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power, a theme made all the more contentious because the novel was published in Italy a week after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Undoubtedly, the surprise bestseller in Italy is quantum physicist Carlo Rovelli’s Sette Brevi Lezioni di Fisica (Aldephi), an explanation of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. This is no dumbed- down popular science title—its dour, text-only cover screams “academia”—but an out-of- nowhere, middle- to high-brow book which—like Thomas Piketty’s economics tome Capital in the 21st Century (Belknap) in the UK last year—has somehow captured the public’s imagination. It has sold almost 50,000 units in 2015, after shifting more than 100,000 copies in the last few months of 2014.


YOUR CHETAN HEART Delhi-born investment banker- turned-author Chetan Bhagat’s 10-year writing career has been characterised by a frosty critical reception—and a rapturous public one. That has not changed with his most recent novel, Half Girlfriend. India Business News’ view— ”massively disappointing and only written to be made into yet another Bollywood sob-fest” —is indicative of Indian critics’ malaise. Yet publisher Rupa & Co will


hardly care. The author, it claims, is the biggest-selling writer in the English language in Indian history, and he has topped BookScan India’s 2015 list (above right) with ease, outselling the


second-placed book by almost four copies to one. Bhagat has another 21 titles in the Top 5,000 list for 2015 to date—Paulo Coelho, with 34 entries, is the only Adult Fiction author with more—for a total RUP7.5m (£81,000). As ever, India’s non-fiction


charts are dominated by personal development books. Of the year to date’s top 25 non-fiction titles,


22 are from the Self-Help, Business Development and Education sectors, including Preeti Shenoy’s Life is What You Make it (Srishti), Norman Lewis’ Word Power Made Easy (Goyal) and Robin Sharma’s The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (Jaico). But non-fiction’s matchwinner is the memoir of India’s national hero, cricketing icon Sachin Tendulkar. A hit when published in 2014, Playing it My Way (Hodder) has continued to sell strongly, shifting almost 12,000 copies so far in 2015. It has also sold a respectable 15,000 units in the UK, too.


SCHOOL DAZE The South African school year begins in January, which is reflected in a top 20 dominated by textbooks


POS TITLE 1 Half Girlfriend


2 Your Dreams are Mine Now 3 Playing it My Way


4 Life is What You Make it 5 Word Power Made Easy


6 The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari 7 The Long Haul 8


Adultery


9 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck 10 I Too Had a Love Story 11 The Alchemist 12 The Red Sari


13 You’re the Password to My Life 14 Who Will Cry When You Die? 15 It Happens for a Reason 16 The Immortals of Meluha 17 Gone Girl


18 The Mastery Manual 19 Mightier than the Sword 20 When Only Love Remains


POS TITLE 1 Oxford School Dictionary: Gr 4 - 6


4 Official K53 Learner’s & Driver’s Manual 5 The Real Meal Revolution


6 Pharos Bilingual School Dictionary 7 Klein-woordeboek/Little Dictionary 8 The English Handbook and Study Guide 9 Oxford Illustrated School Dictionary 10 Oxford Mini Skoolwoordeboek


11 Official K53 Learner’s and Driver’s Made Easy 12 The Afrikaans Handbook and Study Guide 13 Kry Daai Lyf


14 Die Kosrevolusie 15 Oxford Primary Dictionary


and dictionaries. In fact, it is dominated by Oxford University Press: OUP SA takes the top three spots in the chart (bottom) and a stunning 10 of the top 20 titles. The academic publisher accounted for 46% of the R26.5m (£1.5m) generated by the top 20 combined. The bestselling adult non- educational title is Professor Tim Noakes’ diet book The Real Meal Revolution, published by Cape Town indie Quivertree, which was also the bestselling Adult Non-fiction title of 2014. The tome— it broadly says “ditch


carbs and eat fat”—has been picked up in the UK by Little, Brown imprint Constable & Robinson, and is due in July.


