ICYMI: It is a fortnight to the day since Thélyson Orélien was accused by the then anonymous X account Balance ton Claude of having written most of his award-winning novel C’était ça ou mourir (It Was That or Die) by generative AI – but this has not dented sales. 👇

ICYMI: The sinister story of the vanishing queer books: Tech giants are enabling censorship by letting queer books slip out of view, writes author Mo Fanning. 👇

ICYMI: The Booker Prize Foundation is joining up with the University of East Anglia (UEA) on a new creative writing scholarship, in honour of the foundation’s former company secretary Eve Smith. 👇

ICYMI: Bloomsbury has acquired two thrillers by Catherine Ryan Howard, Ordinary Monster and a second as-yet-untitled novel. Ordinary Monster will be a major lead title for Bloomsbury’s crime imprint, publishing in July 2027. 👇

ICYMI: Start-up Books By People has registered the UK’s first certification mark for human-authored books with the Intellectual Property Office (IPO). 👇

Century has won the debut thriller by award-winning children’s author Katya Balen in a five-publisher auction. The Admission will be published as a Century lead in hardback, e-book and audiobook in spring 2028. 👇

Penguin Michael Joseph (PMJ) has fallen for two new romance authors, Giovanna Lennox and Miles Lawson. PMJ has done deals for Lennox’s The Love Hack and Lawson’s Daddy Issues. 👇

Bonnier Books UK has appointed Liza Cooper as senior brand manager across its Children’s Group, including Igloo, in a newly created role reporting to managing director Anna Bond. 👇

Jonathan Cape has acquired All Being Well by Susie Boyt, described as a “deeply moving and wondrously funny exploration of intimacy, grief, love and joy, and all the complex ways people care for each other”, with publication scheduled for autumn 2027. 👇

Brazen, part of the Octopus Publishing Group, has pre-empted Valentina Vapaux’s “implosive, deeply and darkly seductive” novel It Girls, which will publish in spring 2028. 👇

Faber has acquired a “groundbreaking” new “creative project” that “sits across more than one volume” by Eliza Clark, author of Boy Parts, Penance and She’s Always Hungry. The first book is scheduled for publication in 2028 and further volumes scheduled in 2029 and beyond. 👇

Bloomsbury Archer has pre-empted three books from debut author Emma Tueller in a simultaneous acquisition with Bloomsbury US. Imperfect Spells, the first in the series, will be published in 2027. 👇

Belinda Ioni Rasmussen, chief executive officer of Walker Books, said putting processes in place is “incredibly important” in the fight against censorship during a panel at Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) on 8th October. 👇

Ghostwriters have told The Bookseller that commissions are falling as prospective authors experiment with generative AI, while others are increasingly being asked to work on AI-generated manuscripts. 👇

The Royal Society of Literature (@rsliterature.bsky.social) and Hawthornden Foundation have awarded the first £200,000 from their £1m Literature Matters Grants programme to 10 projects across the UK 👇

More than a third of audio listeners globally consumed more spoken-word content in the past year than the year before, according to new research commissioned by Audible 👇

Pavillion has acquired the 13th cookbook from Italian chef, author and television personality Gennaro Contaldo, a “bold” new single-ingredient cookbook, Pomodoro. The cookbook will be published on 6th May 2027 in hardback and e-book format 👇