5th September 2025


13,936 Charts Fiction Original Fiction 1


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Adele Parks Our Beautiful Mess HQ, £16.99, 9780008586379 Celebrating 25 years since the release of her debut novel Playing Away, Parks has released an indirect sequel in Our Beautiful Mess, which checks in on the former’s lead character Connie. In its first week on sale the latest thriller has sold 4,224 copies – up 129.1% compared to 2024’s First Wife’s Shadow, and giving Parks her best first-week hardback performance to date. Across all editions of her books Parks has sold 2.2 million books since 2000.


4,224 TCM copies sold


 Katabasis 43,621


RF Kuang HarperVoyager, 9780008501860, £19.89


A Particularly Nasty Case Adam Kay


Orion, 9781398704404, £10.66 Dire Bound


Sable Sorensen Wayward TxF, 9781911751205, £17.51


Picture Imperfect


Jacqueline Wilson Bantam, 9780857507631, £14.91


Our Beautiful Mess Adele Parks


HQ, 9780008586379, £10.58 6  Boudicca’s Daughter Elodie Harper Apollo, 9781804544631, £17.28 7  Quicksilver Callie Hart Hodderscape, 9781399751285, £15.38 8  Evil in High Places Rory Clements Viking, 9780241728185, £12.84 9  House of Two Pharaohs Wilbur Smith Zaffre, 9781838776381, £14.79 10  The Artist Lucy Steeds John Murray, 9781399819565, £16.19 11  The Names Florence Knapp Phoenix, 9781399624022, £14.26 12  Don’t Let Him in Lisa Jewell Century, 9781529196016, £11.74 13  Not Quite Dead Yet Holly Jackson Michael Joseph, 9780241753682, £13.35 14  Onyx Storm Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349437064, £16.16 15  Atmosphere Taylor Jenkins Reid 16  Paper Heart Cecelia Ahern 17  Wolf Hour Jo Nesbo 2,636 2,342 1,773 1,749 1,699 1,683 1,650 1,546 1,320 Hutchinson Heinemann, 9781529152975, £13.55 1,274 HarperCollins, 9780008608194, £15.81 Harvill Secker, 9781787303768, £12.65 Gollancz, 9781399616072, £19.72 1,252 1,217 18  Tales of a Deadly Devotion Jennifer Delaney 19  For Richer for Poorer Danielle Steele Macmillan, 9781529085983, £10.99 20  Shield of Sparrows Devney Perry 34 Red Tower Books, 9781911750000, £11.90 1,158 1,120 1,095 4,224 7,261 9,404 13,936 Mass-Market Fiction 1


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 The Surrogate Mother 11,499


Freida McFadden Poisoned Pen Press, 9781464228605, £4.50


You Are Here


David Nicholls Hodder, 9781444715460, £7.09


We Solve Murders


Richard Osman Penguin, 9780241997482, £6.75


The Housemaid


Freida McFadden Little, Brown, 9781408728512, £4.50


The Thursday Murder Club


Richard Osman Penguin, 9780241988268, £6.17


6  Do Not Disturb Freida McFadden Penguin, 9781405957656, £6.77 5 Poisoned Pen Press, 9781464228582, £4.04 7  The New Neighbours Claire Douglas Bloomsbury, 9781526605399, £5.69 Arrow, 9780099559559, £5.70 Gallery, 9781398529656, £7.12 6,824 6,125 8  A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J Maas 9  The House We Grew Up in Lisa Jewell 10  The Hotel Avocado Bob Mortimer 11  The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden Penguin, 9780241999776, £8.79 12  Don’t Believe a Word Susan Lewis HarperCollins, 9780008472108, £5.17 13  The Blue Hour Paula Hawkins Phoenix, 9781399622752, £8.58 6 6,099 6,045 5,980 5,801 5,792 Penguin (Transworld), 9781804995334, £6.08 5,737 14  The Wedding People Alison Espach Penguin, 9781405985840, £5.49 5,639 15  The Thursday Murder Club Richard Osman Little, Brown, 9780349132600, £4.01 8 5,509 16  The Housemaid’s Secret Freida McFadden 17  The God of the Woods Liz Moore Penguin, 9780241988749, £8.23 Pan, 9781035047963, £6.01 The Borough Press, 9780008663834, £7.78 18  There Are Rivers in the Sky Elif Shafak 5,278 9 4,659 4,485 19  The Hidden Girl Lucinda Riley, H Whittaker 20  The Black Loch Peter May riverrun, 9781529436105, £6.55 10 4,166 4,126 All Fiction charts © NielsenIQ BookScan


Strange Pictures Uketsu, Jim Rion (trans) Pushkin, £14.47, 9781805335399


The Full Moon… Mai Mochizuki; J Kirkwood (trans) Brazen, £10.19, 9781914240942


Love, Mom Iliana Xander Penguin, £5.64, 9781405983822


1,473 TCM copies sold 7


The Names Florence Knapp Phoenix, £14.26, 9781399624022


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Boudicca's Daughter Elodie Harper Apollo, £17.28, 9781804544631


Strange Houses Uketsu, Jim Rion (trans) Pushkin, £14.09, 9781805335375


I Who Have Never Known… J Harpman Vintage, £9.31, 9781529111798


The Artist Lucy Steeds John Murray, £16.19, 9781399819565


Adam Kay’s debut crime novel, A Particularly Nasty Case, takes second place in the Original Fiction chart with 13,936 copies sold in its first week


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