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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


Mackesy’s account has a relatively modest 200,000 followers. But that hasn’t stopped The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse from becoming a runaway success.


Lee Child’s Blue


Moon took the Original Fiction number one for a sixth straight week, selling 23,638 copies.


The 24th Jack Reacher title is now level with last year’s Past Tense for Child’s longest run in the category chart top spot, and Blue Moon is outselling its predecessor by 0.6% (and, with its shorter launch week, on three days’ fewer sales). The chart’s top five remained the same as the week before, though John le Carré’s Agent Running in the Field, Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other


and Robert Harris’ The Second Sleep could be poised to disrupt next week. Lucy Foley’s The Hunting Part claimed the Mass-Market Fiction


TCM actual selling price 52-week history


£10


Original Fiction Title


1 Blue Moon


2 The Testaments 3 Cilka’s Journey 4 No Mercy


5 Christmas Shopaholic 6 Agent Running in the Field 7 The Guardians 8 The Giver of Stars 9 Girl, Woman, Other 10 The Second Sleep 11 Westwind


12 Sword of Kings 13 The Institute 14 Criss Cross


15 The Night Fire 16 The Starless Sea 17 Olive, Again 18 Postscript


19 A Minute to Midnight 20 So Lucky


Author


Imprint Lee Child Bantam


ISBN (+978) 1787632196


Margaret Atwood Chatto & Windus 1784742324 Heather Morris Zaffre Martina Cole Headline Sophie Kinsella Bantam John le Carré Viking John Grisham Hodder


Jojo Moyes Michael Joseph


Bernardine Evaristo Hamish Hamilton 0241364901 Robert Harris Hutchinson Ian Rankin Orion


Bernard Cornwell HarperCollins Stephen King Hodder James Patterson Century Michael Connelly Orion


Erin Morgenstern Harvill Secker Elizabeth Strout Viking


Cecelia Ahern HarperCollins David Baldacci Macmillan Dawn O’Porter HarperCollins


Mass-Market Fiction Title


1 The Hunting Party 2 The First Lady


3 The Tattooist of Auschwitz 4 A Midwinter Promise 5 Dead at First Sight 6 Redemption


7 The Librarian of Auschwitz 8 A Wedding In December 9 My Lovely Wife Magpie


10  £5 £0 £8.94  YEAR ON YEAR 1.1%


11 The Butterfly Room 12 The Christmas Party 13 The Christmas Wedding 14 My Sister, the Serial Killer 15 Once Upon a River 16 An Island Christmas 17 Normal People


18 Come a Little Closer 19 One Snowy Night 20 The Familiars


1785769047 1472249401 1787631960 0241401231 1473684430 0718183202


1786331373 1409196044 0008183899 1529355390 1780899442 1409186045 1910701454 0241374597 0008194871 1509874453 0008126070


ASP


£10.54 £11.61 £7.77


£10.91 £10.86 £14.49 £11.02 £11.05 £13.10 £13.13 £13.54 £11.87 £11.26 £11.63 £11.06 £14.09 £12.85 £10.21 £10.68 £8.72


Volume 23,638 14,060 11,296 7,602 7,233 6,796 6,785 6,249 5,235 4,921 4,790 4,381 4,352 3,563 3,555 3,387 3,240 2,703 2,646 2,619


Author


Imprint


Lucy Foley HarperCollins James Patterson Arrow Heather Morris Zaffre Lulu Taylor Pan


ISBN (+978) 0008297152 1787462236 1785763670 1529029659


Peter James Pan 1509816415 David Baldacci Pan 1509874415 Antonio Iturbe Ebury


1529104776


Sarah Morgan HQ 1848457935 Samantha Downing Penguin Sophie Draper Avon


1405939300 0008311315


Lucinda Riley Pan 1529014969 Karen Swan Pan 1529006063 Dilly Court HarperCollins Oyinkan Braithwaite Atlantic Diane Setterfield Black Swan Jenny Colgan Sphere Sally Rooney Faber Karen Perry Penguin Rita Bradshaw Pan Stacey Halls Zaffre


0008287757 1786495983 1784163631 0751572070 0571334650 1405936675 1509898084 1785766145


ASP


£5.46 £4.13 £5.31 £4.21 £5.02 £4.91 £4.12 £4.33 £6.28 £3.57 £5.86 £4.93 £4.62 £6.80 £6.55 £4.77 £7.18 £3.86 £4.36 £6.38


Volume 12,583 10,984 10,046 8,130 7,522 7,291 7,143 6,456 5,156 5,072 4,940 4,655 4,601 4,393 4,220 4,051 4,046 3,944 3,939 3,698


Heatseekers Fiction


The Heatseekers charts are compiled using titles by authors who have not appeared in The Official UK Top 50 since Nielsen BookScan records began. As such, they reveal books that are selling well, but not well enough to make the


overall list in a seven-day period. For more Heatseekers charts, visit thebookseller.com.


36 13th December 2019


Title 1  Magpie


3 Before the Coffee Gets Cold 4 The Stalker


6 A Gentleman in Moscow 7 The Overstory 8 Found


Author


Imprint Sophie Draper Avon


2 Murder at Christmas - Profile Toshikazu Kawaguchi Picador Alex Gray Sphere


5 The Stationery Shop of Tehran Marjan Kamali S&S Amor Towles Windmill Richard Powers Vintage Erin Kinsley Headline George Orwell Penguin Pamela Bell Trapeze


9 Nineteen Eighty-Four 10 Christmas at Emmerdale


ISBN (+978) 0008311315 1788163392 1529029581 0751572285 1471185014 0099558781 1784708245 1472260772 0141187761 1409185000


ASP


£3.57 £6.86 £7.58 £4.54 £5.94 £7.66 £7.38 £6.56 £5.87 £4.69


Volume 5,072 3,598 2,808 2,490 2,224 2,125 1,963 1,922 1,762 1,623


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