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a sticker for each book read. If they read six books, they officially completed the chal- lenge and received a special, additional sticker. This year, 58% of participants (390,828) reached the end goal. In addition, 83,419 children joined a library as a new member, and 389,728 kids atended library events.
Hack attack
The agency again ran Reading Hack—the scheme of training young people aged 12–24 to help run the challenge, launched in 2014 thanks to funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation—and this year nearly 7,000 volunteers signed up. They are recruited from schools and youth groups, and many return year aſter year to help younger children over the summer break, said Sarrag. “They get a taste of the working
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wards a more equal % of participants in e boys, up from 44% last d Sarrag said this year’s Mischief Makers (with the helped to get boys onside. ans adored the theme and ed with boys, their dads eir granddads. It was Beano ped for a new generation. oys’ completion rate went ew percentage points, too.” take part in the challenge ren could read any book owed from the library, ther that be fiction, non- on, poetry, picture books audiobooks, and they received
environment and can use it as work experience, or part of their Duke of Edinburgh awards. We don’t just want bookworms and very literate people to take part, it’s for everyone.”
The agency also conducted a
survey of libraries, and 98% said they wanted to take part again in 2019. “I am genuinely touched by the enthusiasm librarians have for the challenge in difficult times,” said Sarrag. “Because they are confident about wanting to take part, they probably have funding in place.” The Reading Agency could do more to work with libraries in terms of training staff and volunteers, and wants to work more closely with schools and make sure they understand the benefits of pupils participating in the Summer Reading Challenge during the school holidays, she added.
Next year is the 20th anni-
versary of the Summer Reading Challenge and theme will be Space Chase, inspired by the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing. The agency is currently looking at opportuni- ties to promote STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematic
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PICTURED ABOVE: ALISON UTTLEY, CREATOR OF THE LITTLE GREY RABBIT SERIES AND BEACONSFIELD RESIDENT, IS TO JOIN ENID BLYTON IN HAVING A PLAQUE IN THE TOWN
In memoriam Beaconsfield to honour former resident Uttley with plaque following local society campaign
Uttley didn’t like [fellow Beaconsfield B
uckinghamshire town Beaconsfield will next month unveil a plaque
dedicated to children’s author and former resident Alison Uttley. Kari Dorme of Te Beaconsfield
Society committee, who campaigned for the plaque to be installed, said she felt “very strongly” that Uttley, whose chil- dren’s books includeA Traveller in Time, Te Country Child and the Little Grey Rabbit series, had been forgotten by the town. Uttley moved to Beaconsfield in
1938 when she was 54, 11 years after the first Little Grey Rabbit title, Te Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit, was published by Heinemann. Her house, Tackers, is still standing and she is buried in the grounds of Penn’s Holy Trinity CofE Church, where her headstone bears the epitaph “Spinner of Tales”. Dorme said she wanted to
celebrate Uttley partly because Te Beaconsfield Society had unveiled a plaque dedicated to another local children’s author, Enid Blyton, in 2013. Uttley didn’t like Blyton, calling her a “vulgar, curled woman”,
resident] Enid Blyton, calling her a ‘vulgar, curled woman’, but
both authors became millionaires from their books
but both authors became millionaires from their books in their lifetimes, said Dorme. “Tey were great rivals. Tey lived in Beaconsfield at the same time (1938 onwards). Enid Blyton died in 1968 and Alison, who was older, outlived her and died in 1976.” Te plaque is being paid for by
Te Beaconsfield Society and will be unveiled in the Beaconsfield Town Council garden, near Enid Blyton’s plaque, on Uttley’s birth- day: 17th December. Uttley has sold 19,152 books
through Nielsen BookScan since records began in 1998, worth £124,004 in value terms. Several of her books are still in print: A Traveller in Time is available from Puffin (the 2007 edition has sold 8,353 copies to date through the TCM), and Templar publishes the Little Grey Rabbit series.
Copies Alison Uttley’s A Traveller in Time has sold in the UK since records began, in 1998
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Top 50 number one spot for the first time, selling 17,491 copies— its highest single-week volume to date. Despite its long tenure in the charts, the junior doctor memoir has kept its momentum. Its August volume was 34% higher than its June equivalent, and last week it jumped 10% week on week. Impressively, it has never dipped below 10,000 copies sold per week (bar its first three days on sale) and, since mid-July, has doggedly shiſted at least 15,000 units weekly. It’s not oſten a title has such the number
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1 This is Going to Hurt 2 A Column of Fire
