Morning News with The Bookseller

Pratchett’s Shepherd retains chart crown Terry Pratchett has held the Official Top 50 number one for a second week, as The Shepherd’s Crown (Doubleday Children’s) sold 27,386 copies, worth £318,576, through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market.

Faulks on tour for latest novel A Simon Mayo Book Club selection, a Telegraph Media partnership, and the author's biggest events programme in recent years are all components of the push behind Sebastian Faulks' new novel Where My Heart Used to Beat, published by Hutchinson tomorrow (10th September). The book tells the story of Robert Hendricks, an English doctor, forced to confront the events of his earlier life - including, crucially, what happened on the Western Front during the second world war.

Bookseller Armstrong marks 50 years at Foyles Foyles staff gathered to mark the service of bookseller Giles Armstrong yesterday (8th September), who is celebrating 50 years of working at the retailer. Armstrong, who is manager of the Foreign Languages Department at Foyles Charing Cross Road, joined the company  in 1965, when it was run by Christina Foyle. The 74-year-old was yesterday joined by his family, fellow colleagues and Christopher Foyle on the fifth floor gallery at Foyles Charing Cross Road to mark the achievement.

Film rights sold for O’Neill's Only Ever Yours Production company Killer Content has acquired the film rights to Louise O’Neill’s award winning YA novel Only Ever Yours.

S&S to publish Broad's account of Ashes victory Simon & Schuster is to publish a new book, Broadside, from Ashes bowling “hero”, Stuart Broad. S&S acquired world rights for the title from Neil Fairbrother at International Sports Management.

Palin plans 17-city tour Michael Palin will go on a 17-city tour to mark the release of the paperback edition of his latest diaries. The Thirty Years Tour, which begins on 24th September in Gateshead, will be a “celebration of diary writing and will look back over the three decades covered by all his diaries”. Last year Palin went on tour for the hardback release of Travelling to Work (Orion). The paperback is released on the first day of his tour, and at each tour venue a local bookshop will be selling signed copies of the book.

FutureBook Conference offers "different range of voices" The FutureBook Conference will take place on 4th December, with keynote speeches from Faber c.e.o. Stephen Page, Pottermore chief executive Susan Jurevics, and Springer Nature's chief scientific officer Annette Thomas. There will be a week of events leading up to the conference, announced at a launch event on 7th September. This year will be the sixth FutureBook Conference, Dan Franklin, digital publisher at Penguin Random House, was among the attendees at the first event in 2010.

Tel wins Commonwealth Short Story prize Writer Jonathan Tel has been crowned the overall winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for The Human Phonograph. The Human Phonograph is about a woman who is reunited with her geologist husband at a remote nuclear base in Maoist China. Tel has a background in quantum physics and the story is from his unpublished fiction book set in contemporary China.