For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week, including disappearing books, a Wal-Mart library and Tom Cruise playing Lee Child‘s thriller hero, Jack Reacher (video embedded above).

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Authors including Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child and P D James will appear as part of Crimefest's 2012 programme, which will take place from 24th to 27th May next year.

Crimefest 2012 will be the fifth year of the international crime convention, with Pan Macmillan's novelisation of Scandinavian TV drama "The Killing" to launch at the event, with an interview with the book's author David Hewson, and surprise appearances from the show's cast and production team.

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Six hardback books released on “Super Thursday” (29th September) sold more than 10,000 copies in their three days on sale last week, helping book sales soar past the £30m mark for the first time since December last year.

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David Nicholls' One Day (Hodder), the adaptation of which hits cinemas later this week, was comfortably the bestselling book at UK booksellers last week.

The novel, first published in 2009, sold 60,410 copies across all printed editions at UK booksellers last week, outselling the next most popular book, Lee Child's Worth Dying For (Bantam) by more than two copies to one.

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Spending on printed books slumped £1.1m last week, as the UK riots caused retailers to shut stores early and the public to avoid the high street.

Although bookshops remained largely unscathed during the rioting, spending slumped by 4% on the previous week, to £26.6m, and was down 9% (£2.6m) on the same week last year. With digital books continuing to steal sales from traditional booksellers, spending on printed books last week hit a six-year low for the month of August.

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Lee Child's 15th Jack Reacher thriller, Worth Dying For (Bantam), was the bestselling book in the UK last week, scoring impressive sales of 32,275 copies in just three days upon its release on Thursday.

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Lee Child has been awarded the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year for his Jack Reacher thriller 61 Hours (Transworld), beating authors including Mark Billingham who has won the prize twice before.

It is the first time Child has won the £3,000 gong, which was awarded this evening (21st July) on the opening night of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate. He was also awarded a handmade, engraved beer barrel provided by the brewer.

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Transworld is to release a digital exclusive Jack Reacher story based on the famous "butt-kicker's" time as a thirteen year old living on a military base.

It said it was the first time it had published a major author in digital exclusive format. Its parent Random House released a short work by Karin Slaughter direct to digital in May.

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Lee Child and Suzanne Collins are the latest authors to sell more than a million Kindle books.

The pair join Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts and Charlaine Harris.

Child, who has written 16 Jack Reacher thrillers including 61 Hours and is published by Bantam in the UK, noted he started writing at the same time Amazon went live in 1995. He said: "I'm really delighted to have hit this current milestone, and I look forward to many more together."

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