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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


The Official UK Top 50 Garraway leads the way as new entries fly


Title £31.3m  TCM value


WEEK ON WEEK +17.7%


Broadcaster Kate Garraway shot to the top of the charts in a week which saw book sales rocket, and a number of new entries hit the charts


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ate Garraway’s The Power of Hope has claimed the Official UK Top 50 number one spot, soaring to the top with 22,394 copies sold. The TV presenter’s memoir, about her husband’s year-long struggle with Covid-19 and how she held on to hope through his illness, ended the run of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet in the top spot, and leap- frogged Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse to hit the Hardback Non-Fiction number one spot. The Power of Hope is the second (and likely not the last) Covid patient memoir to hit the book charts, following Michael Rosen’s Many Different Ways to Love, which charted in the Hardback Non-fiction top five in late March.


12 7th May 2021


1 The Power of Hope Hamnet


2 


3 A Song for the Dark Times 4 The Mirror and the Light 5 Shuggie Bain


6 The Midnight Library 7 Simply Raymond 8 The Silent Wife 9 Because of You 10 The Sentinel


11 Daughters of Cornwall 12 Here and Now


13 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox... 14 The Kingdom


15 The Postscript Murders 16 Pinch of Nom Quick & Easy 17 The Coast-to-Coast Murders 18 Small Pleasures


19 Philip:The Final Portrait 20 The Vanishing Half 21 The Whole Truth 22 A Taste of Home


23 The Thursday Murder Club 24 Where the Crawdads Sing 25 The Dinner Guest 26 Cat’s Cookbook 27 Grown Ups


28 How to Wean Your Baby 29 Captain Tom’s Life Lessons 30 Moonflower Murders 31 Home Stretch 32 Private Moscow


33 Secrets at Bletchley Park 34 The End of Her


Author; Illustrator Imprint


Kate Garraway Bantam Maggie O’Farrell Tinder Ian Rankin Orion


Hilary Mantel Fourth Estate Douglas Stuart Picador Matt Haig Canongate Raymond Blanc Headline Karin Slaughter HarperCollins Dawn French Penguin Lee & Andrew Child Corgi


Fern Britton HarperCollins ISBN


1787635005 1472223821 1409176992 0007481002 1529019292 1786892737 1472267603 0008303488 1405927338 0552177429 0008225285


Santa Montefiore Simon & Schuster 1471169694 Charlie Mackesy Ebury 1529105100 Jo Nesbo Vintage Elly Griffiths Quercus Featherstone & Allinson Bluebird James Patterson Arrow Clare Chambers W&N Gyles Brandreth Coronet Brit Bennett Dialogue Cara Hunter Penguin


1784709105 1787477650


Heidi Swain Simon & Schuster 1471195822 Richard Osman Viking Delia Owens Corsair B P Walter


Donaldson; Scheffler Macmillan... 1529034363 Marian Keyes Penguin Charlotte Stirling-Reed Vermilion Captain Tom Moore Michael Joseph Anthony Horowitz Arrow Graham Norton Coronet J Patterson & A Hamdy Arrow Margaret Dickinson Pan Shari Lapena Corgi


35 The Official Highway Code - TSO 36 The Darkest Evening 37 The Power of Geography 38 Faceless


39 What the Ladybird... Seaside 40 American Dirt


41 Klara and the Sun 42 The Wedding Dress 43 Healing is the New High 44 Sooley


45 Good Vibes, Good Life


1783965373 0755374106


TCM total 22,419 93,850 16,984 16,448 50,195


110,576 13,069 35,720 11,239


122,335 10,308 30,440


1,087,491 7,413


24,782


1529034981 270,882 1787465428 1474613903 1444769579 0349701479 0241985137


11,566 6,813 7,990 6,672 6,328 5,941


0241425442 1472154668


1405918787 1785043246 0241504017 1787464193 1473665163


646,277 348,812


47,302 5,401


21,738 5,335 4,963


1787464438 37,061 34,890


Ann Cleeves Pan 1509889556 Tim Marshall Elliott & Thom... Martina Cole Headline


1472261403 0571364879


899,548 41,397 9,688


36,553


J Donaldson; L Monks Macmillan... 1529023152 22,798 Jeanine Cummins Tinder Press Kazuo Ishiguro Faber & Faber


46 Dog Man 10: Mothering Heights Dav Pilkey 47 They Both Die at the End 48 Still Life


49 The Road Trip 50 Miss Benson’s Beetle


Danielle Steel Pan 1509878086 Vex King Hay House John Grisham Hodder... Vex King Hay House Scholastic


Adam Silvera S&S Children’s Val McDermid Sphere Beth O’Leary Quercus Rachel Joyce Black Swan


1788174770 1529368000 1788171823 1338680454 1471166204 0751576948 1529409055 0552779487


31,656 35,310 32,029 21,133 3,720


179,640 30,813 59,744 31,298 3,516


20,395


Week ending 1st May 2021. 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.


Volume 22,394 16,993 16,882 16,439 15,998 13,862 12,816 11,342 11,052 10,472 10,177 9,114 9,016 7,270 6,870 6,693 6,414 6,349 6,148 6,119 6,086 5,894 5,814 5,727


One More Chapter 0008446086 25,419 5,646 5,637


5,462 5,443 5,307 5,274 5,201 4,864 4,663


1529018516 4,764 4,619 0552177030 0115533426


4,480 4,213 4,188 4,176 3,937 3,853 3,823 3,779 3,753 3,749 3,685 3,573 3,563 3,560 3,510 3,426 3,397


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