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The Bestseller Charts Analysis
(2016’s Star Wars Expert Guide). And before the Short acquisition, a lot of Octopus’ titles—even, or rather particularly its cookery list—was on the more upmarket/long game over quick hit/ value over volume side. Take Sabrina Ghayour’s Persiana, which is Octopus’ second-bestselling
title by value through the TCM. It earned its £3.1m not by big spikes but durabilit: seven and half years aſter publication it is still shiſting around 250 copies per week through BookScan. The Short acquisition has been transformational for Octopus, particularly at the top. An all-time TCM Octopus chart based on volume has four of its top five coming from Short, and seven of its top 15. Thirt-five
Octopus titles have shiſted more than 100,000 units through the TCM, 12 of which are from Short. (If an acquisition is added to a
TCM actual selling price Last 52 Nielsen weeks
£10
Original Fiction Title
1 Pandora
2 The Man Who Died Twice 3 The Maid
4 The Twyford Code 5 To Paradise 6 Violeta
7 Should I Tell You? 8 Three Sisters
Author
Imprint Viking
ISBN (+978)
Susan Stokes-Chapman Harvill Secker 1787302884 £14.07 Richard Osman Nita Prose
Janice Hallett
Hanya Yanagihara Picador Isabel Allende Jill Mansell
Heather Morris
9 Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney 10 Better Off Dead 11 Invisible
12 A Terrible Kindness
14 Little Wing 15 The Promise
Bloomsbury Headline
Lee & Andrew Child Bantam Danielle Steel
Jo Browning Wroe
13 Daughter of the Moon Goddess Sue Lynn Tan Freya North
16 One Step Too Far
17 The Couple at the Table 18 The Man in the Bunker 19 The Christie Affair 20 Never
Damon Galgut Lisa Gardner
Sophie Hannah Rory Clements
Nina de Gramont Ken Follett
Mass-Market Fiction Title
1 Rabbit Hole 2 It Ends with Us 3 The City of Tears
4 A Wedding in the Country 5 The Thursday Murder Club 6 The Sanatorium 7 Ugly Love 8 Verity
9 Both of You 10 The Affair
11 The Night She Disappeared £5
13 The Midnight Library Ariadne
14 £0 £8.58 YEAR ON YEAR n/a%
15 The Love Hypothesis 16 For Your Own Good 17 Fast Ice
18 Mrs England 19 Sooley
20 Her Last Holiday
0241425428 £10.56
HarperCollins 0008435721 £10.31 Viper
1788165310 £11.97 1529077476 £17.70 1526648341 £14.13 1472248589
Bonnier Zaffre 1838772628 Faber
Macmillan Faber
0571365425 £10.92 1787633735 £10.91 1529021813 £10.34 0571368297 £13.07
HarperVoyager 0008479299 £13.41 Welbeck Chatto Century Hodder
1787397606
1784744069 £11.51 1529135565
Bonnier Zaffre 1838777654 Mantle
Macmillan £7.79
£9.08 £7.54
£7.54
1529352818 £14.57 £9.22
1529054170 £15.43 1529076936 £10.14
ASP Volume 4,447 4,266 2,671 2,627 2,249 1,568 1,482 1,431 1,392 1,370 1,363 1,339 1,206 1,117 1,092 1,067 925 856 817 738
Author
Mark Billingham Colleen Hoover Kate Mosse Katie Fforde
Richard Osman Sarah Pearse Colleen Hoover Colleen Hoover Adele Parks Danielle Steel Lisa Jewell
Jennifer Saint Ali Hazelwood
Imprint
ISBN (+978)
Little, Brown 0751577280 Simon & Schuster 1471156267 Pan
Penguin Penguin Corgi
1509806898 1529156317 0241988268 0552177313
Simon & Schuster 1471136726 Sphere HQ
Pan Penguin
Canongate Wildfire Sphere
Manilla Hodder Avon
1408726600 0008440152 1529021486 1529156270
12 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn... Taylor Jenkins Reid Simon & Schuster 1398515697 Matt Haig
Samantha Downing Penguin C Cussler & G Brown Penguin Stacey Halls John Grisham C L Taylor
1786892737 1472273901 1408725764 1405945639 1405946872 1838772888 1529368048 0008379254
ASP Volume £4.38 12,271 £5.98 10,935 £4.82 10,633 £4.93 £5.68 £5.96 £6.37 £6.39 £5.03 £4.42 £5.26 £6.43 £5.66 £6.76 £5.77 £4.27 £4.80 £5.82 £5.51 £4.57
9,798 8,918 8,687 6,861 6,397 6,388 6,019 5,986 5,918 5,772 5,345 5,339 5,288 5,131 4,791 4,403 4,233
Heatseekers Fiction
The Heatseekers charts are compiled using titles by authors who have not appeared in The Official UK Top 50 since Nielsen BookScan records began. As such, they reveal books that are selling well, but not well enough to make the
overall list in a seven-day period. For more Heatseekers charts, visit
thebookseller.com.
18 4th February 2022
Title
1 The Dictionary of Lost Words 2 The Last Thing He Told Me 3 Find Her First
Author
Pip Williams Laura Dave
4 The One Hundred Years... Margot Marianne Cronin 5 The Jigsaw Man 6 The Paris Library 7 A Terrible Kindness 8 Chainsaw Man Vol 2 9 The Ex Hex
10 No One is Talking About This
Imprint Vintage Viper
Emma Christie Welbeck Penguin
Nadine Matheson HQ
Janet Skeslien Charles Two Roads Jo Browning Wroe Tatsuki Fujimoto Erin Sterling
Faber Viz
Patricia Lockwood Bloomsbury
ISBN (+978) 1529113228 1788168595 1787396982 1529176247 0008359430 1529335460
Headline Eternal 1472290281 1526629777
£5.94 £5.63 £5.07 £5.16 £4.93 £5.58
0571368297 £13.07 1974709946
£7.67 £3.83 £7.87
ASP Volume 2,517 2,497 1,587 1,404 1,370 1,369 1,339 1,329 1,298 1,235
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