Children’s bestsellers (pp38-39) is this week’s Market Spotlight
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Popular Last Words: digital top spot reclaimed by Gillian McAllister
REPORTING Alex Call
illian McAllister’s (
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Words has returned to the top of the E-Book charts,
displacing JM Dalgliesh’s Death at Neist Point which has fallen out of the chart entirely, according to the latest data from Bookstat. Despite McAllister’s sales falling 9.6%, Famous Last Words moves
Bookstat E-Book Top 10 Data source Bookstat. Week ending 30th August 2025.
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Famous Last Words
Gillian McAllister Penguin, 9781405957328
The Burnout
Sophie Kinsella Transworld, 9781529198614
Frankie
Graham Norton Coronet, 9781529391466
The Teacher 5,391
Freida McFadden Hollywood Upstairs Press, 9781464221378
The Black Loch
Peter May Hodder & Stoughton, 9781529436082
6 Instructions for a Heatwave Maggie O'Farrell Tinder Press, 9780755386833 7 Nothing to See Here Susan Lewis HarperCollins, 9780008472054 8 An Almost Perfect Summer Jill Mansell Headline Review, 9781035410019 Penguin, 9780241988275 4,733 4,422 4,306 9 The Thursday Murder Club Richard Osman 10 The Boyfriend Freida McFadden Hollywood Upstairs Press, 9781464221408 3,744 3,711 5,031 6,754 7,011 7,197
into pole position, climbing one place compared with the previous week – a boost replicated by Sophie Kinsella’s The Burnout, which enjoys a 22.5% rise in sales, climbing from third to second place. Graham Norton’s Frankie takes
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third place – sales for Norton’s latest have climbed 86.7% to 6,754 down- loads. Although it is not all good news for Bookstat’s estimates of the Top 10 – in total, the chart has sold 52,300 copies, down 3.1% from the
Publisher E-Book Ranking Data source Publisher-supplied. Week ending 23rd August 2025.
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Nothing to See Here Susan Lewis HarperCollins, 9780008472030
Rock, Paper, Scissors Alice Feeney HQ, 9780008371005
The Thursday Murder Club Richard Osman Viking Adult, 9780241988275
Entitled Andrew Lownie William Collins, 9780008775476
The Names
Florence Knapp Phoenix, 9781399624053
6 Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349437040 7 Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349436982 8 Broken Country Clare Leslie Hall John Murray, 9781399820448 9 The Women Kristin Hannah Macmillan, 9781035005703 10 Onyx Storm Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349437088
Audible Audio Top 10 Data source Audible. Week ending 30th August 2025.
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The Let Them Theory Mel Robbins Audible Studios, 9781788176187
The Thursday Murder Club Richard Osman Penguin, 9780241988268
Don’t Let Him in Lisa Jewell Penguin, 9781529196016
Entitled Andrew Lownie William Collins, 9780008775452
The Night She Disappeared Lisa Jewell Penguin, 9781529156270
6 The Wedding People Alison Espach Phoenix, 9781399622752 7 Harry Potter and the… Stone JK Rowling Pottermore, 9781408855652 8 The Names Florence Knapp Phoenix, 9781399624022 9 The Man Who Died Twice Richard Osman Penguin, 9780241988244 10 Friends of Dorothy Sandi Toksvig Little, Brown, 9780349019017 37
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Bookstat Top 10 Bookstat tracks e-books, print books and audio titles through online retailers and calibrates against publisher-supplied data; volume figures are estimates. Publisher E-Book Ranking Titles with a selling price below £2 are excluded, as are those priced £4.50 or below with any print versions priced above £17.99. Participating publishers: Bonnier Books UK, Bloomsbury, Hachette, HarperCollins, Joffe Books, Pan Macmillan and Penguin Random House.
previous week’s total of 53,944. While the TCM charts have seen a large case of new releases – especially in hardback – they do not make a dent in the e-book charts, with only two re-entries shaking up the Top 10. Maggie O’Farrell’s Instructions for a Heatwave takes sixth place with 4,733 copies – taking advantage of the last hot days of summer – while Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club returns to the e-book chart in ninth place following the Netflix adaptation of the gang hitting screens last Thursday.
NB Hachette has stated Frankie has sold 9,162 copies; The Black Loch 5,656; Instructions for a Heatwave 4,113 and An Almost Perfect Summer 5,390
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