Book sales surge as self-isolating readers buy `bucket list´ novels
(The Guardian Books News)

Paperback fiction sales rose by 35% last week, with a notable interest in challenging classicsBook sales have leapt across the country as readers find they have extra time on their hands, with bookshops reporting a significant increase in sales of longer novels and classic fiction.In the week the UK´s biggest book chain, Waterstones, finally shut its stores after staff complained that they felt at risk from the coronavirus, its online sales were up by 400% week on week. It reported a `significant uplift` on classic - and often timely - titles including Gabriel García Márquez´s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Toni Morrison´s Beloved, F Scott Fitzgerald´s The Great Gatsby and Sylvia Plath´s The Bell Jar. Continue reading...