10th July 2026


11,222 Charts Fiction Original Fiction 1


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John Gwynne Malice Tor, £16.99, 9780230758452 Perhaps one of the most surprising re-entries of the week is this 2012 novel from Gwynne, returning to the Original Fiction chart after 14 years. It has sold 3,165 copies this week, having not previously sold any copies since 2015. Its reappearance is thanks to a special edition from The Broken Binding that shipped last week alongside sequel Valour, which has not reappeared in the TCM. The paperback edition of Malice has sold 100 copies in the most recent week and a total of 59,304 since it was first published in 2013.


3,165 TCM copies sold


 It Could Have Been Her


Lisa Jewell Century, 9781529195996, £11.57


Yesteryear


Caro Claire Burke 4th Estate, 9780008742768, £11.82


Land


Maggie O’Farrell Tinder Press, 9781472289087, £18.14


Malice


John Gwynne Tor, 9780230758452, £16.99


Weddings Danielle Steel Macmillan, 9781529086225, £13.63 6  The Things We Never Say Elizabeth Strout Viking, 9780241814307, £17.71 7  The Midnight Train Matt Haig Canongate, 9781837262137, £14.07 HarperVoyager, 9780008651107, £18.83 Sphere, 9781408722022, £17.47 2,287 2,240 8  The Heart… Nhaga L Young-do, A Hur (trans) 9  The Shadow Step Mark Billingham And Other Stories, 9781916751651, £14.64 2,191 2,013 10  Taiwan Travelogue Y Shuāng-zi; L King (trans) 11  Daggermouth HM Wolfe Macmillan, 9781037406522, £16.50 12  The Secrets We Hide Karin Slaughter HarperCollins, 9780008771133, £12.23 13  The Defence Rob Rinder Century, 9781529934779, £12.76 14  Yesteryear Caro Claire Burke Fourth Estate, 9780008742775, £12.86 HarperVoyager, 9780008710330, £14.61 Faber, 9780571387458, £14.10 1,886 1,735 1,650 1,644 1,542 15  The Ballad of Falling Dragons Sarah A Parker 16  I Want You to Be Happy Jem Calder 17  Dungeon Crawler Carl Matt Dinnman Michael Joseph, 9780241816264, £20.33 18  John of John Douglas Stuart Picador, 9781035086955, £18.60 19  The Island Secret Lorraine Kelly Orion, 9781398714502, £12.54 20  Icarus 17 Charles Cumming 34 Hemlock Press, 9780008696337, £17.77 1,514 1,448 1,296 1,240 1,202 1,123 2,397 3,165 4,472 6,861 11,222 Mass-Market Fiction 1


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 The Secret of Secrets 22,753


Dan Brown Penguin (Transworld), 9780552178013, £5.16


The Correspondent


Virginia Evans Penguin, 9781405971553, £8.43


3 The Divorce 11,587


Freida McFadden Poisoned Pen Press, 9781464280191, £5.79


The Names


Florence Knapp Phoenix, 9781399624046, £6.03


The Family Friend


Claire Douglas Penguin, 9781405978972, £5.72


6  The Widow John Grisham Hodder, 9781399703437, £6.69 7  The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman Penguin, 9781405975735, £6.30 8  The Hallmarked Man Robert Galbraith Sphere, 9781408723807, £6.28 9  My Husband’s Wife Alice Feeney Pan, 9781035083022, £7.06 10  Boleyn Traitor Philippa Gregory 11  The Long Shoe Bob Mortimer Gallery, 9781398548084, £6.74 12  The Last Love Song L Riley, H Whittaker Pan, 9781035072095, £5.34 13  The Artist Lucy Steeds Pan, 9781529098884, £7.17 John Murray, 9781399819589, £9.44 14  So, I Met This Guy… Alexandra Potter 15  We All Live Here Jojo Moyes Penguin, 9781405943475, £6.79 16  By Your Side Ruth Jones HarperCollins, 9780008745028, £5.57 9,476 8,884 8,474 8,065 7,437 6,437 6,268 5,753 5,379 5,261 8 Penguin (Transworld), 9781804994405, £6.33 4,895 17  Never Flinch Stephen King Godder, 9781399744379, £6.42 Poisoned Pen Press, 9781628861891, £5.29 Pan, 9781035045952, £6.30 4,841 9 18  The Housemaid’s Wedding Freida McFadden 19  Summer Island Kristin Hannah 20  Silent Bones Val McDermid Sphere, 9781408734056, £6.41 4,753 4,732 10 4,719


Chainsaw Man, Vol 21 Tatsuki Fujimoto Viz Media, £8.92, 9781974716463


Daggermouth HM Wolfe Macmillan, £16.50, 9781037406522


I Who Have Never Known Men J Harpman; R Schwartz Vintage, £9.24, 9781529111798


All Fiction charts © NielsenIQ BookScan 2,119 TCM copies sold 7 6 10,520 5 11,152 4 17,362 2


Malice John Gwynne Tor, £16.99, 9780230758452


The Eights Joanna Miller Penguin, £8.73, 9780241662441


The Missing Dead JM Dalgliesh Transworld, £6.30, 9781837320547


Once Upon a Demon’s Heart KM Moronova Cornerstone, £6.20, 9781804962589


The Heart of the Nhaga L Young-do; A Hur (tr) HarperVoyager, £18.83, 9780008651107


Lisa Jewell enters the top spot in Original Fiction with It Could Have Been Her, selling 11,222 copies in its first week on sale


ANDREW WHITTON


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