Fiction (p46) and Non-Fiction (p47) charts in full


This week’s biggest new release


is Brigitte Knightley’s The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy. The debut romantasy title from Knightley – which has an exclusive edition with Waterstones, as well as being due to appear in Illumicrate’s July subscription box – manages to rack up 4,294 units in its first week, but that is only enough to put it in second place in the Original Fiction (OF) Top 20. Instead, Lisa Jewell’s Don’t Let Him in climbs one place to take the crown, despite a 39.7% fall in sales to 7,262 copies in its second week. Last week’s OF number one, Rose in Chains by Julie Soto, sees sales wilt 90.5% to 1,526 copies, dropping it 12 places down the chart. The second-biggest new release


also finds a home on the OF chart – Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s The Art of a Lie has sold 1,885 copies in its first few days on sale, putting it in ninth place, but only making it to 135th place in the TCM. That number is 46% down compared with the first week of Shepherd-Robinson’s previous hardback, The Square of Sevens,


BookScan TCM volume 3,277,596 1.5% week on week BookScan TCM value (£) 29,798,002 0.9% week on week


which shifted 3,489 units in its first week on sale in June 2023. The biggest Non-Fiction release


of the week, Richard Harpin’s How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps falls somewhat short of its promise (to be fair, this is the first step), deliver- ing just £36,430 across 1,846 copies in its first week, putting it in fifth place in the Hardback Non-Fiction Top 20. Instead, at the pinnacle of the ranking, The Let Them Theory by Mel and Sawyer Robbins steps aside to allow Emily English to return to the top spot with Live to Eat – the latter has sold 6,416 copies in the past seven days, a 344.3% increase on the previous week.


Steven Bartlett’s The Diary of a


CEO sees a 60.8% increase to 5,759 copies, putting it in first position in the Paperback Non-Fiction chart – with Gillian Anderson’s Want experiencing a similar increase, rising from fifth place to second. While possibly not high on


Winn’s list of problems right now, it is mixed news for The Salt Path following the Observer’s recent article. The film tie-in edition has seen its sales rise 16.3%, taking it from seventh place to fifth in the PBNF Top 20, but the original edition has lost a quarter of its sales pushing it from second down to seventh. Combined, the two editions have seen sales drop 8.9%. Which actually is a slower rate of decline than in the week prior to the Observer’s allegations. In total, the TCM has seen volume


rise 1.5% to 3.3 million books – though, conversely, value has fallen, down 0.9% to £29.8m. Compared to the same week last year, unit sales are down 4.4%, with value falling slightly slower, down 3.2%.


REPORTING Alex Call UK Top 50 21  Here One Moment Liane Moriarty Penguin, 9781405942287 22  Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349437057 23  The Sleepwalkers Scarlett Thomas Scribner UK, 9781398528420 24  Cozy Cuties Coco Wyo Penguin, 9780241764206 Walker, 9781406358780


UNI TS 4,929


4,900 4,820 4,756 25  Guess How Much… S McBratney; A Jeram 26  The Midnight Feast Lucy Foley HarperCollins, 9780008385088 27  There Are Rivers in the Sky Elif Shafak Penguin, 9780241988749 28  The Life Impossible Matt Haig Canongate, 9781838855611 29  Rewitched Lucy Jane Wood Pan Books, 9781035045471 Bloomsbury, 9781526605399 4,706 4,637 4,633 4,601 4,560 30  A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J Maas 4,560 31  Long Island Colm Tóibín Picador, 9781035029464 Fourth Estate, 9780008511715 Vintage, 9781529940442 Orbit, 9780356524733


UNI TS 4,478


32  Butter Asako Yuzuki, Polly Barton (trans) 33  Blood Ties Jo Nesbo 34  The Irresistible Urge to Fall… B Knightley Little, Brown, 9780349132600 4,460 4,356 4,294 35  The Housemaid’s Secret Freida McFadden 36  What a Way to Go Bella Mackie Borough Press, 9780008365981 37  Midnight and Blue Ian Rankin Orion, 9781398709454 38  The Women Kristin Hannah Pan Books, 9781035005697 39  The Wedding People Alison Espach Phoenix, 9781399622752 40  In Too Deep Lee and Andrew Child Penguin (Transworld), 9781804993675 4,256 4,127 4,072 4,044 4,017 3,860 41  Raising Hare Chloe Dalton Canongate, 9781837260867 42  Precipice Robert Harris Piatkus, 9780349437064 Penguin (Cornerstone), 9781804941294 43  Onyx Storm Rebecca Yarros 44  Sunrise on the Reaping Suzanne Collins Scholastic, 9780702340574 45  The Housemaid Is… Freida McFadden Poisoned Pen, 9781464223310 Macmillan Children’s, 9781035044962


UNI TS 3,687


3,468 3,462 3,437 3,430 46  Hare’s New Dress J Donaldson; A Scheffler 47  House of Flame and Shadow Sarah J Maas Bloomsbury, 9781526650344 48  The Courage to be… I Kishimi & F Koga Allen & Unwin, 9781760630737 49  The Scarlet Shedder Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9780702340291 50  Guilty Martina Cole Headline, 9781472249548 3,295 3,294 3,292 3,253 3,190 45


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