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MARKET ANALYSIS BESTSELLERS
17 IN THE SPOTLIGHT
The Bookseller runs a Fiction Heatseekers chart below left every week, a top 10 of the highest- charting titles by authors who have never hit the Top 50. This throws up a mish-mash of up-and-coming authors passing through on their way to the chart’s upper echelons, cult hits, GCSE set-texts and reissued titles by authors who were much bigger deals pre-1998 (when the Nielsen era began). For the year to date, the biggest- selling Fiction Heatseeker see below is Vaseem Khan’s The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra (Mulholland), which hit a high of 63rd place during its tenure as a Waterstones Book Club pick in March. The literary mystery was unfortunate to miss out on a Top 50 place, getting into its stride just around the time World Book Day and Mother’s Day purchases occupied most of the chart. Impressively, Khan’s début has sold more this year than Top 50 luminaries Fiona Barton’s The Widow (Doubleday), Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (Arrow) and Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings (Oneworld). Philip K Dick’s The Man in the High
Castle (Penguin Classics) has been boosted recently, 34 years after the author’s death, by the Amazon Prime screen adaptation: it has sold 13,720 copies since the start of the year. Mark Millar’s Civil War (Panini) has been another consistent seller throughout 2016, as the hype has built for the latest Marvel film “Captain America: Civil War”. The Children’s Heatseekers top
FICTION
10 TOP
POS 1
POS TITLE AUTHOR
1 Inside Alcatraz: My Time on . . . Quillem, Jim 2 The Chimp Paradox 3 The Menagerie 4 Mindfulness 5 Spiralize Now
6 Adventures in Human Being 7 Everything You Need to Have
Peters, Prof Steve Merrit, R & Scully, C Williams & Penman Smart, Denise Francis, Gavin Kite, Gerad
8 Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories Grant, Thomas 9 How Not to Die
10 The Life-Changing Magic of Not . . . Knight, Sarah
Non-Fiction Heatseekers: 17 weeks to 30th April 2016. POS TITLE
1 Guess How Much I Love You 2 Beetle Boy 3 Dear Zoo
4 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 5 The Art of Being Normal 6 The Day the Crayons Quit
AUTHOR Greger, M & Stone, G
PUBLISHER Arrow
Vermillion LOM Art Piatkus Hamlyn Profile Short
John Murray Macmillan Quercus
PUBLISHER
McBratney, S & Jeram, A Walker Leonard, M G Campbell, Rod Carle, Eric
Williamson, Lisa Daywalt, D & Jeffers, O
7 Time Travelling with a Hamster Welford, Ross 8 Goosebumps: The Movie Novel 9 All the Bright Places 10 Ten Little Dinosaurs
Stine, R L Niven, Jennifer Children’s Heatseekers: 17 weeks to 30th April 2016.
10 above follows the same lines as Fiction—a mix of plucky débuts and much-loved, consistent sellers. Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram’s Guess How Much I Love You (Walker) takes the top spot for the year to date. Since its release in October 2014, this edition has sold over 111,000 copies (across all editions that figure is more than a million), all without McBratney ever troubling the Top 50. Rod Campbell’s Dear Zoo (Macmillan), in third place, is a similar story—the author and illustrator has sold over 3.6 million books since 1998 (and 1.6 million of Dear Zoo), but has never hit the main list. This year has been excellent so far for Children’s débuts, evidenced
TITLE 2 The Gunner Girl HEATSEEKERS 4 Sniper Elite 3 The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
5 The Man in the High Castle 6 Only We Know
7 Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 8 Civil War
9 Nineteen Eighty-four 10 After Anna
Fiction Heatseekers: 17 weeks to 30th April 2016.
by strong sales of M G Leonard’s Beetle Boy (Chicken House), Lisa Williamson’s The Art of Being Normal (David Fickling) and Ross Welford’s Time Travelling with a Hamster (HarperCollins Children’s). In what will be a shock to any child of the 1990s, Goosebumps author R L Stine makes the list too, having never charted in the Top 50 in the Nielsen BookScan era. In our Non-Fiction Heatseekers
chart above top, self-improvement titles dominate, which is unsurprising in the first few months of the year. Yet, two true crime titles—Jim Quillem’s Inside Alcatraz (Arrow), in first place, and Thomas Grant’s Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories (John Murray)—
AUTHOR
The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra Khan, Vaseem Harvey, Clare
Cannon, Joanna
McEwan, S & Koloniar, T Dick, Philip K Perry, Karen
Ransom, Riggs Millar, Mark
Orwell, George Lake, Alex
PUBLISHER Mulholland
Simon & Schuster The Borough Press Touchstone
Penguin Classics Penguin Quirk Panini
Penguin Harper
ISBN
9781473612280 9781471150548 9780008132163 9781501120718 9780241246108 9781405913034 9781594746031 9781905239603 9780141187761 9780008168483
have broken through. Anti-self- improvement title Sarah Knight’s The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k (Quercus) hits 10th; however, the subject of the spoof, Marie Kondo, hit a high of 23rd in the overall chart and therefore does not appear as a heatseeker. One colouring book, Richard Merritt and Clare Scully’s The Menagerie (LOM Art), made the chart—hitting the sweet spot between not immediately fading away, yet not experiencing the phenomenal success of titans Millie Marotta and Joanna Basford.
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PUB DATE RRP ASP UNITS Dec 15 £7.99 £5.31 22,826
Feb 16 £7.99 £4.01 17,651 Jan 16 £12.99 £8.24 15,772 May 15 £7.99 £3.98 14,430 Nov 15 £8.99 £5.01 13,720 Dec 15 £7.99 £3.79 12,845 Aug 13 £8.99 £7.73 12,583 Apr-07 £10.99 £9.79 12,350 Jan 04 £8.99 £7.28 11,784 Nov 15 £7.99 £3.70 11,732
Chicken House Macmillan Puffin
David Fickling HC Children’s HC Children’s Scholastic Penguin
Brownlow, M & Rickerty, S Orchard ISBN
9781784750664 9780091935580 9781910552155 9780749953089 9780600632726 9781781253427 9781780722597 9781444799750 9781447282440 9781784298463
ISBN
9781406358780 9781910002704 9780230747722 9780140569322 9781910200520 9780007513765 9780008156312 9781407158150 9780141357034 9781408334010
PUB DATE RRP
Dec 15 £7.99 Jan 12
£9.99 £8.99 £9.99 £9.99
£12.99
Nov 15 £9.99 May 11 £14.99 Jul 15 Feb 16 Jan 16 Jan 16 Feb 16 Dec 15
PUB DATE RRP
Oct 14 £6.99 Mar 16 £6.99 Jul 10
£6.99
Nov 02 £6.99 Jan 16 Jul 14 Dec 15 Jan 16 Jan 15 Oct 15
£7.99 £6.99 £6.99 £4.99 £7.99 £6.99
ASP UNITS £4.76 27,258
£14.99 £12.99
£10.05 25,733 £5.60 25,529 £10.00 23,570 £4.61 22,649 £7.30 21,054 £8.22 16,134 £8.96 15,406 £12.10 15,261 £11.64 13,904
ASP UNITS £3.80 33,855
£5.29 25,044 £4.65 23,288 £4.28 20,143 £5.30 19,668 £4.81 19,229 £5.40 18,347 £3.93 16,827 £5.21 16,268 £4.89 15,571
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