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The Bestseller Charts Analysis
The Official UK Top 50 Richard Osman hits charts top double
Title £33.5m TCM value
WEEK ON WEEK –6.7%
Richard Osman hits the top spot for the second week in a row— and secures second place with his first cosy crime novel, too
Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien
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ichard Osman’s The Man Who Died Twice notches up a second week as the
Official UK Top 50 number one, with 60,992 copies sold through the Total Consumer Market in its first full week on sale. The title is already the eighth-bestselling book of the year to date, since sales figures returned to the Nielsen charts in mid-March. With his début The Thursday Murder Club bouncing up into second place, Osman joins an élite club of authors who have scored first and second place concurrently in the Top 50. Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train achieved it with its original and film tie-in paperback edition in autumn 2016, as the film adaptation hit cinemas, and E L
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1 The Man Who Died Twice 2 The Thursday Murder Club 3 And Away...
5 Turn a Blind Eye 6 Together
Author; Illustrator Richard Osman Richard Osman Bob Mortimer
4 Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney Jeffrey Archer Jamie Oliver Cathy Glass Matt Haig
7 An Innocent Baby 8 The Midnight Library 9 This Much is True
10 Guinness World Records 2022 11 A Beautiful Spy 12 Daughters of War 13 Piranesi
14 It Ends with Us 15 A Del of a Life
16 The Seven Husbands... Hugo 17 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox... 18 Big Panda and Tiny Dragon 19 The Survivors
20 One August Night 21 Blackout
22 Family Comforts 23 The Girls
24 The Body Keeps the Score 25 Rick Stein at Home 26 Jane’s Patisserie 27 You Are a Champion 28 Belonging
29 A Time for Mercy 30 The Wolf Den 31 Marauder
32 They Both Die at the End 33 Win
34 The Burning Girls 35 Hamnet
36 Where the Crawdads Sing 37 Find You First
38 The Official Highway Code 39 The Book of Two Ways
Miriam Margolyes -
Rachel Hore
Dinah Jefferies Susanna Clarke Colleen Hoover David Jason
Imprint Viking
Penguin ISBN TCM total Volume
0241425428 175,279 60,992 0241988268 473,844 21,600
Simon & Schuster 1398505292 60,661 18,047 Faber & Faber 0571365425 80,193 14,335 Pan
Michael Joseph 0241431177 54,053 11,768 HarperCollins 0008466480 22,376 10,596 Canongate
1786892737 345,110
John Murray 1529379884 19,533 Guinness World... 1913484118 13,723 Simon & Schuster 1471187216 13,165 HarperCollins 0008427023 12,991 Bloomsbury
1526622433 29,798
Simon & Schuster 1471156267 79,988 Arrow
1787465367 Ebury 8,156
Taylor Jenkins Reid Simon & Schuster 1982147662 85,234 Charlie Mackesy James Norbury Jane Harper Victoria Hislop Simon Scarrow Rebecca Wilson Lisa Jewell
1529105100 1,233,299
Michael Joseph 0241529324 14,592 Abacus Headline Headline DK
0349143743
1472278449 108,385 1472258564
Arrow
Bessel van der Kolk Rick Stein Jane Dunn
Penguin BBC
Ebury
M Rashford & C Anka Macmillan... Alun Wyn Jones John Grisham Elodie Harper
Macmillan Hodder Apollo
C Cussler & B Morrison Penguin Adam Silvera Harlan Coben C J Tudor
Penguin
Maggie O’Farrell Delia Owens
Linwood Barclay -
Jodi Picoult
40 The Evening and the Morning Ken Follett 41 Your Neighbour’s Wife 42 Megamonster
43 The Coffinmaker’s Garden 44 A Slow Fire Burning 45 The Family Man 46 Shuggie Bain 47 Grown Ups
48 What I Love About You 49 Cat’s Cookbook 50 The Night Hawks
Tony Parsons
D Walliams; T Ross Stuart MacBride Paula Hawkins
Tinder Press Corsair HQ
TSO
Hodder Pan
Arrow
0241534694 15,330 0099599470 83,719 0141978611 169,518 1785947087
7,925
1529109429 95,626 1529068177 146,569 1529058086 10,103 1529342369 98,306 1838933555 19,312 1405944496
S&S Children’s 1471166204 161,109 Arrow
1787462991 59,965 1405939652
6,689
1472223821 238,950 1472154668 458,203 0008332082 34,160 0115533426 975,242 1473692435 45,546 1447278801 64,845 1787464957
5,524
HarperCollins 0008487591 258,374 HarperCollins 0008208349 32,350 Doubleday
Kimberley Chambers HarperCollins 0008365998 Douglas Stuart Marian Keyes -
Picador Penguin Templar
J Donaldson; A Scheffler Macmillan... Elly Griffiths
Quercus
0857524447 23,376 8,668
1529019292 192,314 1405918787 133,050 1787413726 63,573 1529034363 79,251 1787477841 46,253
Week ending 25th September 2021. Key New Up Same Down Unless otherwise stated, charts use data from Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market, representing print book sales through around 6,500 retailers. Any title discounted by more than 74.5% is ineligible for inclusion.
9,479 8,196 1509851386 20,348 11,830 6,754
8,607 8,276 8,010 7,800 6,919 6,705 6,214 5,720 5,656 5,389 5,314 5,163 5,046 4,570 4,491 4,440 4,349 4,340 4,263 4,226 4,218 4,138 4,115 4,112 4,055 3,983 3,947 3,914 3,900 3,832 3,826 3,787 3,766 3,753 3,681 3,636 3,576 3,524 3,507 3,448 3,359 3,218 3,187
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