Bookouture celebrated a second consecutive year of significant double-digit sales growth in 2024, as the team presented key achievements and growth plans to agents at Hachette’s Carmelite House office this week.

Highlights presented included:

• Bookouture now has an in-house UK print sales team, with approximately 25-30 titles a year having full trade print distribution. (This is a change from the previous arrangement whereby a small number of titles was distributed in print by Little, Brown.)
• The success of Freida McFadden’s Housemaid trilogy: 6 million unit sales across all formats, over 1 billion Kindle Unlimited pages read, Sunday Times and New York Times top ten bestseller, Amazon.com’s number 1 bestselling ebook of 2023, translation rights sold in more than 40 languages, a major film in production starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried.
• The significant growth of Bookouture’s SFF imprint Second Sky, led this year by BookTok sensation Phantasma by Kaylie Smith. 100,000 copies now sold across all formats, a Kindle top 3 bestseller and USA Today bestseller. The Second Sky team will be expanding in January 2025 with the hire of a new commissioning editor.
• The huge success of Bookouture’s translation publishing programme, which has now published over 250 titles in three years across Germany, Italy and France. 60% of these titles have been Kindle top 100 bestsellers, and the list as a whole now has more than 900 million Kindle Unlimited page reads.
• The forthcoming launch in 2025 of a paid online training platform for authors with a core focus on writing commercial fiction for a digital audience.

The panel presenting at the agent breakfast were:

Jenny Geras – Managing Director
Ruth Tross, Jessie Botterill, Laura Deacon – Publishers
Alex Crow – Communications Director
Peta Nightingale – Contracts, Rights and Translations Director
David Murphy – Sales Director, Orion and Bookouture
Ain Chiara – Head of Bookouture Publishing Academy

Bookouture celebrates its 12^th birthday this month, and has been a division of Hachette UK since March 2017.

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