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Val McDermid has provided the first fiction number one of the year to date, with her novel 1979
Digital Bestseller Lists Harlan seals victory with Win Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien H
VAL MCDERMID OUSTED PINCH OF NOM AT THE SUMMIT
Comfort Food shiſting 14,432 a week ago. While no number-one bestseller has sold more than 25,000 copies since the second week of 2022, the print market has remained resilient despite the sluggishness at the very top. The market has only once dropped below 3.5 million books sold in the first six weeks of the year, and its lowest value has been £29.9m. In volume terms, no year since 2011 has notched up sales
so high so early. It’s been 13 years since any week in the first six weeks of the year has hit a value above £30m—it last happened in 2009. Adult Fiction and Children’s in particular have been driving the boom, up 34% and 23% in volume respectively over the past six weeks compared to two years ago.
Of course, due to Lockdown 3.0 in 2021 preventing Nielsen BookScan reporting weekly sales figures,
we can only compare last week to early 2020. Against one of the last few pre-pandemic weeks in February two years ago, last week was 11.8% up in volume and 9.8% in value. Rebecca Ross’ fantasy title A River Enchanted swam into the Continues overleaf
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arlan Coben’s Win crossed the finish line to claim the Bookstat e-book number one for the week ending 12th February. Sarah
Pearse’s The Sanatorium made a similar leap, climb- ing five places to claim the runner-up spot. Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet has been a stellar
seller in print since its publication in paperback, becoming the first post-Lockdown 3.0 number one through Nielsen BookScan in March 2021. After a brief sojourn at 99p, its e-book edition bounced into the Bookstat top 10 last week, joined by the equally briefly discounted Billy Connolly’s Windswept & Interesting, fresh from hitting the 2021 Biography and Autobiography category’s top two—and claim- ing the Scotland number one (see pp46–47). Elly Griffiths’ The Locked Room battered down
the door to the Publisher E-Book Ranking number one for the week ending 5th February, ending Richard Osman’s long reign with The Thursday Murder Club. Victoria Henry’s TheImpulsePurchase and Ant Middleton’s MentalFitness débuted in
Bookstat E-Book Top 10 1
Title Win
2 The Sanatorium 4
5 Windswept & Interesting 6 Walking on Sunshine 7 The Perfect Couple 8 The Ship of Brides 9 Abandoned in Death 10 Magpie Murders
Author
Harlan Coben Sarah Pearse
3 The Ladies’ Midnight Swimming... Faith Hogan Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell Billy Connolly
HARLAN COBEN LED THE WAY IN THE BOOKSTAT CHART
the top 10, with current Original Fiction-charting hardbacks Jessie Keane’s Diamond and Linwood Barclay’s TakeYourBreathAway also débuting.
Clarification Hachette has stated that Hamnet sold 9,285 copies; Windswept & Interesting 9,682; The Ship of Brides 4,912; Abandoned in Death 4,591; and Magpie Murders 4,681.
Imprint
ISBN (+978) Volume
Random House 1787462991 14,644 Transworld Aria
Headline Two Roads
1473577275 11,012 1800241336 1472223814 1529318265
Giovanna Fletcher Michael Joseph 1405935609 Jackie Kabler Jojo Moyes J D Robb
One More Chapter 0008328429 Hodder
Little, Brown Anthony Horowitz Orion
0340960387 0349430263 1409158387
7,761 6,724 6,709 6,184 6,005 5,477 5,379 5,373
Data source Bookstat. Week ending 12th February 2022. Bookstat generates its charts by tracking the movement of e-books, print books and audio titles on online retailers’ websites and calibrating against publisher-supplied data; the volume and value figures are estimates. For more information, contact
info@bookstat.com.
The Publisher E-Book Ranking 1
Title The Locked Room
2 The Thursday Murder Club 3 The Impulse Purchase 4 The Man Who Died Twice 5 Mental Fitness Diamond
6 7 The Maid
8 Take Your Breath Away 9 The Night She Disappeared 10 Until I Find You
Author Elly Griffiths
Richard Osman Veronica Henry Richard Osman Ant Middleton Jessie Keane Nita Prose
Linwood Barclay Lisa Jewell Anna Smith
Imprint Quercus Penguin Orion
Penguin HarperCollins
ISBN (+978) List price 1529409680 £11.99 0241988275 1409183594 0241988251 0008472306
Hodder & Stoughton 1529363067 HarperCollins HQ
Cornerstone Quercus
0008435745 0008332112 1473583634 1529415810
£5.99 £6.99 £9.99 £4.99 £8.49 £7.99 £9.99 £4.99 £3.99
Week ending 5th February 2022. 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 & Joffe Books.
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