Deborah James’s second and final book tops Amazon chart ahead of publication

The columnist and podcaster’s How to Live When You Could Be Dead is out in August heads the bestsellers listPre-orders of Deborah James’s second book have soared within days of it becoming available. The podcast host’s memoir-cum-self-help volume is topping the Amazon UK bestsellers list, ahead of Richard Osman’s popular crime novel The Man Who Died Twice.The publication of How to Live When You Could Be Dead was brought forward this week, after the news that the author hasn’t long to live. It will now come out in August, rather than January next year, as first planned. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2022-05-19 11:47:24 UTC ]
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Oxford University Press has signed husband-and-wife team Naomi and James Jones' debut picture book in a five-figure deal.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Amazon Charts: Secret Commonwealth steams into number one

Philip Pullman's The Secret Commonwealth (Penguin/David Fickling) has soared 15 places to top the Amazon Charts Most-Sold: Fiction chart, in the same week it sold 54,301 copies in hardback through Nielsen BookScan's TCM. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Marlon James named National Book Award finalist

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Pullman's The Secret Commonwealth tops chart of Super Thursday successes

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How Reese’s Book Club Is Keeping Hello Sunshine on Top: Critical Linking, September 26, 2019

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Amazon Charts: Cameron scoops number one

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Cameron joins Testaments at top of bestseller chart

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‘Catcher in the Rye’ is finally going to be an e-book. Here’s why it took so long

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