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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


New titles thundered into the Mass-Market Fiction chart below the latest Rebus. Though Hamnet claimed the top spot for a third week in total, Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light, the last overall number one (in hardback) of the pre-pandemic era, beamed into third place, selling 16,439 copies.


Dawn French’s Because of


You, Fern Briton’s Daughters of Cornwall and Jo Nesbo’s The Kingdom made their débuts, with Brit Bennet’s Women’s Prize-shortlisted The Vanishing Half and Clare Chambers’ Small Pleasures also chart- ing in the Top 50 in their launch weeks. The Power


of Hope led the way in Hardback Non-fiction, as Raymond Blanc’s


Simply Raymond débuted in second place. The cookbook, at 12,816 copies sold, was far and away the chef’s highest


TCM actual selling price Last 52 Nielsen weeks


£10


Original Fiction Title


1 The Thursday Murder Club 2 Klara and the Sun 3 Sooley


4 The Road Trip 5 Worst Idea Ever 6 Finding Ashley 7 Legacy of War Ariadne


8 


9 A Gambling Man 10 Turn a Blind Eye 11 Sixteen Horses 12 Her Last Holiday 13 The Royal Secret 14 The Bone Code 15 Missing Pieces Crusader


16 


17 The Dream Weavers 18 Lean Fall Stand


20 The Lamplighters


Author


Imprint Richard Osman Viking


Kazuo Ishiguro Faber & Faber John Grisham Hodder... Beth O’Leary Quercus Jane Fallon Penguin Danielle Steel Macmillan


ISBN (+978) 0241425442 0571364879 1529368000 1529409055 1405943369 1529021578


Andrew Taylor HarperCollins


1472273864 1529061772 1509851362 1529027167 0008379223 0008325565


ASP £9.21


£16.34 £13.89 £12.39 £9.29


£11.27


W Smith & D Churchill Bonnier Zaffre 1838772246 £11.44 Jennifer Saint Wildfire David Baldacci Macmillan Jeffrey Archer Macmillan Greg Buchanan Mantle C L Taylor Avon


Kathy Reichs Simon & Schuster 1471188893 Tim Weaver Michael Joseph Ben Kane Orion


Barbara Erskine HarperCollins Jon McGregor Fourth Estate


19 Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Timothy Zahn Del Rey Emma Stonex Picador


Mass-Market Fiction Title


1  Hamnet


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


5 The Midnight Library 6 The Silent Wife 7 Because of You 8 The Sentinel


9 Daughters of Cornwall 10 Here and Now 11 The Kingdom


12 The Postscript Murders £5 £0 £8.44  YEAR ON YEAR n/a%


13 The Coast-to-Coast Murders 14 Small Pleasures 15 The Vanishing Half 16 The Whole Truth 17 A Taste of Home


18 Where the Crawdads Sing 19 The Dinner Guest 20 Grown Ups


0241418734 1409197799 0008195861 0008204907 1529101928 1529047318


£12.88 £14.30 £6.70


£11.68 £11.62 £13.03 £14.47 £13.68


£13.09 £11.55 £11.13 £16.04 £7.77


Volume 5,814 3,779 3,685 3,426 3,320 3,099 2,604 2,541 2,155 2,087 2,077 1,990 1,956 1,707 1,587 1,523 1,405 1,334 1,285 1,282


Author


Imprint


Maggie O’Farrell Tinder Press Ian Rankin Orion


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


Fern Britton HarperCollins


ISBN (+978) 1472223821 1409176992 0007481002 1529019292 1786892737 0008303488 1405927338 0552177429 0008225285


Santa Montefiore Simon & Schuster 1471169694 Jo Nesbo Vintage Elly Griffiths Quercus James Patterson Arrow Clare Chambers W&N Brit Bennett Dialogue Cara Hunter Penguin


1784709105 1787477650 1787465428 1474613903 0349701479 0241985137


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


1472154668 Marian Keyes Penguin


ASP


£6.86 £4.85 £7.26 £5.91 £5.47 £4.42 £4.96 £5.00 £4.72 £4.62 £5.03 £4.97 £4.48 £7.37 £7.49 £5.00 £5.10 £6.10


One More Chapter 0008446086 £6.14 1405918787


£5.22


Volume 16,993 16,882 16,439 15,998 13,862 11,342 11,052 10,472 10,177 9,114 7,270 6,870 6,414 6,349 6,119 6,086 5,894 5,727 5,646 5,443


Heatseekers Fiction


The Heatseekers charts are compiled using titles by authors who have not appeared in The Official UK Top 50 since Nielsen BookScan records began. As such, they reveal books that are selling well, but not well enough to make the


overall list in a seven-day period. For more Heatseekers charts, visit thebookseller.com.


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Title 1  Ariadne


2 Sixteen Horses 3 Exciting Times


4 The Miseducation of Evie... 5 The Never-Ending Summer


7 The Lamplighters


8 My Hero Academia, Vol. 1 9 Until Next Weekend


Author


Imprint


Jennifer Saint Wildfire Greg Buchanan Mantle Naoise Dolan W&N Matson Taylor Scribner Emma Kennedy Arrow


6 Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Timothy Zahn Del Rey Emma Stonex Picador Kohei Horikoshi Viz


Rachel Marks Penguin 10 Death Note Black Edition, Vol. 1 Tsugumi Ohba Viz


ISBN (+978) 1472273864 1529027167 1474613460 1471190834 1787463295 1529101928 1529047318 1421582696 1405940092 1421539645


ASP


£13.09 £16.04 £7.37 £4.97 £4.78


£14.47 £13.68 £7.02 £4.35 £9.86


Volume 2,541 2,077 1,915 1,757 1,519 1,285 1,282 1,149 1,104 1,054


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