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The number of copies The Man Who Died Twice sold when it débuted in September 2021
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RICHARD OSMAN SOARED TO THE TOP OF THE CHARTS
While the rabid pre-ordering fans, Osmaniacs if you will, may number 44,000, there are of course many, many more people casually picking the cosy crime duology off the supermarket or bookshop shelves. The Thursday Murder Club has notched up 50,000 copies short of a million units sold. Its hardback, which was released just weeks before the UK would be plunged back into lockdown twice, sold even more, according to publisher Penguin Random House (Nielsen BookScan was unable to report sales figures during
lockdown periods, so its total sales stand at just under 700,000 copies on the site). Despite its incredible success so far, it seemed at least some buyers were coming to the series for the first time last week, with The Thursday Murder Club rocketing back up the Top 50 with 8,359 copies sold.
The Man Who Died Twice has similarly stellar total figures, notching up a whisker under 650,000 copies
sold. Why does Osman sell so well in hardback? Of course, name recognition will make book-buyers more confident about shelling out the extra for the hardback rather than waiting months for the paperback release. But also, they aren’t reaching that Continues overleaf
ngela Marsons’ Six Graves dug its way to the top of the Bookstat chart, securing the number one for the week ending 14th
May. It is Marsons’ fourth book to hit the digital chart top spot; most recently Stolen Ones did so, in November 2021. J D Kirk’s City of Scars débuted in second place, with Simon McCleave’s The Dark Tide surging into fourth, Scott Mariani’s The Silver Serpent slithering into fifth place and Mick Herron’s Bad Actors entering stage left in sixth. Claire Douglas returned to the chart with Then
She Vanishes, following a long successful run for The Couple at No 9 in the Bookstat chart. Emily Henry’s Book Lovers made its mark atop
the Publisher E-Book Ranking for the week ending 7th May. Ashley Audrain’s The Push returned to the chart in second, after a short tenure at 99p, and Ali Hazelwood’s Under One Roof hit third. Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis has been one of the titles leading the TikTok romance boom, notching up nearly 130,000 copies sold in paperback.
Bookstat E-Book Top 10 1
Title Six Graves 2 City of Scars
3 The Paper Palace 4 The Dark Tide
5 The Silver Serpent 6 Bad Actors
7 The Impulse Purchase 8 Then She Vanishes 9 The Keeper of Stories Origin
10 Author
EMILY HENRY TOPS THE PUBLISHER RANKING
A week ahead of The Man Who Died Twice’s
paperback release, Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club returned to the Publisher E-Book Ranking. The cosy crime title has notched up more than 30 weeks atop the chart.
Clarification Hachette has stated that Six Graves sold 31,521 units; Bad Actors 6,384; and The Impulse Purchase 7,153
Imprint
Angela Marsons Bookouture J D Kirk Zertex Crime Miranda Cowley Heller Penguin Simon McCleave Avon
Scott Mariani HarperCollins Mick Herron Baskerville Veronica Henry Orion Claire Douglas Penguin
Sally Page One More Chapter Dan Brown Transworld
ISBN (+978) Volume 1838887391 1912767625 0241990452 0008524821 0008365578 1529378702 1409183587 1405932578 0008453510 0552174169
Data source Bookstat. Week ending 14th May 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 Book Lovers 2 The Push
3 Under One Roof 4 The Couple at No 9
5 I Have Something to Tell You 6 Heartstopper Volume One 7 Better Off Dead
8 The Thursday Murder Club 9 Where the Crawdads Sing 10 The Four Winds
Author
34,896 13,823 9,832 8,473 8,231 7,273 5,941 5,185 4,873 4,817
Imprint
Emily Henry Penguin Ashley Audrain Penguin Ali Hazelwood Little, Brown Claire Douglas Penguin Susan Lewis HarperCollins
ISBN (+978) 0241995358 1405945059 1408726754 1405943413 0008287009
Alice Oseman Hachette Children’s 1444951394 Lee & Andrew Child Transworld Richard Osman Penguin Delia Owens Little, Brown Kristin Hannah Macmillan
1473579910 0241988275 1472154637 1529054606
List price £3.99 £2.99 £2.99 £2.99 £2.99 £4.99 £4.99 £5.99 £4.99 £3.99
Week ending 7th May 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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