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Return to sender: Virginia Evans reclaims indie number one


REPORTING Alex Call


fter a gap of a week, Virginia Evans’ ( 2) Women’s Prize- winning novel The Correspondent has


returned to the top of the Independent Bookshop Top 20, according to the latest data from NielsenIQ BookData. It moves up to the position previ- ously held by Rabih Alameddine


whose 2015 novel An Unnecessary Woman made it to the top thanks to a slot in the ShelterBox Book Club – thus no surprise to see its spike last just one week. Not all subscription boxes report


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into NielsenIQ’s indie bookshop listing – but one that does and has had an impact this week is The Broken Binding. Thanks to their special edition, Malice by John Gwynne, first published in 2012, has appeared in second place in


Independent Bookshop Top 10 Data source NielsenIQ Book Data. Week ending 4th July 2026.


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The Correspondent Virginia Evans Penguin, 9781405971553


Malice


John Gwynne Tor, 9780241404737


The Heart of the Nhaga Lee Young-do, Anton Hur (trans) HarperVoyager, 9780008651107


Heartstopper Volume 6 Alice Oseman


Hodder Children’s, 9781444974881


What We Can Know Ian McEwan Vintage, 9781529959208


6  The Artist Lucy Steeds 7  Land Maggie O’Farrell Phoenix, 9781399624046 Viking, 9780241814307 John Murray, 9781399819589 Tinder Press, 9781472289087 8  The Names Florence Knapp 9  The Things We Never Say Elizabeth Strout 10  Yesteryear Caro Claire Burke 4th Estate, 9780008742768


Publisher E-Book Ranking Data source Publisher-supplied. Week ending 27th June 2026.


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Yesteryear Caro Claire Burke 4th Estate, 9780008742782


The Mistake Elle Kennedy Piatkus, 9780349440866


The Score Elle Kennedy Piatkus, 9780349440910


The Names


Florence Knapp Phoenix, 9781399624053


The Correspondent Virginia Evans


Michael Joseph Fiction, 9780241721278 6  Theo of Golden Allen Levi Fontana, 9780008819439 7  The Goal Elle Kennedy Piatkus, 9780349440880 8  His & Hers Alice Feeney HQ, 9780008370954 9  The Ballad of Falling Dragons Sarah A Parker HarperVoyager, 9780008710354 10  The Deal Elle Kennedy Piatkus, 9780349440835


Audible Audio Top 10 Data source Audible. Week ending 4th July 2026.


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It Could Have Been Her Lisa Jewell Penguin, 9781529195996


Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams Macmillan, 9781035065967


Regime Change


Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan Simon & Schuster, 9781398567597


Yesteryear Caro Claire Burke 4th Estate, 9780008742768


Project Hail Mary Andy Weir Audible Studios, 9781529157468


6  Dungeon Crawler Carl Matt Dinniman Audible Studios, 9780241816264 7  London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe Picador, 9781035056279 8  Harry Potter and the Deathly… JK Rowling Pottermore, 9781408855713 9  …Philosopher’s Stone (Full-Cast) JK Rowling Pottermore, 9781408855652 10  The Defence Rob Rinder Penguin, 9781529934779 37


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The full Independent Bookshop Top 20 can be found on The Bookseller’s bestseller pages. The Bookseller has adjusted the Independent Bookshop chart to remove some titles where sales do not derive from traditional bricks-and-mortar bookshops, such as exhibition catalogues and those featured on conglomerates’ subscription boxes.


the Indie Top 20 this week. NielsenIQ does not reveal sales data for indie bookshops, but the hardback edition of the first book in Gwynne’s The Faithful and the Fallen series has sold 3,165 copies in the TCM in the past seven days, despite not having previously sold any copies since 2015. Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper


Volume 6, which has made it to the top of the UK-wide Top 50, falls a little short of that with the indies, taking up fourth place instead. It fares a little better than Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets – the latest Robert Langdon thriller is second in the TCM but fails to make a mark in the Indie Top 20.


AUSTIN JOFFE


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