Bestselling authors

This has been the summer of Colleen Hoover, a recent viral TikTok announced, editing together clips of young women at the beach reading books by the Texas novelist. Furthermore, just a couple of months ago we had a Colleen Hoover spring and before that a Colleen Hoover winter and before that a Colleen Hoover fall.  Read more

American horror novelist Stephen King is taking on a new monster: corporate consolidation.

The author was the star witness in an anti-trust trial to block the two biggest US publishers' $2.2bn merger.

The US Department of Justice called on King to testify about how the proposed tie-up of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster could affect authors.

The bestselling novelists are friends and fans of each other's work. They talk frankly about the highs of writing and the lows of addiction - and why neither of them would do Strictly

When George Saunders went out to his writing shed to start a Substack newsletter last fall, for the first time in a long time, the Booker Prize-winning novelist, famous for such works as Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December, didn't know what he was doing. "I'll just write 80 posts and then take a vacation," he thought to himself.  Read more

Julia Donaldson pictured above has extended her seemingly unstoppable record-setting run of earning eight figures through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market. The £14.1m that the Gruffalo co-creator chalked up in 2021 is the 12th year on the trot she has eclipsed £10m, as she claimed the bestselling author in Britain crown for the second year in a row.  Read more