13th June 2025


Data source Date range Year to 17th May 2025


The North Top 50


1 Sunrise on the Reaping


Suzanne Collins Scholastic,9780702340574


2 Onyx Storm


Rebecca Yarros Piatkus,9780349437064


3


Bluey’s Little Book (WBD) Ladybird,9780241734407


4 43,315 58,530 60,266


Tales from Acorn Wood (WBD)37,199 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan,9781035059225


5


...Paddington: Farm Escape! 34,771 HarperCollins,9780008714574


6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20


Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349437019


Pokémon: The Epic Pocket Guide (WBD) Farshore, 9780008719814


LEGO Our Amazing Universe (WBD) DK Children, 9780241740859


Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349437057


The Housemaid Freida McFadden Little, Brown, 9781408728512


31,912 30,102 28,890 28,419 27,680


The List of Suspicious Things Jennie Godfrey Penguin (Cornerstone), 9781804942949


The Crash Freida McFadden Poisoned Pen, 9781464228636


My Favourite Mistake Marian Keyes Penguin, 9781405945424


In Too Deep Lee & Andrew Child Penguin (Transworld), 9781804993675


26,169 25,866 25,591 25,124


The Fart That Broke... (WBD) S & A Mangan Scholastic, 9780702340635


A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J Maas Bloomsbury, 9781526605399


The Women Kristin Hannah Pan Books, 9781035005697


Easy Air Fryer Jamie Oliver Michael Joseph, 9780241733431


24,933 24,917 23,216 22,026


Geomancer (WBD) Kiran Millwood Hargrave Orion, 9781510113428


21,205


Barbara’s... Guide to Moods (WBD) N Shireen Puffin, 9780241753798


21,132 62 B


ook sales in the north of England have outperformed the rest of the UK so far this year in data from


NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM). While volume is down 0.5% in bookshops in the north, it is a shallower drop than that experienced in the rest of Britain, where sales have fallen nearly three times faster in the same period. In keeping with the rest of the


UK, while volume sales are down, value sales are up, and more so in the regions in this analysis. Up to 17th May, value sales across the whole TCM were up 0.4%, the equivalent of £2.6m, with much of


this number – nearly £1.7m of it – thanks to readers in the north. What is “the north”? I have one


friend from Brighton who consid- ers anything above the M4 to be the north, while conversely, inhabitants of Yorkshire might consider residents of Birmingham southern softies. So, to avoid controversy, Nielsen IQ’s North East, North West and Yorkshire regions are based upon the old ITV regions, meaning that bookshops as far south as Long Sutton in Lincolnshire and as far north as Berwick-upon-Tweed appear in these figures. An impressive £1.3m of the


1


north’s growth comes from the Top 50 (up 25% on the same period in


Charts


Northern Lights: Sales in the north of England outpace the rest of UK


Charts Market Spotlight


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