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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


Pinch of Nom Airfyer by Kay and Kate Allinson and Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart remained unmoved by new titles entering the Hardback and Paperback Non-Fiction charts. Both held onto their pole positions for the third and fiſth weeks in a row, respectively. Paul Ainsworth, Miriam Margolyes and Mary Beard certainly did their best, however, and the paperback edition of Margolyes’


Publisher revenues Penguin


HarperCollins Pan Macmillan Little, Brown


Simon & Schuster Bloomsbury Cornerstone Transworld Bonnier UK Hodder


Children’s: Pre-school Title


1 Frog’s Day Out


2 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 3 The Baddies   


  


4 Bluey: Sleepytime 5 Bluey: Trains 6 Dear Zoo 


£1.94m £1.87m £1.15m £771k £758k £745k £697k £473k £464k £450k


autobiography, Oh Miriam!, was a relatively close second to Stewart.


The paperback edition of


Beard’s Emperor of Rome is no doubt enjoying a boost as a Waterstones’ Book of the Month, the same as Murder on Lake Garda by Tom Hindle, Kala by Colin Walsh and Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs, the later two making their top 50 début last week.


Christianity might be on the decline in the UK, but the word of God is selling better than ever


Zoe Knowles  C Author; Illustrator Imprint


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan Eric Carle


Puffin Rod Campbell


7 Sticker Dolly Dressing Magical... Fiona Watt; Antonia Miller   


11Bumper Animal Colouring Book 12Guess How Much I Love You 13The Tiger Who Came to Tea 14Peekaboo Dog 15Little Wolf 


16Where’s Spot? 


  


17The Tooth Fairy and the... 18Sticker Dolly Dressing Pets 19Peppa’s Adventure Holiday 20Find Spot at the Beach


Ladybird Ladybird Macmillan Usborne


ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 1035006885 £4.78 0241003008 £4.48


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 0702325069 £4.93 - -


8 The Gruffalo and Friends... Find Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan 9 Bluey: What Games Should We... - 10Bluey: Bad Mood     


Ladybird Ladybird Igloo


Sam McBratney; Anita Jeram Walker Judith Kerr


Warne


0241663653 £4.38 0241605240 £4.85 1529074932 £4.63 1805072454 £4.86 1035033270 £4.38 0241669754 £4.41 0241604885 £5.03 1786701435 £2.00 1406358780 £4.73


HarperCollins 0007215997 £5.16


Camilla Reid; Ingela P Arrhenius Nosy Crow 1788006613 £4.65 Rhiannon Fielding; C Chatterton Ladybird Eric Hill


Julia Donaldson; Lydia Monks Macmillan Fiona Watt; N Taylor & A Miller Usborne -


Eric Hill


Children’s & YA Fiction Title


1 Reckless 2 Powerful 3 Powerless


4 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 5 Astrochimp   


    


6 The Impossible Pig 7 The Scarlet Shedder 8 Diper Överlöde  


9 Good Girl, Bad Blood 10I Am Rebel 


Ladybird Puffin


0241620496 £5.55 0723263661 £4.56 1447284437 £7.96 1805316909 £4.84 0241659656 £5.41 0241648797 £4.41


2,522 2,448 1,929 1,887 1,880 1,855 1,853 1,728 1,706 1,644 1,576 1,566 1,555 1,537 1,512 1,507 1,442 1,405 1,390 1,348


ommonly considered to be the book most often stolen around the world,


sales of the Christian Bible by value through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market struck an all-time high in 2023, peaking at £7.6m. BookScan’s Christianity: Bibles & Liturgy subcategory, which is one of nine that make up the category of Religion is currently sitting at £3.5m, halfway through 2024, putting it on track for another strong result this year. On its own, biblical matter accounts for nearly a third of the category’s value. This growth


comes despite an increasing


Author; Illustrator Lauren Roberts Lauren Roberts Lauren Roberts Holly Jackson


Imprint ISBN (+978) ASP Volume


Simon & Schuster 1398530126 £6.86 38,028 Simon & Schuster 1398535732 £5.49 Simon & Schuster 1398529489 £5.86 Electric Monkey 1405293181 £6.13


David Walliams; Adam Stower HarperCollins 0008587574 £7.89 Jamie Smart Dav Pilkey Jeff Kinney


Holly Jackson


11The Chalice of the Gods  


Ross Montgomery Rick Riordan


12Twenty Thousand Fleas Under... Dav Pilkey 13As Good As Dead 


14Race to Imagination Island      


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16Harry Potter and the... Stone 17A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 18If He Had Been With Me 19If Only I Had Told Her 20Big Shot


Holly Jackson


15Bunny vs Monkey and the... Doom Jamie Smart J K Rowling


Holly Jackson Laura Nowlin Laura Nowlin Jeff Kinney


David Fickling 1788453127 £6.09 Scholastic Puffin


1338896435 £9.03 0241583104 £5.41


Electric Monkey 1405297752 £6.06 Walker Puffin


Scholastic Mel Taylor-Bessent; A D’Urso Farshore


1529502909 £6.47 0241647523 £7.44 0702330025 £6.24


Electric Monkey 1405298605 £6.11 0008642471 £7.76


David Fickling 1788451772 £6.87 Bloomsbury


1408855652 £5.99


Electric Monkey 0008687069 £6.42 Sourcebooks Fire 1728205489 £7.95 Sourcebooks Fire 1728276229 £6.55 Puffin


0241396988 £5.08


4,905 4,649 4,166 4,024 3,514 3,257 2,507 2,348 2,321 2,009 1,965 1,952 1,860 1,736 1,691 1,655 1,649 1,604 1,406


number of people across England and Wales claiming to have “no religion” in the 2021 Census. The census results for that year found that less than half of the population identified as Christian for the first time in the survey’s history. Perhaps then, TCM value


is acting as a false prophet in this instance. Though the subcategory’s value might be consistently trending upwards, its annual volume actually fluctuates. Unit sales peaked in 2015


with more than 530,000 copies sold—9% above last year’s total sales. Therefore, last year’s record-breaking result is more likely due to an ever-increasing average selling price, rather than a growing fellowship. Between 2015 and 2023, the a.s.p. has jumped by more than £4. King James is currently the


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