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The Bestseller Charts Analysis
straight into the overall number one spot this time three years ago. Cathy Glass’ An Innocent Baby
toddled into a second week as the Paperback Non-fiction number one, with David Jason’s A Del of a Life débuting in second place. Marcus Rashford and Carl
Anka’s You Are a Champion boomeranged back into the Children’s number one spot for the first time since June. Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s
Publisher revenues Penguin
HarperCollins Pan Macmillan S&S
Hodder
Cornerstone Ebury
Bloomsbury Faber
Transworld
Children’s: Pre-school Title
1 Cat’s Cookbook
3 The Gruffalo and Friends... 4 Superworm 5 Funnybones
£2.56m £1.07m £990k £619k £562k £485k £467k £435k £351k £309k
Cat’s Cookbook and Adam Silvera’s They Both Die at the End once again held the Pre-school and Children’s & YA Fiction number ones respectively. However, the autumn effect is beginning to creep in—Janet and Allan Ahlberg’s Funnybones made its annual October return to the Pre-school top 20, ahead of Halloween, and the Children’s Non-Fiction chart saw a rush of 2022 annuals.
CHART STALWART J K ROWLING CLAIMED SEVEN OF THE TOP 13 CHART POSITIONS
Author; Illustrator Imprint Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan...
2 There’s a Unicorn in Your Book Tom Fletcher; Greg Abbott Puffin Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan...
6 Peppa Pig: 2021 Advent Book... - 7 The Hugasaurus
8 Ten Minutes... Baby Unicorn
10 Bluey: The Beach 11 The Hospital Dog
Ladybird
Rachel Bright; Chris Chatterton Orchard R Fielding; C Chatterton
9 The Whale Who Wanted More Rachel Bright; Jim Field -
12 The Smeds and the Smoos
13 Ten Minutes to Bed: Little Dragon R Fielding; C Chatterton 14 Disneyland Parks Colouring Book- 15 What the Ladybird... Seaside 16 Where’s Spot?
17 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 18 Stick Man 19 Geronimo 20 Dear Zoo
Eric Carle
Ladybird Orchard Ladybird
Julia Donaldson; Sara Ogilvie Macmillan...
ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 1529034363 £3.79 0241466605 £4.36 1529052879 £10.82
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170725 £4.48 Allan Ahlberg; Janet Ahlberg Puffin
0140565812 £4.59 0241533963 £14.37 1408356159 £4.79 0241464397 £4.50 1408349229 £5.12 0241486948 £4.76 1509868322 £4.61
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407196657 £4.10 Ladybird Autumn
Julia Donaldson; Lydia Monks Macmillan... Eric Hill
Warne Puffin
Macmillan...
0241464373 £4.49 1838523657 £3.96 1529023152 £4.51 0723263661 £4.27 0241003008 £5.62
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170718 £4.59 David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins 0008279790 £4.39 Rod Campbell
Children’s & YA Fiction Title
1 They Both Die at the End 2 Megamonster
3 The Great Dream Robbery 4 The Danger Gang 5 Midnight Sun
6 Harry... Philosopher’s Stone 7 One of Us is Lying
9 As Good as Dead
10 Eddie Albert... Animal Gang 11 Gangsta Granny
12 Danger at Dead Man’s Pass 13 Fing
16 The Unexpected... Bonlivre 0230747722 £5.02
3,218 2,803 2,229 2,220 2,167 2,035 2,012 1,994 1,932 1,894 1,869 1,854 1,724 1,654 1,553 1,526 1,497 1,491 1,445 1,438
The Audible chart returns an all-fiction top three once again, however Super Thursday releases could turn the tide to non-fiction in the coming months
Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien S
Author; Illustrator Adam Silvera
Imprint S&S Children’s 1471166204 £5.20
David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins 0008487591 £7.69 G James, C Smith; A Nguyen Puffin Tom Fletcher; Shane Devries Puffin Stephenie Meyer J K Rowling
ATOM Karen M McManus
8 The Primrose Railway Children J Wilson; R Dean Holly Jackson Paul O’Grady
Bloomsbury Penguin Puffin
Farshore
0241470510 £7.01 0241407462 £4.65 0349003641 £5.32 1408855652 £5.08 0141375632 £6.03 0241517765 £7.89 1405298605 £6.35
HarperCollins 0008446802 £7.06
David Walliams; Tony Ross HC Children’s 0007371464 £4.16 Leonard, Sedgman; Paganelli Macmillan...
14 Paw Patrol... Dinosaur Rescue -
15 Dog Man 9: Grime... Punishment Dav Pilkey Clare Povey
18 Harry... Chamber of Secrets 20 A Christmas Carol 18 1st October 2021
David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins 0008349110 £4.54 Farshore Scholastic Usborne
17 The Boy at the Back of the Class Onjali Q Rauf J K Rowling
19 The Beast of Buckingham Palace David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins 0008438708 £4.60 Charles Dickens
1529013122 £6.24
0755502660 £4.07 0702310676 £6.01 1474986489 £6.61
1408855669 £4.70
Orion Children’s 1510105010 £4.86 Bloomsbury
Wordsworth... 1840227567 £2.28
ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 4,055 3,681 2,682 2,643 2,452 2,242 2,231 2,029 1,906 1,863 1,650 1,600 1,583 1,445 1,332 1,318 1,277 1,275 1,273 1,226
tephen King’s killer-for-hire Billy Summers has shot directly to the top of the
Audible ranking for August, with Paul Sparks, a.k.a. the mean theatre critic in “The Greatest Showman”, providing the narra- tion. It is King’s first number one in the audio chart, as fiction becomes stronger and stronger in the format. Billy Summers spent three weeks as the Original Fiction number one in hardback across August, after racking up King’s biggest hardback launch-week sale since 2013. Lisa Jewell’s The Night She Disappeared also débuted, in third place. Voiced by Joanne Froggatt, the psychological thriller is
Jewell’s highest-charting title in the Audible monthly top 20. With J K Rowling’s Harry Potter
and the Philosopher’s Stone holding second place, the Audible chart once again returned an all- fiction top three. Summer 2021, the summer of the staycation,
Photography: Shane Leonard
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