HARRY’S HEARTSTOPPING HEIR

HEARTSTOPPER author Alice Oseman has been named Bookseller magazine’s person of the year — the youngest ever by two decades — after selling £9.25 million of books in the UK alone in 2022.

Editor Tom Tivnan calls her: ‘Probably Britain’s first truly global breakout children’s superstar in 20 years’, but doesn’t mention Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling by name.

Also on the list of the 150 most influential people in publishing is former Pointless star Richard Osman — known as ‘Osman the omnipotent.’ His Thursday Murder Club ‘cosy crime’ stories have been phenomenally successful.

A fourth instalment will be out in September and he has signed a new, four- book deal with publisher Viking which will concern a father and daughter crime-solving duo.