AUTHOR


Bhagat, Chetan Singh, Ravinder Tendulkar, Sachin Shenoy, Preeti Lewis, Norman Sharma, Robin S Kinney, Jeff Coelho, Paulo Ashwin, Sanghi Singh, Ravinder Coelho, Paulo Moro, Javier


Nagarkar, Sudeep Sharma, Robin S Shenoy, Preeti Tripathi, Amish Flynn, Gillian Sharma, Robin Archer, Jeffrey Datta, Durjoy


AUTHOR –


2 Oxford Afrikaans/English Dictionary: Gr 4 - 9 – 3 Oxford Mini School Dictionary


– –


Noakes, Creed et al –


Kromhout, Jan Lutrin, Beryl Reynolds/OUP –


PUBLISHER Rupa & Co


Metro Reads India Hodder & Stoughton Srishti Goyal Jaico


Puffin Vintage Westland Penguin India


HarperCollins India Roli Books


Random House India Jaico


Westland Westland Phoenix Jaico


Macmillan


Penguin India PUBLISHER


OUP Southern Africa OUP Southern Africa OUP Southern Africa Safeways Quivertree


Pharos Dictionaries Pharos Dictionaries Berlut Books


OUP Southern Africa OUP Southern Africa


Gibson, Hoole & Passchier Struik Lifestyle Lutrin, Beryl Kriel, Linda


Noakes, Creed et al –


16 Oxford Secondary School Dictionary: Gr 8 - 12 – 17 Oxford Mini School Dictionary 18 Oxford Primary Atlas 19 Leaving Time


20 Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary


Allen, Robert –


Picoult, Jodi –


Berlut Books Carpe Diem Quivertree


OUP Southern Africa OUP Southern Africa OUP Southern Africa OUP Southern Africa Hodder & Stoughton OUP Southern Africa


South Africa is a rarity among the


Nielsen territories to be featured in The Bookseller Daily editions at this year’s LBF, in that just one title of the top 20 titles is Adult Fiction— and only barely: Jodi Picoult’s Leaving Time (Hodder) sold 3,823 units to grab 19th spot overall. Fiction titles to narrowly miss out on a top 20 berth include James Patterson and Ashwin Sanghi’s Private India (Century, 3,245 copies), Sylvia Day’s Captivated by You (Penguin, 3,055 units), and 150 Stories (Human & Rousseau, 2,901 copies), by Nataniël, the Afrikaans popstar/ entertainer/author whose extravagant costumes and shaven head suggest a cross between Lady Gaga and Austin Powers’ nemesis, Dr Evil. 


ISBN R.R.P. VALUE VOLUME


9788129135728 R176.00 R5,061,769 38,155 9780143423003 9781473605206 9789380349305 9788183071000 9788179921623 9780141357027 9788184006094 9789384030575 9780143418764 9788172234980 9789351941033 9788184005844 9788179922323 9789384030742 9789380658742 9781780228662 9788184954081 9781447290599 9780143422648


R175.00 R1,729,098 R899.00 R7,670,023 R100.00 R149.00 R195.00


R435,900 R727,585


R517,093 R924,659 R889,586


R399.00 R2,194,085 R299.00 R1,590,497 R100.00 R175.00


R195.00 R1,331,909 R395.00 R1,992,297 R175.00 R175.00 R200.00


R685,461 R603,188 R797,261


R295.00 R1,016,903 R399.00 R1,531,663 R199.00


R824,429


R599.00 R2,258,162 R175.00


R493,151 ISBN


9780195983968 9780195787429 9780192756954 9781868590735 9780992206277 9781868901289 9781868900633 9780620325837 9780195980530 9780195992533 9781432304058 9780620325844 9781432203931 9780992216924 9780192733757 9780195762235 9780199115174 9780199070374 9781444778151 9780194799126


R.R.P. R109.95 R4,470,398


VALUE VOLUME 41,201


R129.95 R3,664,535 R85.95 R1,461,979 R59.95


R310.00 R3,218,503 R144.95 R1,534,446 R99.95 R1,021,967 R220.00 R1,572,789 R89.95 R84.95 R60.00


R220.00 R1,228,030 R170.00


R700,313


R310.00 R1,261,661 R102.95 R139.95 R85.95


R149.95 R295.00 R179.95


27,915 16,369


R693,728 R622,479 R411,229


R417,014 R615,414 R349,164 R624,134 R996,473 R668,862


R966,381 16,139 11,458 10,608 9,147 7,232 6,909 6,357 6,034 5,624 4,844 4,476 4,059 4,014 3,918 3,898 3,823 3,680


12,698 11,738 8,806 7,716 7,018 6,573 6,514 5,972 5,951 5,918 5,721 5,296 5,087 5,004 4,727 4,669 4,295 4,175 4,140


Source: BookScan South Africa, 10 weeks to 8th March


Source: BookScan India, 10 weeks to 7th March


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