INTRODUCTION
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction Spring/Summer 2024
A preview of new titles published between February 2024–July 2024
Using the Buyer’s Guides
The titles listed in the Spring/Summer 2024 Buyer’s Guide are divided into categories, with sub-divisions according to format and age range where appropriate. Within each category, the entries are listed under the publishers’ imprints, which have been ordered alphabetically. All the books included
were submitted by publishers via the online database (Bookseller
BuyersGuide.co.uk). Regardless of size, publishers were restricted to submitting 10 titles and/or series per category/imprint, and given a 30-word limit to describe each title. If a title is an audiobook or has an audio edition, it is stated in the title’s metadata. Other formats are as
follows: hb (hardback); pb (paperback); tpb (trade paperback); pbo (paperback original); mmpb (mass-market paperback); eb (e-book).
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ast year was a milestone for fiction in the UK, as sales crossed the half a billion pound mark for the first time (£503m) through Nielsen BookScan. This is in a context of the huge upswing in sales over the past few years, helped directly by the BookTok boom and somewhat obliquely by lockdown restrictions. Whatever the reasons, it’s a boom time: the print fiction market has increased by a whopping £150m over where it was in the last pre-pandemic year. It is interesting how a big driver is in genres like
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance and Horror (which all had record years in 2023). Go back a decade and many bricks and mortar booksellers were wondering whether those categories were permanently lost to digital. But print has regained a primacy, particularly in Sciencer Fiction & Fantasy with bespoke and collectible editions. And the first half of 2024 looks to be a corker for SFF. January ended with romantasy queen Sarah J Maas’ much-anticipated newest, and social media is aflame with fans clamouring for upcoming
releases such as Jay Kristoff’s second Empire of the Vampire title and the (at this writing) just announced collaboration between China Miéville and Keanu Reeves.
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