25th September 2026

25th September 2026

Spotlight

Features, interviews and long reads from The Bookseller's insight team; email Tom Tivnan with pitches

Tastemakers: MTLS and Fox Literary founders on their creative synergy

Trade Interviews

Tastemakers: MTLS and Fox Literary founders on their creative synergy

Scouts Mira Trenchard and Sarah Fox on merging their agencies and how relationship-building is a scout’s real superpower.

Frankfurt Book Fair Agents' Hotlists: Messe rejig might mean a tighter fit but rights trade should proceed apace

Frankfurt Book Fair Agents' Hotlists: Messe rejig might mean a tighter fit but rights trade should proceed apace

National Year of Reading: bookshops are leading and reading from the front

National Year of Reading: bookshops are leading and reading from the front

The time has come to deepen disability representation in children’s books

The time has come to deepen disability representation in children’s books

The ballad of reading in gaol: prison libraries are a vital resource

Trade Interviews

The ballad of reading in gaol: prison libraries are a vital resource

Features

Frankfurt Book Fair Agents' Hotlists: Messe rejig might mean a tighter fit but rights trade should proceed apace

Frankfurt Book Fair Agents' Hotlists: Messe rejig might mean a tighter fit but rights trade should proceed apace

Tastemakers: MTLS and Fox Literary founders on their creative synergy

Tastemakers: MTLS and Fox Literary founders on their creative synergy

Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: Agents' Hotlists

Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: Agents' Hotlists

‘Maas’ive demand for ACOTAR midnight launch parties

‘Maas’ive demand for ACOTAR midnight launch parties

A bigger Profile: the indie publisher celebrates another near-record year

Elredo Voice's AI is making publisher backlists worth recording

Elredo Voice's AI is making publisher backlists worth recordingSPONSORED ARTICLE

Trade Interviews

Tastemakers: MTLS and Fox Literary founders on their creative synergy

Tastemakers: MTLS and Fox Literary founders on their creative synergy

The ballad of reading in gaol: prison libraries are a vital resource

The ballad of reading in gaol: prison libraries are a vital resource

Mama makes good: Penny Worms on setting up her early-years publisher

Mama makes good: Penny Worms on setting up her early-years publisher

Helen Mackenzie Smith on 30 years of making picture books

Helen Mackenzie Smith on 30 years of making picture books

Thangam Debbonaire on AI: ‘You have to ask the bigger philosophical question’

Thangam Debbonaire on AI: ‘You have to ask the bigger philosophical question’

Publishing should 'get more involved' with wider media, says CMC's Greg Childs

Publishing should 'get more involved' with wider media, says CMC's Greg Childs

Features

Frankfurt Book Fair Agents' Hotlists: Messe rejig might mean a tighter fit but rights trade should proceed apace

Frankfurt Book Fair Agents' Hotlists: Messe rejig might mean a tighter fit but rights trade should proceed apace

Tastemakers: MTLS and Fox Literary founders on their creative synergy

Tastemakers: MTLS and Fox Literary founders on their creative synergy

Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: Agents' Hotlists

Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: Agents' Hotlists

‘Maas’ive demand for ACOTAR midnight launch parties

‘Maas’ive demand for ACOTAR midnight launch parties

A bigger Profile: the indie publisher celebrates another near-record year

Elredo Voice's AI is making publisher backlists worth recording

Elredo Voice's AI is making publisher backlists worth recordingSPONSORED ARTICLE

Trade Interviews

Tastemakers: MTLS and Fox Literary founders on their creative synergy

Tastemakers: MTLS and Fox Literary founders on their creative synergy

The ballad of reading in gaol: prison libraries are a vital resource

The ballad of reading in gaol: prison libraries are a vital resource

Mama makes good: Penny Worms on setting up her early-years publisher

Mama makes good: Penny Worms on setting up her early-years publisher

Helen Mackenzie Smith on 30 years of making picture books

Helen Mackenzie Smith on 30 years of making picture books

Thangam Debbonaire on AI: ‘You have to ask the bigger philosophical question’

Thangam Debbonaire on AI: ‘You have to ask the bigger philosophical question’

Publishing should 'get more involved' with wider media, says CMC's Greg Childs

Publishing should 'get more involved' with wider media, says CMC's Greg Childs

Rising Stars

The Bookseller's Rising Stars is an annual list of the book industry's up and comers.

Tara Tobler

Tara Tobler

Senior fiction editor

And Other Stories

Eleanor Stammeijer

Eleanor Stammeijer

Head of publicity

Bonnier Books UK

Ally Fir

Ally Fir

Owner & co-founder

The Mysterious Bookcase

Andrea Webb

Andrea Webb

Content creator

Freelance

Lucy Jakes

Lucy Jakes

Children's buyer

Waterstones

All Features

Autumn 2026 deep dive: trends, predictions and the lay of the land

Autumn 2026 deep dive: trends, predictions and the lay of the land

Clash of the titans: earliest-ever Super Thursday to include Julia Donaldson, Jamie Oliver and Richard Osman

Clash of the titans: earliest-ever Super Thursday to include Julia Donaldson, Jamie Oliver and Richard Osman

No10 North: will publishing follow Westminster?

No10 North: will publishing follow Westminster?

Love and money: presenting The Bookseller Rising Stars Class of 2026

Love and money: presenting The Bookseller Rising Stars Class of 2026

Francesca Main on the rise of the Phoenix imprint

Francesca Main on the rise of the Phoenix imprint

How AI is driving more customers than social media for Fox & Fable bookshop

How AI is driving more customers than social media for Fox & Fable bookshop

As the Nosy Crow flies: how the British children’s indie became big in Beijing

As the Nosy Crow flies: how the British children’s indie became big in Beijing

Voices of Today: the new prize aiming to boost Chinese-to-English translation

Voices of Today: the new prize aiming to boost Chinese-to-English translation

Comic Republic CEO Jide Martin on the growth of Africa's biggest graphic-novel company

Comic Republic CEO Jide Martin on the growth of Africa's biggest graphic-novel company

Beijing International Book Fair's Lei Jianhua on what to expect at BIBF 2026

Beijing International Book Fair's Lei Jianhua on what to expect at BIBF 2026

Community, conversation and clarion call: inside Bookbanks' mission to bring books to those in need

Community, conversation and clarion call: inside Bookbanks' mission to bring books to those in need

Andersen Press at 50: Mark Hendle and Charlie Sheppard on continuing Klaus Flugge’s legacy

Andersen Press at 50: Mark Hendle and Charlie Sheppard on continuing Klaus Flugge’s legacy

Most Read

The most popular pages across the site

Hey big Spencer: Princess Diana’s Swan Song lands in first place

Books in the Media: scattered applause for Charles Spencer's memories of Princess Diana

Katie Espiner made CEO of Hachette UK as David Shelley becomes executive chair

Frankfurt Book Fair 2026: Agents' Hotlists

Threshing Day? Little, Brown ‘extremely sorry’ as new Fourth Wing book fails to land at indies

Earl Spencer apologises to Piers Morgan for error in memoir with future editions to be corrected

Frankfurt Book Fair Agents' Hotlists: Messe rejig might mean a tighter fit but rights trade should proceed apace

Two redundancies at Headline Home as imprint restructured

Who holds publishers to their promises?

Former DK Learning executives launch independent publisher

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