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CHARTS GLOBAL BOOK MARKETS
16.04.15
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Though topped by American Sniper and peppered with a healthy spread of British and American hits, the Australian and New Zealand book charts have plenty of native representation too. Tom Tivnan looks at the celebrity chefs who are simmering Down Under
and US cousins, but if there is a theme across the Australian and New Zealand charts, it is of surging strength in home-grown titles, particularly non-fiction. Yes, the big US and UK books
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are here, most noticeably the title that tops the charts of both ANZAC territories (Australia below right, NZ bottom right) , Chris Kyle’s American Sniper. Yet of the top 20 titles in Australia in the first 10 weeks of 2015 through Nielsen BookScan, nine were originally published Down Under (though admittedly most were through subsidiaries of the Big Four publishing groups). Of the Australian top 50 for the year to date, 22 books are home-grown. Meanwhile, four of the New
Zealand Top 10 come from Kiwi publishers—impressive given the size of NZ’s domestic publishing. A good portion of the local publishing standouts are in cookery. In Australia, TV chef and paleo diet proselytiser Pete Evans’ Family Food is the
bestselling native non-fiction book by some distance. It is Evans’ second
book with Pan Mac imprint Plum on the “paleo way”, after previously publishing six books with Australian indie Murdoch Books. Presumably his Murdoch range, which includes 2012’s Pizza, does not really complement his current lifestyle list. Evans has stirred up controversy
since his paleo conversion. His contention that diet is the cause
ntipodean publishers may have been looking over their shoulders at their UK
of autism was widely disputed, while his paleo for babies and toddlers title, Bubba Yum Yum: The Paleo Way, which was due in March, has been delayed by Pan Macmillan over concerns about the safety of the diet.
KIWI FRUITS Similarly in New Zealand, a native celeb chef tops the hardback non-
POS TITLE
1 American Sniper 2 Family Food
3 Little Golden Books (Various Titles) 4 The Narrow Road to the Deep North 5 Disney Frozen Magical Colouring 6 The Long Haul
7 Frozen Imagine Ink: Mess Free Game Book 8 Disney Frozen Sticker Scenes 9 Gone Girl
10 Disney Frozen Magnetic Dress-Up Dolls 11 Wild
12 Fifty Shades of Grey 13 The Girl on the Train 14 The 52-Storey Treehouse 15 Still Alice 16= Gone Girl
16= The Ruby Circle
18 Frozen Imagine Ink: Mess Free Game Book 19 The Secret His Mistress Carried 20 Girl Online
POS 1
TITLE American Sniper 2 Through the Seasons
3 The Great New Zealand Cookbook 4 The Long Haul
5 The Woman Who Stole My Life 6 Disney Frozen Cool Colouring 7 Everyday Delicious 8 Unbroken
9 The Official New Zealand Road Code 2013 10 Girl Online
11 Wordsearch Book 12 The Girl on the Train 13 Leaving Time
16 Fifty Shades of Grey
fiction pile and is in second place overall, behind Kyle. Annabel Langbein’s latest, Through the Seasons (published by her eponymous media company), was originally
released in autumn
to coincide with her TV series being broadcast on New Zealand TV. Two other home-grown
AUTHOR
Kyle, Chris Evans, Pete –
Flanagan, Richard –
Kinney, Jeff – –
Flynn, Gillian –
Strayed, Cheryl James, E L
Hawkins, Paula Griffiths, Andy Genova, Lisa Flynn, Gillian Mead, Richelle –
Graham, Lynne Sugg, Zoe
AUTHOR Kyle, Chris
Langbein, Annabel –
Kinney, Jeff
Keyes, Marian –
Winter, Chelsea
Hillenbrand, Laura –
Sugg, Zoe –
Hawkins, Paula Picoult, Jodi
14 Minecraft: The Official Construction Handbook – 15 Echo Burning
17 Minecraft: The Official Beginner’s Handbook – 18 Minecraft: The Official Combat Handbook 19 Gone Girl 20 Personal
–
Flynn, Gillian Child, Lee
Child, Lee James, E L
PUBLISHER
HarperCollins Plum
Random House USA Vintage (Australia)
Parragon Book Service Puffin
Hinkler Books
Parragon Book Service Phoenix
Hinkler Books Atlantic Books Arrow Books Doubleday
Pan Australia
Simon & Schuster Phoenix
Viking Australia Hinkler Books
Harlequin Mills & Boon Puffin Books
PUBLISHER HarperCollins
Annabel Langbein Media PQ Blackwell Puffin
Michael Joseph Parragon
Random House NZ Fourth Estate
NZ Transport Agency Puffin Books W F Graham Doubleday
Allen & Unwin Egmont Bantam Arrow
Egmont Egmont Phoenix Bantam
cookbooks appear within the NZ top 10. The Great New Zealand Cookery Book is a compendium of recipes from 80 different Kiwi chefs, compiled by Auckland-based illustrated publisher PQ Blackwell. Everyday Delicious is by rising NZ celebrity chef Chelsea Winter, who won
the third series of “Masterchef New Zealand”. R.R.P.
$19.99 $39.99 $4.50
$19.99 $5.99
$14.99 $12.99 $6.99
$19.99 $9.99
$19.99 $19.99 $32.99 $12.99 $19.99 $19.99 $19.99 $12.99 $7.99
$19.99 R.R.P.
$22.99 $59.95 $49.99 $17.99 $37.00 $19.99 $49.99 $24.99 $25.50 $26.00 $2.99
$36.99 $36.99 $16.99 $19.99 $24.99 $16.99 $16.99 $27.99 $37.99
A.S.P.
$16.24 $27.88 $3.06
$17.94 $2.23 $9.75 $5.37 $2.78
$16.52 $4.91
$16.09 $13.44 $26.72 $9.83
$15.37 $16.84 $13.48 $5.13 $5.01
$17.64 A.S.P.
$22.29 $45.73 $34.87 $16.45 $29.89 $4.77
$43.53 $23.72 $25.21 $24.64 $3.99
$32.49 $28.52 $14.45 $7.26
$22.94 $14.46 $14.52 $26.59 $33.08
$927,296 $995,748 $107,388 $541,812 $65,306 $274,464 $137,990 $70,535 $402,234 $119,479 $375,673 $313,612 $597,317 $214,033 $325,639 $343,659 $275,136 $103,407 $91,440 $299,492
VALUE VOLUME 57,082 35,713 35,084 30,202 29,292 28,164 25,706 25,367 24,350 24,324 23,352 23,334 22,355 21,779 21,184 20,405 20,405 20,162 18,242 16,976
VALUE
$94,501 $169,142 $97,907 $43,574 $75,840 $10,913 $96,849 $51,097 $52,946 $49,421 $7,765
$61,795 $53,559 $25,380 $12,247 $37,353 $23,355 $23,246 $42,498 $52,459
VOLUME 4,240 3,699 2,808 2,649 2,537 2,289 2,225 2,154 2,100 2,006 1,947 1,902 1,878 1,757 1,688 1,628 1,615 1,601 1,598 1,586
Source: BookScan New Zealand, 10 weeks to 8th March
Source: BookScan Australia, 10 weeks to 7th March
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