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Autumn 2016: New titles published from July to December
ith close to 8,000 titles, the autumn 2016 edition of The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide is the most comprehensive review of the UK books market available today. The Buyer’s Guide is an essential tool to help inform
booksellers’ and librarians’ buying decisions and an essential product for publishers to promote their forthcoming titles to book buyers in the UK and overseas. This biannual directory of new titles covers all formats and genres— barring children’s books, which are in the accompanying The Bookseller Children’s Buyer’s Guide—published between July and December this year. A key part of the guide is our highlights section written by The Bookseller in-house Books team. Cathy Rentzenbrink gives her views on the second half of the year in fiction (page 6). She reports that once again the autumn season is dominated by the big hitters with new titles from Jeffrey Archer, Jilly Cooper, Kate Saunders, Zadie Smith and Jonathan Safran-Foer: “There’s always more fiction in the first half of the year as publishers worry—with due cause—that quieter novels will get lost in the onslaught of Christmas.” Non-fiction starts on page 12, and Caroline Sanderson notes that autumn is
as varied as one could wish for with some notable traits: “Autobiographies by celebrities continue to cede territory to Instagrammers and YouTubers with the diverse personalities of Estée Lalonde, Jack & Jack, Niomi Smart, Danny MacAskill, Zanna Van Dijk, Chaz Hutton, Dan Bilzarian and Deliciously Stella all attempting to transition their appeal into book form.” There are also some strong biographies with a musical background, most notably those of David Bowie, Brian Wilson of Beach Boy fame and The Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen. However, the trend of the season is straight off the Scandi-wagon: hygge. A Danish word of Norwegian origin, it is variously defined as “the art of creating intimacy” or “cosiness of the soul”, so be prepared. As always, any feedback you have is welcomed at:
buyers.guide@bookseller.
co.uk. Thank you, and we hope the guide provides an essential resource for your buying decisions over the next six months.
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