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Sally Rooney Says Her Novels Will No Longer Be Sold in Britain

Sally Rooney says sales of her novels in Britain will end. She and her publisher said she could no longer receive royalties from those sales because of her pledge to donate book revenues to Palestine Action, which is banned in the UK.

BharatVox · 15 October 2026 at 01:21 am IST

Sally Rooney — archive photograph (2022-03-10); not the reported event — Rubén Sobrino, CC BY-SA 4.0

Sally Rooney says her novels will no longer be sold in Britain, according to The New York Times, after she pledged to donate book revenues to Palestine Action, which is banned in the UK.

Rooney and her publisher said that the pledge meant she could no longer receive royalties from British sales. The available report does not specify when sales would stop, how existing bookshop stock would be handled or whether every format would be affected.

#Sally Rooney#Books#British publishing#Palestine Action

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