37% Exclusive


Nielsen’s TCM was up by 37% in both volume and value on the same week’s figures in 2019


Digital Bestseller Lists Connelly holds firm at the top Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien M


week’s number one


KATE GARRAWAY TOPPED THE CHARTS WITH MEMOIR THE POWER OF HOPE


Ian Rankin’s A Song for the Dark Times hit the right chord with book buyers, becoming the second-highest new entry in the Top 50 and claiming the runner-up spot to Hamnet in the Mass-Market Fiction chart. With bookshops in Scotland opening last week for the first time since the national lockdown, it could be that book buyers opted to support one of their own—we’ve seen before, in the


Scotland charts, that Rankin’s titles tend to chart far higher than in the UK-wide TCM charts. Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-winner Shuggie Bain—the writer is also the first Scotish author to take the crown since 1994—continued to chart in the top five in its third week on sale.


The print market sold 3.7 million books for £31.3m, a heſty week-on-week rise of 18.4% in volume and 17.7%


in value. Volume rose to a level higher than the first week book- shops reopened in England and Wales in mid-April. For a usually sluggish time of year, the market was bustling, with last week’s figures 37% up in both measures on the same week in 2019. Continues overleaf 


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ichael Connelly’s Fair Warning claimed the Bookstat e-book number one for a second week running, reigning atop the chart for


the week ending 1st May. Though, of course, six days of that week fell at the end of April, the chart didn’t see the usual onrush of new Kindle Unlimited titles it usually does for the turn of the month, but perhaps their impact will be felt more emphatically in the first full week of May. Kaira Rouda’s The Next Wife was the highest-


charting Kindle Unlimited title, in second, with Gail Schimmel’s The Aftermath and Ann Garvin’s I Thought You Said This Would Work débuting in sixth and ninth respectively. The Next Wife’s volume last week, as estimated through Bookstat, was just under 12,000 units—impressive, of course, but noticeably lower than the 50,000-plus levels Kindle Unlimited titles can achieve. Lee and Andrew Child’s The Sentinel returned


to the top of the Publisher E-Book Ranking for the week ending 24th April. J R Ward’s Lover Unveiled


Bookstat E-Book Top 10 1 


Title Fair Warning 2 The Next Wife


3 An Offer You Can’t Refuse 4 The Venice Sketchbook


5 The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde 6 The Aftermath 7 The Wild Silence 8 Cook, Eat, Repeat


10 Invisible Girl Author


KAIRA ROUDA LED THE NEW KINDLE UNLIMITED TITLES


was the highest new entry, with fellow fantasy title Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone getting the “Bridgerton” treatment and rising into the chart following its Netflix adaptation dropping.


Clarification Hachette has stated that Fair Warning sold 9,354 copies; and An Offer You Can’t Refuse 6,431.


Imprint Michael Connelly Orion


Kaira Rouda Thomas & Mercer Jill Mansell Headline Review Rhys Bowen Lake Union Eve Chase Penguin Gail Schimmel Lake Union Raynor Winn Michael Joseph Nigella Lawson Vintage


9 I Thought You Said This Would... Ann Garvin Lake Union Lisa Jewell Cornerstone


ISBN (+978) Volume 1409199090 1542025942 1473691247 1542027120 1405919340 0241957479 0241401460 1784743666 1542022330 1787461505


Data source Bookstat. Week ending 1st May 2021. Bookstat generates its charts by tracking the movement of e-books, print books and audio titles on online retailers’ websites and calibrating against publisher-supplied data; the volume and value figures are estimates. For more information, contact info@bookstat.com.


The Publisher E-Book Ranking 1 


Title 2 


The Sentinel Hamnet


3 Shuggie Bain 4 Lover Unveiled 5 Playing Nice


6 The Thursday Murder Club 7 Last Night


8 American Dirt


9 Where the Crawdads Sing 10 Shadow and Bone


Author


15,760 11,794 11,567 11,304 9,502 9,145 9,113 8,368 8,246 8,007


Imprint


Lee & Andrew Child Transworld Maggie O’Farrell Headline Douglas Stuart Picador J R Ward


J P Delaney Quercus Richard Osman Viking


Mhairi McFarlane HarperCollins Jeanine Cummins Headline Delia Owens Little, Brown


Little, Brown


ISBN (+978) 1473579033 1472223814 1529019308 0349420554 1529400878 0241988275 0008169527 1472261380 1472154637


Leigh Bardugo Hachette Children’s 1780621838


List price £4.99 £5.99 £5.99 £9.99 £2.99 £7.99 £4.99 £4.99 £4.99 £4.99


Week ending 24th April 2021. Key New Up Same Down. Titles with a selling price below £2 are excluded, as are titles priced £4.50 or below with any print versions priced above £17.99. Participating publishers: PRH UK, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Simon & Schuster, Bonnier Zaffre, Canongate & Joffe Books.


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