The Children’s Festive Top 50 (p52/53) is this week’s Market Spotlight
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Jenny Colgan hunts her way into pole position with festive title
REPORTING Alex Call
t is a turbulent week for the e-book charts from Bookstat, with not just an almost entirely new top 10, but a shake-up in the wider
top 20, too. It is a change that has been led bytwo e-book shorts exclusive to Amazon – the top spot being taken by Jenny Colgan’s ( 1) The Christmas Book Hunt. Second place in the charts this week goes
BookStat E-Book Top 10 Data source Bookstat. Week ending 7th December 2024.
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The Christmas Book Hunt Jenny Colgan
Amazon, 9780000000000 The Christmas Cottage
Sarah Morgan HQ Digital, 9781848459229
The Survivors
Caroline Mitchell Thomas & Mercer, 9781662524592
The Answer Is No
Fredrik Backman Amazon, 9780000000000
Wind and Truth
Brandon Sanderson Gollancz, 9781399601313
6 The Truth About Melody Browne Lisa Jewell Random House, 9780099533672 7 A Christmas Murder Mary Grand Boldwood, 9781804269190 8 When You Disappeared John Marrs Thomas & Mercer, 9781611097511 Embla Books, 9781471416316 40,527 45,540 42,929 9 The Lost Past of Billy McQueen Neil Alexander 10 The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth Cornerstone, 9780111111116 45,559 40,278 45,632 45,627 45,627 45,589 45,627
to Sarah Morgan’s The Christmas Cottage, which makes it into the ranking for the first time since it was first published at the end of October. Last week’s festive number one
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– A Christmas Murder by Mary Grand – is the only title continuing to appear in the top 10, but it drops to seventh place with nearly a 50% decline in volume. Fredrik Backman’s short story The Answer Is No is the second Amazon
Publisher E-Book Ranking Data source Publisher-supplied. Week ending 30th November 2024. 1
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Orbital Samantha Harvey Vintage E-Books, 9781529901795
In Too Deep
Lee & Andrew Child Transworld Digital, 9781529922776
Wicked
Gregory Maguire Review, 9780755391127
Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349437040
We Solve Murders Richard Osman Viking Adult, 9780241608388
6 The Wrong Sister Claire Douglas 7 Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349436982 8 Conclave Robert Harris 9 Firefight Tom Wood Sphere, 9780751584929 10 The Hike Lucy Clarke HarperCollins, 9780008462444 Cornerstone Digital, 9781473519688 Penguin (Michael Joseph), 9781405957625 Audible Audio Top 10 Data source Audible. Week ending 7th December 2024. 1
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Wind and Truth Brandon Sanderson Gollancz, 9781399601313
We Solve Murders Richard Osman Viking, 9780241608364
I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You Miranda Hart
Michael Joseph, 9781405958332
The Hotel Avocado Bob Mortimer Simon & Schuster, 9781398529625
Odyssey Stephen Fry
Michael Joseph, 9780241486351 6 Atomic Habits James Clear Penguin, 9781847941831 7 Lights Out Navessa Allen Quercus, 9781529442397 8 The Spellshop Sarah Beth Durst Tor, 9781035042326 9 An Ideal Husband Erica James HQ, 9780008413835 10 The Thursday Murder Club Richard Osman Penguin, 9781398521230 51
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Bookstat Top 10 Bookstat tracks e-books, print books and audio titles through online retailers’ and calibrates against publisher-supplied data; volume figures are
estimates.Publisher E-Book Ranking Titles with a selling price below £2 are excluded, as are those priced £4.50 or below with any print versions priced above £17.99. Participating publishers: Bonnier Books UK, Bloomsbury, Hachette, HarperCollins, Joffe Books, Pan Macmillan and Penguin Random House.
exclusive in the top 10 this week, debuting in fourth place, while Amazon imprint Thomas & Mercer sees Caroline Mitchell’s The Survivors taking third spot. The hotly anticipated fifth
instalment in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive, Wind and Truth, takes the fifth spot in the ranking – it is the first book in this series since 2020’s Rhythm of War and has delighted 6,403 digital fans, helping the entire top 10 to total sales of 66,783, a 6.8% increase week-on-week. The Publisher Ranking, mean-
while, has a more familiar look, led by Samantha Harvey’s Booker winner Orbital.
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