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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


the title to post its highest volume since Christmas 2020 (excluding lockdown weeks). Louie Stowell’s Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good leapfrogged Tahereh Mafi’s This Woven Kingdom to claim the Children’s number one berth. The current Waterstones Book of the Month sold 4,617 copies in its first full week on the shelves. David Walliams and Tony Ross’ Code Name Bananas, out in


Publisher revenues Penguin


HarperCollins Pan Macmillan S&S


Little, Brown Hodder


Bloomsbury Ebury


Scholastic Cornerstone


Children’s: Pre-school Title


3 My Bum is So Cheeky!


4 Wonky Donkey’s Big Surprise 5 Ten Minutes to Bed: Little... 6 The Tiger Who Came to Tea 7 Cat’s Cookbook


8 The Smartest Giant in Town 9 The Very Hungry Caterpillar


12 Zog


£1.92m £1.12m £935k £518k £462k £447k £382k £375k £304k £290k


paperback, zipped up into second place. Jill Tomlinson’s The Owl Who Was Afaid of the Dark was announced last week as the book the Duchess of Cambridge would read on CBeebies’ “Bedtime Stories”, and promptly jumped 604% week on week. With the segment airing on Sunday, no doubt next week’s charts will see the originally 1986-published classic boosted even further.


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Billy Connolly’s Windswept & Interesting was the bestselling book in Scotland in 2021, as the comic outsold Richard Osman


Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien Author; Illustrator Imprint


1 Hey Duggee: Animals - BBC Children’s 2 Superworm


ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 1405950688


£4.07


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170725 £4.41 Dawn McMillan; Ross Kinnaird Scholastic Craig Smith; Katz Cowley Scholastic Fielding; Chatterton Ladybird Judith Kerr HarperCollins Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan Eric Carle Puffin


10 Bluey: Grannies - Ladybird 11 Peppa Pig: Where’s George’s... - Ladybird Donaldson; Scheffler Alison Green


13 My Dolly Dressing Sticker... - Bookoli Eric Hill Warne - Studio Press Sam McBratney; Anita Jeram Walker


14 Where’s Spot? 15 Where’s Spidey?


16 Guess How Much I Love You


17 There’s a Unicorn in Your Book Tom Fletcher; Greg Abbott Puffin 18 Mythical World - Bookoli 19 Luna Loves World Book Day...


Children’s & YA Fiction Title


1 Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to... 2 Code Name Bananas 3 The Deep End


4 They Both Die at the End 5 Big Shot


6 Harry Potter and the... Stone 8 Girl in Pieces 9 One of Us is Lying


0702313783 £4.02 0702312465 0241532676 0007215997


1529034363 £4.07 1529072495 £4.10 0241003008 0241551837 0241543542 1407170763 1787725034 0723263661 1800783010


£4.14 £4.15 £4.53


£4.99 £4.35 £4.31 £4.44 £3.16 £4.31 £3.10


1406358780 £4.32 0241466605 1787724907


£4.29 £3.02


20 Princess: Colouring Book - Autumn


Joseph Coelho; Fiona Lumber Andersen Press 1839130557 £0.99 1788102216


£1.19


3,325 2,626 2,593 2,250 2,107 2,069 2,025 1,898 1,871 1,860 1,782 1,767 1,731 1,710 1,708 1,610 1,591 1,536 1,504 1,471


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illy Connolly’s Windswept & Interesting has breezed into the Scotland number


one spot for 2021. With 80,254 copies sold in Nielsen’s Scottish territories, the comedian’s memoir sold a whopping 26% of its total UK-wide volume in his homeland. Given that Scotland accounts


Author; Illustrator Imprint


Louie Stowell Walker David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins Jeff Kinney Puffin


ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 1406399752


£6.45


0008471804 £4.46 0241396957


Adam Silvera Simon & Schuster 1471166204 Jeff Kinney Puffin J K Rowling Bloomsbury


0241396650 1408855652


7 Gangsta Granny Strikes Again! David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins Kathleen Glasgow Oneworld Karen M. McManus Penguin


10 Dog Man 10: Mothering Heights Dav Pilkey 11 The Danger Gang


12 Ten Tremendous Tales


13 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 14 Six of Crows


15 You’ll Be the Death of Me 16 The Owl Who Was Afraid...


18 Bunny vs Monkey and the... 19 Crooked Kingdom 20 Gangsta Granny


46 18th February 2022 Scholastic


Tom Fletcher; Shane Devries Puffin Liz Pichon Scholastic Holly Jackson Electric Monkey Leigh Bardugo Indigo Karen M McManus Penguin Jill Tomlinson Egmont


17 Harry Potter and the Chamber... J K Rowling Bloomsbury Jamie Smart David Fickling Leigh Bardugo Indigo


David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins


£4.64 £5.05 £7.75 £4.80


0008262204 £7.89 1780749457 0141375632 0702313493


£7.18 £5.98 £5.69


0241407462 £4.58 0702302534 1405293181 1780622286 0241473665 1405271974 1408855669 1788452434 1780622316


£5.08 £6.83 £4.05 £5.39 £6.10 £4.74 £7.06 £3.67


0007371464 £4.46


4,617 4,097 3,845 3,571 3,373 3,264 2,852 2,736 2,487 2,308 2,227 2,157 2,109 2,089 1,831 1,783 1,765 1,715 1,708 1,668


for around 8% of the market’s volume, Connolly has performed stunningly among his compa- triots—though this won’t come as a surprise to anyone who has followed the Scottish market for the past few years, or indeed, the Hardback Non-fiction charts at all. Connolly has been experiencing a golden run of sales with his recent titles, with 2019’s Tall Tales and Wee Stories cresting 300,000 copies sold—and notching up second place in Scotland’s chart for the year, with only the original Pinch of Nom cookbook selling more. While 2020’s Made in Scotland fell foul of the lockdown periods, during which Nielsen BookScan was unable to report sales data, Windswept & Interesting has soared even higher in sales over autumn 2021, becom- ing Connolly’s all-time bestseller through the TCM. Scotland’s sales were up 12%


in both volume and value for the non-lockdown weeks in 2021, compared to 2019. Last year Nielsen estimated 2020’s sales to be around 6% up for the 36 avail- able weeks, so growth seems to be continuing at a consistently high rate. It also grew marginally more than the market as a whole, which reported an 11% jump in volume and a 10% increase in value for the same period. Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club repeated the trick


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