmarks, postcards and shelf strips â alongside a suite of digital assets available in English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish.
Actor Jessie Buckley is recording a new audiobook of Maggie OâFarrellâs novel Hamnet, to be released in May, and Tinder Press are republishing the authorâs backlist with new jackets to mark 25 years of her publishing.
âFor the first time in decades, Jewishâ Americans were starting to hear and be subject to stereotypes and slander, that Jews were secretly powerful and domineering, that they were racist oppressors, exerting undue influence on politics and media, with our money and privilege,â he writes.
Tombeâs name resonates with the darkness of the ice house, which may have held corpses, and his presence triggers sexual jealousy within the group, though Sam, immune to his charms, notes his complete lack of self doubt and the âmocking edgeâ of his charisma.
Tom Tivnan, The Booksellerâs managing editor and founder of the Rising Stars, said: âAs we lurch headlong into 2025, the book trade is facing difficult challenges; at least one, AI, is borderline existential.
But Sittenfeld gently reminds us that, considering the chaotic past decade, where death, catastrophe and complex political issues have dominated American lives, fear and anxiety are an entirely reasonable emotional response.