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Weeks Richard Osman’s first novel has topped the Mass-Market Fiction category chart to date
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James was the last to chalk up the double with two separate titles in summer 2012, as both Fif Shades of Grey and Fif Shades Freed topped the chart with Fif Shades Darker as their runner-up. Suzanne Collins also doubled up with her Hunger Games trilogy just a fortnight before James did— once again, the film adaptation nudged its source material to the top of book charts. Perhaps Osman
will double up on the double when The Thursday Murder Club’s own film adaptation, reportedly in the works with Steven Spielberg at the helm, hits UK cinemas and/or streaming services.
Of course, Osman’s duology achieved a double- double of sorts last week, with both titles topping their respec- tive category charts for a second week. The Man Who Died Twice notched up a
second pole in Original Fiction, while The Thursday Murder Club reigned atop Mass-Market Fiction for an 18th week. It now outstrips Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which notched up 17 non-consecutive poles across late 2018 and early 2019, to become Continues overleaf
ichard Osman’s The Man Who Died Twice swipes the Bookstat number one for a second week running, with The Thursday
Murder Club maintaining fourth place. Osman’s début has made 21 appearances in the Bookstat chart to date, so the sequel could been in for an equally long stretch. Patricia Gibney’s crime thriller Little Bones
débuted in second, with Faith Martin’s Murder Now and Then, Amanda Prowse’s Waiting to Begin and Jo Nesbo’s Knife also entering the chart in fifth, seventh and 10th respectively. For the week ending 18th September, The
Man Who Died Twice also topped the Publisher E-Book Ranking. Despite the top 10 including eight new entries, The Thursday Murder Club swum against the tide to climb back into the runner-up spot. Two former chart-topping authors, Liane Moriarty and Kimberley Chambers, debuted in the chart (with Apples Never Fall and The Family Man respectively), while non-fiction hits Cathy Glass’ An
Bookstat E-Book Top 10 1 The Man Who Died Twice
Title 2 Little Bones 3 One August Night
4 The Thursday Murder Club 5 Murder Now and Then 6 The Holiday
7 Waiting to Begin 8 The Road Trip
9 The Last Letter from Your Lover 10 Knife
Author
Richard Osman Patricia Gibney Victoria Hislop Richard Osman Faith Martin T M Logan
Amanda Prowse Beth O’Leary Jojo Moyes Jo Nesbo
RICHARD OSMAN TOPS BOTH DIGITAL BESTSELLER CHARTS
Innocent Baby and Miriam Margoyles’ This Much is True also hit the top 10.
Clarification Hachette has stated that Little Bones sold 9,306 units; One August Night 9,845; The Road Trip 5,264; and The Last Letter from Your Lover 5,435.
Imprint Penguin
Bookouture Headline Penguin Joffe
Zaffre
Lake Union Quercus
ISBN (+978) Volume 0241425428 12,236 1800196179 10,495 1472278449 10,339 0241425442 1789318760 1542028639 1542023436 1529409093
Hodder & Stoughton 1529390025 Vintage
1787300767
7,806 7,761 7,145 6,114 5,853 5,428 5,240
Data source Bookstat. Week ending 25th September 2021. Bookstat generates its charts by tracking the movement of e-books, print books and audio titles on online retailers’ websites and calibrating against publisher-supplied data; the volume and value figures are estimates. For more information, contact
info@bookstat.com.
The Publisher E-Book Ranking 1 The Man Who Died Twice
Title
2 The Thursday Murder Club 3 Apples Never Fall 4 An Innoncent Baby 5 The Family Man
6 The Wisdom of Crowds 7 Daughters of War 8 This Much is True 9 That Night
10 I Have Something To Tell You Author
Richard Osman Richard Osman Liane Moriarty Cathy Glass
Imprint Viking Viking
Kimberley Chambers HarperCollins Joe Abercrombie Dinah Jefferies
Orion
Miriam Margolyes Gillian McAllister Susan Lewis
HarperCollins John Murray
ISBN (+978) List price 0241988251 0241988275
Michael Joseph 1405942270 HarperElement 0008466497 0008366018 0575095991 0008427030
Michael Joseph 1405942454 HarperCollins
0008287009
£9.99 £5.99 £9.99 £4.49 £8.99 £9.99 £4.99
1529379914 £10.99 £2.99 £6.99
Week ending 18th September 2021. Key New Up Same Down. Titles with a selling price below £2 are excluded, as are titles priced £4.50 or below with any print versions priced above £17.99. Participating publishers: PRH UK, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Simon & Schuster, Bonnier Zaffre, Canongate & Joffe Books.
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