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MARKET ANALYSIS BESTSELLERS


13.05.16 www.thebookseller.com


Hawkins’ train paperback is on track


The relentless bestseller of 2015, The Girl on the Train’s first-week paperback sales suggest its success to date may well just be the start. Kiera O’Brien reports


Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train (Black Swan) has thundered into the Official UK Top 50 number one spot, shifting 59,093 copies for £227,947 in its first three days on sale in paperback. After the runaway success of


the hardback, digital and audio download versions of the title in 2015, the paperback’s storming sales right out of the gate are hardly a surprise: its first-week volume is the largest for any Adult Fiction title since Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann) was released last July. The Girl on the Train now


becomes one of only four titles since records began to hit the top spot with two different editions, joining Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’ Diary (Pan Macmillan), Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol (Bantam) and J K Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy (Little, Brown). Bridget Jones’ Diary was boosted by the release of the Renée Zellweger film adaptation in 2001; The Lost Symbol was Brown’s follow-up to 4.5 million- copy bestseller The Da Vinci Code (Corgi); and The Casual Vacancy was already-a-billionaire Rowling’s first adult title; but Hawkins’ psychological thriller has


REVENUE LEADERS: W/E 07.05.16 BASED ON TOP 5,000 TITLES


Pan Macmillan HarperCollins Penguin 1.3m


Cornerstone Transworld


Ebury


Little, Brown Hodder


Orion Vintage


370k 365k


Simon & Schuster Bloomsbury


258k 245k


built up a momentum all of its own. The hardback only hit the overall


top spot once, but its consistently high sales over 2015 saw it spend 29 weeks as the Original Fiction number one, breaking The Lost Symbol’s record. Its weekly volume was so dependable that it only dropped below 4,000 units sold per week in February 2016, more than a year after its release. Last week marked the first time the hardback had not charted in the Original Fiction top 20—yet it still only missed out by just two copies. Similarly, the digital


version, which has racked up a total of six number ones in


The Bookseller’s monthly E-Book Ranking, has only just begun to


POS LAST TITLE FICTIONHEATSEEKERS


10 TOP


1 8 Bicycles and Blackberries 2 New I Saw a Man 3 New The Cartel 4 New The Madam


5 New A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding 6 7 8 9


1 My Map of You


3 Early One Morning 4 Pretty is 10 Civil War


10 New Star Wars: Bloodline: 51 *Week ending 7th May 2016


353k 353k


287k Hawkins


drop down the chart (to a “low” of seventh). It will be interesting to see how the release of the paperback affects digital sales, as presumably some book-buyers will have been put off by the hardback’s £12.99 r.r.p. Then again, physical book success generally translates into digital sales and The Girl on the Train has proved unstoppable so far. If the paperback’s sales are anywhere near as consistent as all of the title’s other editions, then based on its first week—which saw it become the 51st- bestselling book of the year to date—Joe Wicks should be shaking in his trainers. But Wicks is no stranger to


consistency himself. Lean in 15 (Bluebird), in its 18th week on sale,


AUTHOR


Newberry, Sheila Sheers, Owen Winslow, Don Raven, Jaime


Copleton, Jackie Broom, Isabelle Baily, Virginia


Mitchell, Maggie Millar, Mark Gray, Claudia


PUBLISHER Zaffre


Faber Arrow Avon


Windmill Penguin Fleet Orion Panini


Century ISBN


9781785761614 9780571317745 9781784750640 9780008171469 9780099592471 9781405925273 9780349006512 9781409152682 9781905239603 9781780892627


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is yet to sell fewer than 16,000 copies a week: it once again took second place overall, and claimed the Paperback Non-Fiction number one for a 17th (non-consecutive) week. Now the 11th bestselling Food & Drink title of all time, the clean-eating cookbook is also in the top 35 Non-Fiction books since records began. Elsewhere, a plethora of new


releases charted strongly. Richard & Judy’s Book Club picks for summer were out in force, with The Girl on the Train, John Grisham’s Rogue Lawyer (Hodder), Dawn French’s According to Yes (Penguin) and The Bookseller’s own Cathy Rentzenbrink’s The Last Act of Love (Picador) hitting the top 20. Sabrina Ghayour’s Sirocco


(Mitchell Beazley) secured the Hardback Non-Fiction number one in the author’s first week in the Top 50, and Liz Pichon’s latest Tom Gates novel, Super Good Skills (Almost . . .) (Scholastic), took the Children’s number one. The Children’s top five was made up entirely of new releases, with débutant Kiran


Millwood-Hargrave’s The Girl of Ink & Stars (Chicken House) charting in 33rd place overall in its first week on sale.


PUB DATE RRP ASP UNITS Apr 16 £6.99 £3.13 2,912


May 16 £7.99 £5.65 2,753 May 16 £8.99 £7.19 2,569 May 16 7.99 £3.68 2,496 May 16 £7.99 £6.36 2,423 Apr 16 £7.99 £4.07 1,949 Apr 16 £7.99 £5.66 1,904 Apr 16 £7.99 £3.81 1,325 Apr 07 £10.99 £9.76 1,322 May 16 £19.99 £15.03 1,298


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