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AVID WALLIAMS’ BAD Dad has zoomed straight into the Official UK Top 50


number one spot, selling 92,667 copies to become the fastest- selling Children’s title since


Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, according to Nielsen Book- Scan’s Total Consumer Market. It is Walliams’ ninth overall number one of the year so far, aſter World Book Day title Blob and short-story collection The World’s Worst Children 2 each racked up four weeks apiece. Bad Dad’s stunning first week sale is Walliams’ third-highest single-week volume to date, and as his titles tend to soar in their second week on sale, it will likely smash some records in the coming weeks. Blob is Walliams’ only title to shiſt more than 100,000 copies in a single week, but as his 2016 Christmas cracker The Midnight Gang leapt by 32% aſter its launch week, Bad Dad seems oised t


perfectly poised to post a six-figure sale next week.


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23rd in 2017 (and 101st over- all). However, aſter an uninter- rupted 13-week run at the top from January to early April, the comedian-turned-author has suffered from a bit of a dry spell for the past 16 weeks, which has been his longest spell without a Children’s number one since mid-2014. But if Bad Dad stays in the category chart number one from now until the end of the year—and it almost certainly will—Walliams will have spent more than half of 2017 (31 weeks) as the Chil- er one. s’ Need


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title 4 Origin


2 La Belle Sauvage 1 The Rooster Bar 1 Need You Dead 1 The G Plan Diet 6 A Column of Fire


author imprint Dan Brown


Philip Pullman John Grisham Peter James


7 20 Eleanor Oliphant... Completely Fine Gail Honeyman 8 12 The Keeper of Lost Things 8 The Break


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10 2 What Happened 11 1 Leopard’s Blood 12 6 Munich


13 36 The Couple Next Door


Ruth Hogan Marian Keyes


Transworld RHCP


Hodder Macmillan


Amanda Hamilton Octopus Ken Follett


Macmillan


HarperCollins Hodder


Michael Joseph


Hillary Rodham Clinton S&S Christine Feehan Robert Harris Shari Lapena


14 8 The Girl Who Takes... Eye for an Eye David Lagercrantz 15 1 His Dark Materials... Trilogy 16 21 The Handmaid’s Tale 17 1 The Snowman


Philip Pullman


Margaret Atwood Jo Nesbo


18 1 Brave New World: Inside... Spurs 19 2 Why Mummy Drinks


20 3 Moonlight Over Manhattan


The Book of Dust series, La Belle Sauvage, giving the title its third weekly digital pole. However, Pullman’s original His Dark Mate- rials trilogy entered the chart to join its “equel”, hiting 15th place. It is the first time that more than one (counting the trilogy as one book, rather than three) children’s title has charted in the ranking since early May, when US fantasy authors Sarah J Maas and Rick Riordan both featured. Never before has a kids’ author had multiple titles in a single weekly ranking.


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The usually female-author-dominated list has been topped by four male writers in the past five weeks, with Marian Keyes the last woman to ascend to the top of the chart back in early September, with The Break. However, this comes aſter 14 straight weeks of female number ones, which included a seven-week run for Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale’s Tale. John Grisham’s The Rooster Bar was the highest new entr in third place. It is author’ second hardback to chart in the weekly ranking in 2017. Earlier this year Camino Island ook


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AN BROWN’S ORIGIN re-claimed the Weekly E-Book Ranking number one from Philip Pullman’s first title from


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Ranking number one and the Original Fiction pole in the same week, though The Rooster Bar has been beaten by Origin in both charts. Peter James’ Need You Dead rocketed back into the ranking, a scant six months aſter scoring a print number one in hardback. Gut-health diet book The G Plan Diet joined it in the top five, becoming only the third diet book (aſter two of Joe Wicks’ Lean in 15 trilogy) to chart. Aſter Dr Michael Mosley’s The Clever Guts Diet took the print number one slot back in the spring, it’s safe to say guts are now officially a trend.


US fantasy author Christine Feehan


made her eighth appearance in the Weekly E-Book Ranking, with the latest title in her Leopard People series, Leopard’s Blood, roaring into 11th. Its predecessor, Leopard’s Fury, charted 10th this time last year.


Jo Nesbo’s The Snowman got a film adap- tation boost to enter the ranking, hiting 17th, while Guillem Balague’s Brave New World: Inside Pochettino’s Spurs was the second highest new non-fiction entry, in, in 18th. It is also the first football-related title to feature in the weekly ranking’s (admitedly short) history. Well, they do say north Lo y


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Data is for week ending 28th October 2017 Titles with a selling price below £2 are excluded, as are titles priced £4.50 or below with any print versions priced above £17.99. Participating publishers: PRH UK, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Simon & Schuster and Bonnier. WKS the number of weeks in chart. DLP digital list price.


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