18th February 2022

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The Bestseller Charts Analysis

The Official UK Top 50 McDermid’s 1979 topples Pinch from pole

1  £30.1m  TCM value

WEEK ON WEEK -1.9%

Scottish crime writer Val McDermid’s 1979 pipped Rebecca Ross to the top of the charts, as fiction started to make its mark on the chart

Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien

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al McDermid’s 1979 leap- frogged Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson’s Pinch

of Nom Comfort Food to claim the Official UK Top 50 number one through Nielsen BookScan’s TCM. This was McDermid’s fourth week at the top, five years aſter Out of Bounds notched up her first overall top spot. The new paperback title, which kicks off the Allie Burns series, becomes the first fiction number one of the year, and is in fact the first female-authored novel to top the charts since Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You in September 2021. At 14,904 copies sold, 1979 becomes the second number one title in a row to sell fewer than 15,000 copies, with Pinch of Nom

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Title 1979

2 A River Enchanted 3 21st Birthday 4 It Ends With Us

5 Pinch of Nom Comfort Food

7 The Thursday Murder Club 8 Ugly Love

9 Fast 800 Keto 10 All Her Fault 11 Rabbit Hole

12 Block, Delete, Move On

14 The Midnight Library 15 The Love Hypothesis

Author; Illustrator Val McDermid Rebecca Ross

James Patterson Colleen Hoover

6 Why Has Nobody Told Me This... Dr Julie Smith Richard Osman Colleen Hoover

Dr Michael Mosley Andrea Mara

Mark Billingham

Imprint Sphere

ISBN TCM total Volume 0751583076 25,916 14,904

HarperVoyager 0008514631 13,608 13,478 Penguin S&S

Featherstone & Allinson Bluebird

Michael Joseph 0241529713 51,061 10,299 Penguin S&S

Short

Penguin Sphere

LalalaLetMeExplain Penguin

13 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn... Taylor Jenkins Reid S&S Matt Haig

16 The Night She Disappeared 17 The City of Tears 18 Rachel’s Holiday 19 Other Women 20 The Sanatorium 21 Verity

22 Open Water

23 The Spanish Love Deception 24 A Wedding in the Country 25 Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to... 26 Slimming Eats

27 The Boy, The Mole, The Fox... 28 Sixteen Horses

29 Where the Crawdads Sing 30 This is Going to Hurt

31 The Man Who Died Twice 32 Manifest

33 Code Name Bananas 34 Grown Ups 35 Mrs England 36 Both of You 37 Girl A

38 The Deep End

39 The Locked Room 40 Sooley

41 They Both Die at the End 42 Atomic Habits

43 Good Vibes, Good Life 44 Big Shot

45 Madhouse at the End... 46 Hey Duggee: Animals

47 Harry Potter and the... Stone 48 SAS Great Escapes Ariadne

49  50 This is Going to Hurt

Ali Hazelwood Lisa Jewell Kate Mosse Marian Keyes Cathy Kelly

Sarah Pearse Colleen Hoover

Canongate Sphere Penguin Pan

Penguin Orion Corgi

Sphere

Caleb Azumah Nelson Viking Elena Armas Katie Fforde Louie Stowell

S&S

Penguin Walker

Siobhan Wightman Yellow Kite Charlie Mackesy Greg Buchanan Delia Owens Adam Kay

Ebury Pan

Richard Osman Roxie Nafousi Walliams; Ross Marian Keyes Stacey Halls Adele Parks Abigail Dean Jeff Kinney Elly Griffiths John Grisham Adam Silvera James Clear Vex King

Jeff Kinney J K Rowling

Damien Lewis Jennifer Saint Adam Kay

Corsair Picador Viking

0241988268 858,389 1471136726 79,006 1780725024 82,684 0552177986 11,982 0751577280 37,032 1787635234

1529157277 20,826 12,680 1471156267 263,486 11,128 1529035018 410,958 11,056

6,354

1398515697 76,002 1786892737 520,497 1408725764 63,514 1529156270 30,988 1509806898 118,462 0241958438 74,134 1409179283

8,949

0552177313 65,982 1408726600 25,066 0241448786 10,544 1398515628 31,456 1529156317 26,979 1406399752

8,623

1529377415 76,080 1529105100 1,401,133 1529027181

7,647

1472154668 547,793 1529062335

5,296 0241425428 617,453

Michael Joseph 0241539590 26,684 HarperCollins 0008471804 Penguin Manilla HQ

Quercus Hodder S&S

6,195

1405918787 198,748 1838772888 30,849 0008440152 44,897

HarperCollins 0008389093 160,371 Puffin

0241396957 13,903 1529409659 10,092 1529368048 32,590 1471166204 252,823

Random House 1847941831 163,873 Hay House Puffin

Julian Sancton W H Allen -

1788171823 304,882 0241396650 222,374 0753553466

6,894

BBC Children’s 1405950688 16,557 Bloomsbury Quercus Wildfire Picador

1472273901 37,402 1509858637 1,173,004

Week ending 12th February 2022. Key New Up Same Down Unless otherwise stated, charts use data from Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market, representing print book sales through around 6,500 retailers. Any title discounted by more than 74.5% is ineligible for inclusion.

1408855652 1,126,624 1787475304

4,744

9,227 7,804 7,478 7,444 6,977 6,354 6,341 6,141 6,033 5,877 5,877 5,843 5,804 5,475 5,418 5,305 5,077 5,009 4,617 4,583 4,545 4,386 4,362 4,331 4,224 4,219 4,097 4,082 4,079 4,034 3,901 3,845 3,835 3,751 3,635 3,426 3,400 3,373 3,341 3,325 3,264 3,259 3,145 3,040

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