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Weeks consecutively that David Walliams’ The Beast of Buckingham Palace has posted a six-figure volume; the first book to do so since Grey in 2015
The Weekly E-Book Ranking Child topples himself with The Hero Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien I
CHARLIE MACKESY HAS BEEN A WORD-OF-MOUTH HIT
of the year’s Children’s chart for its author, joining Fing and The World’s Worst Teachers as the sector’s top three sellers of 2019. The Beast... also became the first title to rack up three consecutive weekly volumes above 100,000 copies since E L James’ Grey, back in summer 2015.
Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse also show-jumped upwards, claiming the Hardback
Non-fiction number one in the week following its Waterstones Book of the Year win. At 53,925 copies sold, the illustrated title improved 44% week on week, vaulting over the 200,000-unit mark with ease.
Instagram and social media have dominated 2019’s book charts, with cleaning
influencer Mrs Hinch selling a combined 645,000 copies of her two titles, and food bloggers Kay
Featherstone and Kate Allinson’s Pinch of Nom becoming the fastest-selling non-fiction title of all time in the spring. While the Pinch of Nom blog has 1.5 million regular users, and Mrs Hinch’s Instagram following is knocking on three million, Continues overleaf
t seems that only Lee Child can defeat Lee Child—the crime author’s 24th Jack Reacher title, Blue Moon, has been knocked from the Weekly E-Book Ranking number one by his own non-fiction début, The Hero. Child’s deconstruction of the myth of the hero in modern-day fiction became his first non-Jack Reacher title to chart in the top 20, and his 11th number one in the ranking. Blue Moon slipped to third place, as Adam Kay’s Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas held firm in the runner-up spot. This year really has been the year for non-fiction
selling strongly in e-book format, with Kay’s This is Going to Hurt becoming the e-book chart’s longest- running number one of all time. Though the chart is still dominated by fiction, the likes of Elton John’s Me and Anne Glenconner’s Lady in Waiting—titles that would have been firmly in the hardback camp at this time of year in any other Christmas gift-buying period—have been flying off the virtual shelves too. New entries may have been thin on the ground in the print charts last week, as the market battens down the hatches ahead of Christmas, but the e-book chart was surprisingly flush with new blood. Nora Roberts charted in fourth place with The Rise of
Magick, and crime author J R Ward hit 16th with Where Winter Finds You. Barbara Taylor Bradford notched up her second
Title 1 The Hero
2 Twas the Nightshift Before... 3 Blue Moon
4 The Rise of Magicks 5 This is Going to Hurt 6 Starsight
7 The Holiday 8 Cilka’s Journey
9 The Tattooist of Auschwitz 10 Die Alone
11 In the Lions’ Den 12 The Sun Sister
13 The Secret Commonwealth 14 So Lucky
15 The Night Fire
16 Where Winter Finds You 17 The Butterfly Room Me
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19 Lady in Waiting 20 His Dark Materials
Author
LEE CHILD DISPLACED HIMSELF AT THE TOP OF THE RANKING
new entry to the ranking in as many weeks, with In the Lions’ Den replacing the previous week’s A Woman of Substance. Brandon Sanderson made his first appearance in the chart since 2017’s Oathbringer, with Starsight charting sixth, and Simon Kernick’s Die Alone scored a personal highest ranking for the author, hitting 10th place. Perhaps Amazon’s other-titles-by-this-author
page links were working overtime last week, as four authors doubled up in the top 20. Child and Kay swiped four of the top five spots between them, while Heather Morris’ Cilka’s Journey and The Tattooist of Auschwitz rubbed shoulders in eighth and ninth. Lucinda Riley’s The Butterfly Room and The Sun Sister also both fluttered into the chart.
Imprint
Lee Child TLS Adam Kay Picador Lee Child Transworld Nora Roberts Little, Brown Adam Kay Picador Brandon Sanderson Orion T M Logan Zaffre Heather Morris Zaffre Heather Morris Zaffre
Simon Kernick Cornerstone Barbara Taylor Bradford HarperCollins Lucinda Riley Macmillan Philip Pullman Puffin Fiction Dawn O’Porter HarperCollins Michael Connelly Orion J R Ward
Little, Brown
ISBN (+978) 0008355791 1529018592 1473542310 0349415048 1509858644 1473217928 1785767685 1785769061 1785763663 1473535220
List price £2.99 £2.99 £9.99 £9.99 £3.99 £9.99 £2.99 £8.99 £4.99 £7.99
0008242480 £10.99 1509840168 0241373361 0008126087 1409186076 0349425375
Lucinda Riley Pan 1529014976 Elton John Macmillan Anne Glenconner Hodder Philip Pullman RHCP
1509853335 1529359084 1448197705
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Week ending 30st November 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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