13th June 2025
Charts
Richard Osman makes a killing while Jenkins Reid blasts off
A resurgent We Solve Murders claims a fourth week at the top of the TCM
A Week ending 7th June 2025
fter a brief one-week visit to second place, Richard Osman’s We Solve Murde rs has
returned to the top of the Official UK Top 50, according to the latest data from NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM). After a slow start from Osman
– week-one sales were down 39% compared with the first week of The Last Devil to Die in 2024 – things are starting to speed up, with volume sales of 18,478 copies for the past seven days down just 5.9% compared with the fifth week of his previous paperback. It gives
the paperback edition of We Solve Murders lifetime sales of 140,520 units – 20.2% lower than the 176,155 copies The Last Devil to Die chalked up in its first five weeks. Chloe Walsh’s Releasing 10 –
which topped the chart last week – has fallen 25 places following a 79.9% drop in sales to 5,006 copies. With Walsh, Stephen King’s Never Flinch and David Walliams and Adam Stower’s The World’s Worst Superheroes all dropping out of the Top 10, there is room for some of the latest paperbacks to move up. Bob Mortimer’s The Hotel
Avocado jumps from fourth to second place in the Top 10 with
sales of 15,161 copies, though that represents a drop of 17.9% compared with the second week on sale. Similarly, Intermezzo by Sally Rooney and Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin both climb a spot in the Top 10 despite seeing double-digit percentage contractions in sales. The biggest new paperback is Lucy
Foley’s The Midnight Feast, which takes sixth position in the TCM, the first new paperback in three years, but that wait has not diminished Foley’s appeal with first-week sales up 4.8%, compared with September 2022’s The Paris Apartment. It appears just ahead of Colm Toíbín’s Long Island, which with sales of 8,530 copies has delivered the Irishman his fifth-biggest single-week sales performance to date, beaten only by the hardback edition’s first week in 2024 and Brooklyn’s first full three weeks on sale in March 2010. The highest-ranked new entry in
the charts is Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere, debuting in third place with 11,609 copies. First-week sales
Richard Osman has picked up speed with sales of We Solve Murders after a slow start
The Official 1 We Solve Murders Richard Osman Penguin, 9780241997482 3 Data
Unless otherwise stated, information supplied by and copyright of NielsenIQ BookData (
niq.com/bookdata). Information is provided “as is”. Neither Nielsen nor The Bookseller accept liability for any loss, damage or expense arising from reliance on this data. Any title discounted by more than 74.5% is ineligible for inclusion.
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Key No move New entry Climbing Re-entry Falling
2 The Hotel Avocado Bob Mortimer Gallery, 9781398529656 3 Atmosphere Taylor Jenkins Reid 4 Intermezzo Sally Rooney Faber, 9780571365487 5 Midnight and Blue Ian Rankin Orion, 9781398709454 6 The Midnight Feast Lucy Foley HarperCollins, 9780008385088 7 Long Island Colm Tóibín Picador, 9781035029464 8 Here One Moment Liane Moriarty Penguin, 9781405942287 9 The Tenant Freida McFadden 10 The Salt Path Raynor Winn Penguin, 9781405937184 Poisoned Pen Press, 9781464228629 Hutchinson Heinemann, 9781529152975
UNI TS 18,478
15,161 11,609 10,554 10,249 9,891 8,530 8,158 8,068 7,740 11 Guilty Martina Cole Headline, 9781472249548 12 Raising Hare Chloe Dalton Canongate, 9781837260867 13 The Housemaid Freida McFadden Little, Brown, 9781408728512 Fourth Estate, 9780008511715 Hodder, 9781399744331
UNI TS 7,691
7,334 7,308 14 Butter Asako Yuzuki, Polly Barton (trans) 15 Never Flinch Stephen King 16 Cozy Corner Coco Wyo Penguin, 9780241764220 17 The Salt Path Raynor Winn Penguin, 9781405972147 18 Precipice Robert Harris Penguin (Cornerstone), 9781804941294 19 In Too Deep Lee & Andrew Child Penguin (Transworld), 9781804993675 20 There Are Rivers in the Sky Elif Shafak Penguin, 9780241988749 6,884 6,510 6,482 6,403 6,118 6,072 5,974
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