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David Walliams’ longest run at number one, in terms of weeks. It came with Te Midnight Gang


The Weekly E-Book Ranking Sweet 16 for Adam Kay’s memoir


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SOPHIE KINSELLA CLIMBED TO SECOND PLACE


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Teachers—it’s currently selling 30% faster than The World’s Worst Children 3 at the same stage. Despite posting such eye-watering sales in its launch week (86,001 copies sold in three days), the fourth title in the series barely dipped in its first full week, sliding by 10% in volume week on week compared to its predecessor’s 40% drop. With the summer holidays still three weeks off, The World’s Worst Teachers


looks likely to maintain this level of sales. Seven weeks is Walliams’ record run at number one, achieved by The Midnight Gang in 2016, but with a handful of weeks still to go before National Distract Children on Long Car Journeys Month, could The World’s Worst Teachers beat it? Sophie Kinsella’s I Owe You One also bounced upwards in its second week on sale, leapfrogging Pinch of Nom with a 42% boost week


on week. The previous week’s new releases zipped up the Mass Market Fiction chart, with David Baldacci’s Long Road to Mercy, Jane Corry’s I Looked Away and the 2010 edition of Jojo Moyes’ The Horse Dancer all rising—the later, savvily repackaged by her Continues overleaf 


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dam Kay’s 15-week Weekly E-Book Ranking number one This is Going to Hurt has returned to the top spot for a sweet


16th, seven weeks on from its last pole—and nearly a year on from its first time at the top. While in print, the former junior doctor’s memoir has sold over 900,000 copies, the e-book has notched up the most number ones for a non-fiction title in the weekly e-book chart, by some distance. Now it’s gunning for the ultimate prize—the


record for the most number ones overall is jointly held by Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train and Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, at 19 weeks apiece. This is Going to Hurt has already demonstrated remarkable longevity, so it’s perfectly likely that in a month’s time, the longest- running title in the traditionally fiction-dominated e-book chart will be a non-fiction title. Clare Mackintosh’s police procedurals have spent a total of 47 weeks in the Weekly E-Book Ranking since 2016, but her first non-crime title, After the End, has scored her joint-highest ranking of second place. Lesley Pearse’s You’ll Never See Me Again entered the chart just below, in third. Both entered the Original Fiction chart in the top five in the


same week covered by the ranking. However, it was Gill Sims’ Why Mummy Doesn’t Give a ****! that claimed the Original Fiction


Title


1 This is Going to Hurt 2 After the End


3 You’ll Never See Me Again 4 Big Sky


5 The Tattooist of Auschwitz


6 Why Mummy Doesn’t Give a ****! 7 Nine Perfect Strangers 8 Those People 9 Past Tense


10 In a House of Lies 11 Good Omens


12 The Prison Doctor 13 The Last Widow 14 Tell Me Your Secret 15 The Secret Barrister 16 City of Girls 17 Still Me


18 The Silent Patient 19 Lethal White 20 The Salt Path


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FIRST NON-CRIME TITLE HAS HIT SECOND SPOT


number one in hardback format, while its e-book entered the Weekly E-Book Ranking in sixth. Sims is especially successful in hardback, with her previ- ous two titles vastly outselling their paperback editions. Her status as a “mummy blogger” may be the reason for this imbalance—internet stars tend to sell stronger in “p” than they do in “e”, as followers want a physical way to buy into their fandom. Witness the great YouTuber wave of 2015–16: vlog- gers thundered across the print charts while barely making a dent in the e-book ones. But the biggest influencer in this e-ranking was


Kay—non-fiction titles were firmly in the “ordinary people-extraordinary jobs” memoir genre, with fellow medic Amanda Brown’s The Prison Doctor in 12th and The Secret Barrister in 15th.


Imprint


Adam Kay Picador Clare Mackintosh Little, Brown Lesley Pearse Michael Joseph Kate Atkinson Transworld Heather Morris Zaffre


Gill Sims HarperCollins Liane Moriarty Michael Joseph Louise Candlish Simon & Schuster Lee Child Transworld Ian Rankin Orion


T Pratchett & N Gaiman Transworld


ISBN (+978) 1509858644 0751564938 0718189358 1409043850 1785763663 0008340476 1405919470 1471168093 1473542303 1409176916 1448110230


Amanda Brown HQ 0008311452 Karin Slaughter HarperCollins Dorothy Koomson Headline The Secret Barrister Picador Elizabeth Gilbert Bloomsbury Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph Alex Michaelides Orion


Robert Galbraith Little, Brown Raynor Winn Michael Joseph


0008303402 1472260369 1509841158 1408867075 1405924214 1409181644 0751572841 1405937528


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Week ending 29th June 2019. Key New Up Same Down. 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, Bonnier Zaffre & Canongate.


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