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UK consumer book sales climbed 7% to £2.1bn last year as people "rediscovered their love of reading" in lockdown, the industry body says.
Demand for fiction and non-fiction jumped, while audio-book sales were up 37%, the Publishers Association said.
Bestsellers included The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo and 7 Ways by Jamie Oliver.
But educational book sales slumped as schools were shut for months.
Stephen Lotinga, chief executive of the Publishers' Association, said: "It's clear that many people rediscovered their love of reading last year and that publishers were able to deliver the entertaining and thought-provoking books that so many of us needed.