'Scary new world': political book sales explode as UK readers seek answers

Year-to-date sales are up 50% according to Waterstones, with Trump exposés and Brexit dissections leading the pack

Political book sales have exploded in politics publishing this year, according to Britain’s largest bookseller, Waterstones. The company attributed the growth to writers and readers “urgently seeking to understand this scary new world”.

The UK bookshop chain, which has more than 280 branches, has sold more politics books this year than in the whole of 2015 or 2016, with year-to-date politics sales up by more than 50%. Across the UK, sales of politics books have already surpassed 2017’s final figure of 1.35m, with 1.41m books sold this year so far, according to Nielsen BookScan.

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