2026-10-20
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Today, why are Sally Rooney's books disappearing from UK bookshops?
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Okay, so for now there might be a copy of Intermezzo or two left kicking around in your local bookshop.
But snap it up if you haven't already because soon that will be it.
One of the most successful novelists of her generation will no longer be selling
her books in the UK because she's at risk of being criminalised as a terrorist.
She's basically put her head on the chopping block.
In a whole load of different ways.
And it's hard to argue that she did that for anything but principle.
Last year, Sally Rooney declared that she would be using her royalties to support Palestine Action,
a group that is defined as a terrorist organisation under UK law.
Since then, thousands have been arrested for supporting the group.
Faced with the legal risk that she is funding terrorism,
Rooney and her publishers have decided to pull all of her books from sale.
Over the weekend, hundreds of authors signed an open letter supporting her.