Charts Global bestsellers


year and rising 36% in value. Though this was off the back of a 22% decline in value in 2015, it was still an annual high-water mark in both volume and value terms for the territory since records began in, er, 2011. South Africa has its stalwarts, which unfailingly chart in first and second place, “eighth Harry Poter” or no “eighth Harry Poter” book— The Official KS3 Learner’s and Driver’s Manual and The Oxford South Afi- can School Dictionary batered Cursed Child into third place.


the bestseller lists


Australia title


1 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2 The 78-Storey Treehouse 3 Double Down


4 Fantastic Beasts... Find Them 5 Working Class Boy 6 The Girl on the Train 7 Night School


8 The Four Legendary Kingdoms 9 The Barefoot Investor 10 The Husband’s Secret


India title


1 One Indian Girl


2 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 3 Word Power Made Easy 4 Quantitative Aptitude 5 Half Girlfriend


6 Everyone Has a Story 7 Think and Grow Rich 8 The Alchemist


52 weeks to 11th February 2017 author imprint isbn (978+) sales


Rowling, Thorne, Tiffany Little, Brown 0751565355 432,009 Andy Griffiths Jeff Kinney J K Rowling


Pan Australia 1743535004 323,360 Puffin


0143309338 175,415


Jimmy Barnes Paula Hawkins Lee Child


Matthew Reilly Scott Pape


Liane Moriarty


Little, Brown 1408708989 133,795 HarperCollins 1460752135 123,769 Black Swan


0552779777 117,605


Bantam Press 0593073919 109,579 Macmillan


1743534953 109,156


Wrightbooks 0730324218 106,925 Pan Australia 1742613949 106,520


52 weeks to 11th February 2017 author Chetan Bhagat


imprint Rupa


Goyal isbn (978+) sales 8129142146 315,562


Rowling, Thorne, Tiffany Little, Brown 0751565355 147,731 Norman Lewis R S Aggarwal Chetan Bhagat Savi Sharma Napoleon Hill Paulo Coelho


S Chand Rupa


Westland


9 Manorama Yearbook 2016 – Manorama 10 The Power of Your Subconscious Mind Dr Joseph Murphy


6.04m


Australian Dollars was earned by Aussie Liane Moriarty above in her home country, making her the...


Third


most valuable author in the timeframe, trailing J K Rowling (aud24.6m) and Andy Griffiths (aud8.07m).


Trevor Noah, host of US channel Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”, is probably one of the most high- profile living South Africans—and the Rainbow Nation backed its own in the book-sales stakes, propelling Noah’s autobiography, Born a Crime and Other Stories, into seventh place. The title is not a metaphor: Noah’s white father and black mother were liable to be punished with five years’ jail time when he was born. In the US, the memoir has sold a not inconsiderable 169,568 copies.


Deon Meyer, who writes in Afri- kaans, was South Africa’s second most valuable author in the time period covered, and his Koors


was South Africa’s second luable author in the time overed, and rs was the


highest-ranking adult fiction title, beating compatriot Wilbur Smith and Tom Cain’s Predator. ×


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South Africa title


1 ...K53 Learner’s & Driver’s Manual


8183071000 8121924986 8129135728 9386036759


Amazing Reads 8192910918 HarperCollins 8172234980 9383197903


Amazing Reads 8192910963


99,689 81,750 67,257 66,397 59,833 58,175 52,160 50,803


52 weeks to 11th February 2017


author –


imprint Safeways


2 Oxford South African School Dictionary – OUP 3 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child


4 Oxford Afrikaans Skoolwoordeboek – OUP 5 Koors


Deon Meyer Trevor Noah


8 ...K53 Learner’s and Driver’s Made Easy Clive Gibson et al 9 Predator


10 The English Handbook... Study Guide


W Smith & T Cain Beryl Lutrin


Author Top 10s Australia


author 1 J K Rowling


2 Andy Griffiths 3 Liane Moriarty 4 Aaron Blabey 5 Jojo Moyes 6 Jamie Oliver


7 David Walliams 8 James Patterson 9 Paula Hawkins 10 Jeff Kinney


value (aud) 24,670,313 8,077,950 6,042,384 5,728,443 5,358,496 5,031,190 4,981,572 4,929,188 4,450,085 4,361,245


isbn (978+)


1868590735 0195983968


Rowling, Thorne, Tiffany Little, Brown 0751565355 0195787429


6 Gardens Illustrated: Pots of Style – Immediate 7 Born a Crime and Other Stories


Human/Rousseau 0798173858 0563531241


Pan Macmillan 1770105065 Struik Lifestyle 1432304058 HarperCollins 0007535767 Berlut


0620325837 sales


53,809 49,663 45,604 36,568 29,321 24,271 22,643 21,841 17,174 16,039


52 weeks to 11th February 2017 India author 1 J K Rowling


2 Geronimo Stilton 3 Chetan Bhagat 4 R S Aggarwal 5 Jeff Kinney 6 Rick Riordan 7 Paulo Coelho 8 Rhonda Byrne 9 Enid Blyton 10 Jeffrey Archer


value (inr)


167,343,459 66,987,822 58,977,146 57,365,357 50,243,687 38,557,980 37,841,842 37,157,314 30,816,758 26,028,429


South Africa author


1 J K Rowling 2 Deon Meyer 3 Jeff Kinney


4 James Patterson 5 Jojo Moyes 6 Roger Priddy 7 Beryl Lutrin 8 Roald Dahl


9 Danielle Steel 10 Jeffrey Archer


value (zar) 23,834,448 12,967,272 11,382,236 10,443,396 9,022,495 7,367,598 7,284,069 6,838,230 6,816,283 6,544,073


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