3 Eleanor Oliphant... Fine 4 Snap 5 Origin
6 The Chalk Man 7 Life of Crime
8 Jamie Cooks Italy 9 Deliciously Ella...
11 The Fall of Gondolin 12 End Game
Author
Adam Kay Ken Follett
Dan Brown C J Tudor
Imprint ISBN
Picador 1509858637 Pan
Gail Honeyman Harper Belinda Bauer Black Swan Corgi
Penguin
Jamie Oliver Ella Mills
TCM total 291,654
648,201 23,500
Volume 17,491
1447278757 30,187 15,031 0008172145 1784160852
0552174169 223,454 1405930956
10 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari Jonathan Cape J R R Tolkien
13 I’ll Keep You Safe 14 Sapiens
15 The Wife Between Us 16 Fairytale 17 The Break
18 The Couple Next Door 19 Last Letter Home 20 Mythos
21 Into the Water
22 Three Things About Elsie 23 The Rooster Bar
24 The Accidental Further... 25 The People vs Alex Cross 26 Surprise Me 27 Damaged
28 The Midnight Line
30 Perfect Silence 31 Normal People
David Baldacci Pan Peter May
Yuval Noah Harari Vintage Hendricks & Pekkanen Pan Danielle Steel Pan Marian Keyes Penguin Shari Lapena Corgi Rachel Hore Stephen Fry
26,579 8,843
18,199
Kimberley Chambers HarperCollins 0008144760 17,305 Michael Joseph 0718187736 48,789 Yellow Kite 1473639218 1787330672
HarperCollins 0008302757 7,985 1447277415 74,948 69,824
riverrun 1784294977 0099590088
704,700
1509842834 43,732 1509800575 38,006 1405918756
0552173148 508,451
Simon & Schuster 1471156960 53,628 Penguin
Paula Hawkins Black Swan Joanna Cannon Borough Press John Grisham Hodder
Jonas Jonasson Fourth Estate James Patterson Arrow Sophie Kinsella Black Swan Martina Cole Headline Lee Child
29 The World’s Worst Children 3 D Walliams & T Ross Helen Fields
32 Where the Light Gets In 33 Do Not Disturb
34 Why Mummy Swears
35 As the Sun Breaks Through 36 Munich 37 Lullaby
38 The Love Letter 39 A Mother’s Courage
40 Dog Man 5: Lord of the Fleas 41 The Tattooist of Auschwitz 42 The Greek Escape
43 The 104-Storey Treehouse 44 Murder Mile
45 A Stranger in the House 46 Nadiya’s Family Favourites 47 Homo Deus
50 Peppa’s Magical Unicorn
1405934138 1784162245 0008196943 1473616998 0008275570 1784753634 1784160432 1472201096
Bantam 0857503619 HarperCollins 0008304591 Avon
Sally Rooney Faber & Faber Lucy Dillon
Gill Sims Ellie Dean
Claire Douglas Michael Joseph HarperCollins Arrow
Robert Harris Arrow
Leila Slimani Faber & Faber Lucinda Riley Pan Dilly Court Dav Pilkey
Arrow Scholastic
Heather Morris Zaffre Pan
Karen Swan
A Griffiths & T Denton Macmillan Lynda La Plante Zaffre Shari Lapena Corgi
48 Wedding Bells for Land Girls 49 Oxford English Mini Dictionary - -
Nadiya Hussain Michael Joseph Yuval Noah Harari Vintage Jenny Holmes Corgi OUP
Week ending 1st September 2018. Key New Up Same Down book sales through around
Black Swan 1784162092 0718187903
214,212 45,288
152,272 28,820 65,359
125,478 123,971 295,405 274,947
0008275174 9,224 0571334643
5,231
26,063 29,916
0008284213 49,522 1784758127 1784751852 0571337545
10,051
117,701 37,540
1509825042 54,918 1784752569 0545935173 1785763649
16,989 4,122
79,044
1509838110 51,039 1509833771 11,909 1785764660
6,758
0552173155 90,400 0241348994 1784703936
Ladybird 0241353783
0552173674 6,642 0199640966 170,803 30,521
Unless otherwise stated, charts use data from Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market, representing print h around 6,500 retailers. Any title discounted by more than 74.5% is ineligible for inclusion.
34,351 303,991 41,994 199,452
14,455 13,477 11,688 10,772 9,443 8,811 8,729 8,386 7,808 6,849 6,421 6,173 6,148 6,144 6,095 5,979 5,956 5,773 5,716 5,649 5,588 5,457 5,423 5,260 5,247 5,184 5,165 5,115 4,902 4,847 4,615 4,468 4,240 4,177 4,137 3,998 3,788 3,515 3,507 3,498 3,458 3,457 3,447 3,443 3,437 3,435 3,432 3,427
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ADAM KAY TOPS THE CHARTS AFTER SPENDING SEVEN WEEKS IN THE TOP TRIO
hit that has spread by word of mouth. Emma Healey’s Elizabeth is Missing spent seven weeks in g the chart before hiting the overall number one spot in 2015, and Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train clocked up 11 weeks in the list before reaching its destination in late March 2015, displaying a similar weekly consistency to This is Going to Hurt. However, while t five months from publication to top spot probably felt
longer than a weekend A&E shiſt to Adam Kay, spare a thought for John Green: The Fault in Our Stars’ original edition, released s in January 2013, didn’t hit the summit until June 2014. This is Going to Hurt, which t also recently racked up a string of Weekly E-Book Ranking number ones, has now spent a total of 19 non- consecutive weeks as the Paperback Non-fiction leader, a run disturbed
only when Anthony McCarten’s Darkest Hour swiped the pole in r June. Since 2010, only Joe Wicks’ Lean in 15 and Millie Marota’s
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professor, complete with a skinny black jeans tucked into work boots.) Yet a doing his undergraduate degree at King’s College, London Francis decided he needed some real-life experience, puting off doing a PhD in English Literature to work as an assistant for Caroline Dawnay, then running the books department at PFD. A few months into agenting, he was hooked: “One of the
have the look of a slightly rumpled junior humanities l te with an elbow-patched jacket and k b ots ) Yet aſter
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