UK's best-loved authors launch book sale fundraiser for Syria

Hilary Mantel, Salman Rushdie and David Nicholls among writers donating sales from £1m worth of bestsellers to Waterstones migration crisis appeal

A host of the UK’s bestselling authors are coming together to raise money for Syrian refugees, as writers including Hilary Mantel, Salman Rushdie and David Nicholls sign up to forgo earnings from their best-selling books to raise £1m.

From Thursday, whenever one of the donated paperbacks is sold, Waterstones will give the full retail price to Oxfam’s Syria crisis appeal. Titles including the Booker winners Wolf Hall and Midnight’s Children, David Nicholls’s huge bestseller One Day, Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book will not earn a penny for authors, publishers or the bookselling chain.

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