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immigrants who travel to the US to forge a new world. Dublin- ite Liz Nugent’s Lying in Wait charts eighth; she is the only Irish author in the most recent Richard & Judy Book Club batch. Louise O’Neill’s Asking for


Graham Norton’s début novel has proved popular in his homeland, topping the country’s chart covering January’s sales


Girl on the Train representing the rest of the best of British in the January chart. Aussie Kayla Itsines joins Wicks in the Instagram- personal-trainer-turned-best- selling-author category, with her The Bikini Body. As in the UK, the trend seems to have usurped that of ubiquitous YouTuber memoirs.


Ireland isn’t called the land of saints and scholars for no reason, and the country with the highest ratio of Man Booker Prize wins per capita is no slouch when it comes to backing its own. Ireland’s biggest-


of saints and


selling book of the year to date is Graham Norton’s Holding, which has shiſted 2,298 copies and claims the number one spot. Holding is not only writ- ten by an Irish celebrit, it’s also set in Ireland (a rainy village in Duneen), a rarit for a commer- cial crime novel. Sebastian Barry, with Costa Book of the Year Days Without End, is another Irish writer in the top 20. Like Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn, which flew up the Irish charts last year on the film adaptation’s release, Days Without End concerns early Irish


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The country with the highest ratio of Man Booker Prize wins per capita is no slouch when it comes to backing its own... Ireland’s biggest- selling book of the year to date is Graham Norton’s Holding


It, shortlisted for the YA Book Prize in 2016, is still racking up the sales, nearly six months aſter its publication. It shiſted 1,188 copies in January. Remember when you thought the UK print market’s 7% rise in value in 2016 was impressive? Well, the Irish market grew a sparkling 10.8% in value (and 9% in volume) last year. Its €130m haul was its best since 2011. Its worth was around 7% of that of the UK print market in 2016—pleasingly, the population of Ireland is also 7% that of the UK’s. Given the countries’ close trading ties, Ireland’s surge may have had as much to do with the pound’s dramatic drop as it did the qualit of publishing; its sales in 2017 should give a clearer indication. ×


Ireland (Overall) title 1 Holding 2 Lean in 15: The Sustain Plan author


Graham Norton Joe Wicks


Jeff Kinney


imprint isbn (978+) Hodder Bluebird


3 The Official Driver Theory... CD-ROM - Prometric Ireland 4 Double Down


Puffin


5 The 7th Edition... Driver Theory Test - Prometric Ireland 6 Days Without End 7 The Midnight Gang 8 Lying in Wait 9 Lean in 15


Sebastian Barry David Walliams Liz Nugent Joe Wicks


10 Talking to Strangers... Being Human 11 Commit!


12 Mathematical Tables


13 The Bikini Body... Lifestyle Guide 14 My Life Goals Journal


15 When Breath Becomes Air 16 The Girl on the Train


17 Lean in 15: The Shape Plan 18 Asking for it


19 The Money Doctor


Michael Harding Enda McNulty


Faber & Faber HC Children’s Penguin Bluebird


- Stationery Office Kayla Itsines Andrea Hayes Paul Kalanithi Paula Hawkins Joe Wicks


Bluebird Gill


Vintage


Louise O’Neill John Lowe


Black Swan Bluebird Quercus Gill


20 Project Maths 60 Page Graph Copy - educate.ie units


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0141373010 2,314 0995513020


0571277018 2,055 0008188573 2,044 0241974063 1,889 1509800667 1,708


Hachette Ireland 1473623576 1,518 Penguin Ireland


0241287095 1,516 1406422832


1,478


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1,115 2,469 2,135 Home support


Irish Book of the Year winner Donal Ryan may have had to go back to his day job to pay the mortgage, but he’s still a bestseller on home soil. His new title All We Shall Know, about a young married teacher who finds herself pregnant after a brief affair with a teenage traveller, was tside the top 40 bestselling


books of the year to date, and in the, and in the literary fiction topfiction top 10. In comparison, the hardback has sold just 1,718 in the UK since September.


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18 nc Air-raising Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath


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to die”. It’s also the 17-released op 20op 2


Becomes Air hit fourth place in the last week in January, and it’s the second-bestselling autobiography of the year to date (trailing Irish writer Michael Harding). The neuro- surgeon’s posthumous memoir was ed by


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Date range 1st–28th January 2017 The chart uses data from Nielsen BookScan US’ Total Consumer Market.


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