A round-up of the most read stories of the past week on The Bookseller:

1. Children's author Babette Cole dies
2. 'The Guyliner' Justin Myers pens two novels for Little, Brown
3. Jenny Colgan review sparks social media storm
4. Editors call time on clean eating 'fad' (£)
5. British music writer Mark Fisher dies aged 48
6. Pearson to sell its stake in Penguin Random House
7. Fallon admits 'we got it wrong' as Pearson shares plunge
8. Obama names books which helped his presidency
9. A year in review: Huge surge completes Pan Mac push into fourth (£)
10. A year in review: Famous five pull clear at top (£)