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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


The Official UK Top 50 Rooney’s Intermezzo hits all the right notes


Title 1 Intermezzo £35.1m £35 m  TCM value 35.1m 1m WEEK O WEK ON WEEK +8.9% +8.9.9


The Irish author’s fourth novel débuts at number on


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t’s all change at the top of Nielsen BookScan’s Official UK Top 50 this week with seven new entries


in the Total Consumer Market top 10, led by Sally Rooney’s fourth novel Intermezzo, which comfortably takes the top spot on sales of over 40,000 copies. The Irish author relegates last week’s number one—Richard Osman’s We Solve Murders—into second place. Like Osman before her, though, Rooney’s highly anticipated novel failed to match up to her previous hardback release, with launch week volume sales down 9.7% versus 2021’s Beautiful World, Where Are You. Interestingly, a higher r.r.p. for Intermezzo means that nearly an identical amount of money has been spent with Rooney’s value sales up by about £1,000 to £619,000. It is Rooney’s second overall number one and her eighth time at the Original Fiction summit.


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2 We Solve Murders 3 Simply Jamie   


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4 The Dagger and the Flame 5 Wrath of the Triple Goddess 6 One Of Us Is Dead  


7 The Pumpkin Spice Café 8 Odyssey  


9 An Eye for an Eye 10Jonty Gentoo 


12 


14 


13The Wrong Sister Holly


15It Starts with Us 


16The Dinosaur that Pooped... !    


18The Woman on the Ledge 19The Hotel Avocado 20The 24th Hour  


21We’re Going on a Ghost Hunt 22It Ends with Us  


23A Court of Thorns and Roses 24Let’s Split Up  


27The Last Devil to Die 28Close to Death 29Think Again  


32Daydream 


25Guinness World Records 2025 26The Housemaid   


30Sticker Dolly Dressing... Party 31Want 


33Impossible Creatures  


34The Actually Delicious Slow... 35Yellowface   


36The Housemaid’s Secret 37That’s Not My Pumpkin‥ 38Funnybones  


39The Housemaid Is Watching 40The Figurine   


41A Court of Mist and Fury 42The Thursday Murder Club 43Day One   


44Friends of Dorothy 45The Ball at Versailles 46Sally’s Lament    


47Every Move You Make 48Ottolenghi Comfort 49Moscow X 50The Siege


11A Thousand Feasts Home


Author Sally Rooney


Richard Osman Jamie Oliver


Catherine Doyle Rick Riordan Peter James


Laurie Gilmore Stephen Fry Jeffrey Archer


Harlan Coben Claire Douglas Stephen King Colleen Hoover


17The Cinnamon Bun Book Store Laurie Gilmore Ruth Mancini Bob Mortimer


James Patterson Martha Mumford Colleen Hoover Sarah J Maas Bill Wood -


Freida McFadden Richard Osman


Imprint Faber Viking


ISBN(+978) TCM total Volume 0571365463 41,616 41,607 0241608364 185,167 32,546


Michael Joseph 0241657805 19,691 19,654 Simon & Schuster 1398528376 12,928 12,928 Puffin


Macmillan


One More Chapter0008610678 115,947 11,434 Michael Joseph 0241486351 10,713 10,634 HarperCollins 0008640118


9,019


J Donaldson; A Scheffler Alison Green 0702329432 33,459 Nigel Slater


Fourth Estate 0008670740 8,719


Arrow Books 1784751135 88,656 Penguin Hodder


Tom Fletcher et al Puffin


1405957618 164,061 1399712958 26,697


Simon & Schuster 1398518209 435,225 0241488836 88,230


One More Chapter0008641580 28,654 Cornerstone 1804945230 23,336 Simon & Schuster 1398529625 62,175 Cornerstone 1529160130 Bloomsbury


6,518 1526660404 72,989


Simon & Schuster 1471156267 1,533,028 Bloomsbury Scholastic


1526605399 397,375 0702338526


6,376


Guinness WR 1913484552 14,708 Little, Brown 1408728512 359,706 Penguin


0241992401 314,468


Anthony Horowitz Cornerstone 1804942963 18,590 Jacqueline Wilson Fiona Watt


Bantam Usborne


Gillian Anderson Hannah Grace


Katherine Rundell Poppy O’Toole


Rebecca F Kuang Freida McFadden Fiona Watt


Bloomsbury


Simon & Schuster 1398525740 69,255 Bloomsbury Bloomsbury


1805072645 8,983


0857506108 31,187 1835408407 10,083 1526657954 33,740


1408897430 21,603 1526676993 26,550


Borough Press 0008532819 220,797 Little, Brown 0349132600 226,235 Usborne


Janet & Allan Ahlberg Puffin Books 0140565812 605,342 Freida McFadden Victoria Hislop Sarah J Maas Richard Osman Abigail Dean Sandi Toksvig Danielle Steel Mari Mancusi C L Taylor


Poisoned Pen 1464223310 137,572 Headline Review 1472263940 86,815 Bloomsbury Penguin


1526617163 226,476 0241988268 1,668,277


Hemlock Press 0008389307 11,238 Virago Press Ltd 0349019017 Pan


4,084


Autumn Avon


Y Ottolenghi & H Goh Ebury Press David McCloskey Ben Macintyre


Swift Press Viking


1529085525 15,051 1835446164 10,616 0008601553 10,283 1785038914 21,966 1800752917 23,223 0241675670 17,670


Week ending 28th September 2024. 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.


0241691694 12,775 12,689 1529090017 12,040 11,820


8,961 8,904 8,622 8,471 8,358 7,779 7,477 7,224 6,898 6,655 6,494 6,488 6,327 6,294 6,266 6,162 5,710 5,701 5,591 5,591 5,543 5,183 5,107 4,932 4,813 4,681 4,659 4,465 4,450 4,447 4,323 4,297 4,287 4,284 4,137 4,056 4,026 3,913 3,903 3,893 3,891 3,888


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