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The Bestseller Charts Analysis
Queen Who Chose to Serve hiting the Children’s Non-Fiction top 20. New titles flooded into Original Fiction, with Mick Herron’s Bad Actors scoring the author’s first category chart top spot, following the Apple TV+ drop of the Gary Oldman-starring adaptation. Sara Cox’s Thrown, Sophie Irwin’s A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting and Gillian McAllister’s Wrong Place, Wrong Time soared into the top four, with Gill Sims’
Publisher revenues Penguin
HarperCollins Pan Macmillan HCG S&S
Hodder
Little, Brown Ebury Orion
Bloomsbury
Children’s: Pre-school Title
1 Mole’s Spectacles
£1.71m £1.45m £883k £636k £491k £440k £364k £306k £304k £274k
The Saturday Night Sauvignon Sisterhood securing sixth. The top three Hardback
Non-fiction titles remained solid on the week before, with Dr Julie Smith’s Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?, Tina Brown’s The Palace Papers and Douglas Murray’s The War on the West holding steady. Hussain Manawer’s poetry début Life is Sad and Beautiful was the highest new entry, in fiſth place.
High-profile names feature in the top 10, but there is a noticeable lack of new Black authors topping the charts
Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien Author; Illustrator Imprint Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan
2 Ten Minutes to Bed: Little Fairy Fielding; Chatterton Ladybird 3 Bluey: The Pool - Ladybird 4 Bluey: Daddy Putdown - Ladybird 5 Superworm
7 Where’s Spidey? 8 The Queen’s Hat 9 Dear Zoo
ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 1529034387 £4.30 0241545591 0241553732 0241550571
£5.19 £4.16 £4.76
6 Hey Duggee: Dinosaurs - BBC Children’s - Studio Press Steve Antony
Rod Campbell Macmillan...
10 Disney Classics Colouring - Autumn 11 The Official Pokémon Colour... - Orchard 12 101 Bums
13 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 14 Sticker Dolly Dressing Dogs... 15 Peppa Pig: Peppa’s Royal Party 16= The Tiger Who Came to Tea 16= Zog
18 The Smeds and the Smoos 19 Cat’s Cookbook
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170725 £4.35 1405950695 1800783010
Hodder Children’s 1444919158 1529074932 1839031298 1408354766
Sam Harper; Chris Jevons Hodder Children’s 1444955002 Eric Carle Puffin Fiona Watt; Antonia Miller Usborne Ladybird
Judith Kerr HarperCollins...
0241003008 1801313179 0241543429 0007215997
£4.14 £3.62 £5.93 £4.59 £4.14 £2.02 £1.95 £6.03 £4.36 £5.76 £4.58
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170763 £4.49 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407196657 £4.32 Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan...
20 Where’s Mrs Queen? - Nosy Crow
Children’s & YA Fiction 1
Title The World’s Worst Pets
2 Heartstopper Volume Two 3 Heartstopper Volume Three 4 Heartstopper Volume Four 5 Heartstopper Volume One 6 Heartstopper Volume One 7 Solitaire
8 Nick and Charlie 9 Twin Crowns
11 This Winter 12 There Once is a Queen
1529034363 £4.08 1788008518
£3.73
2,576 2,223 2,113 1,903 1,813 1,767 1,762 1,544 1,411 1,348 1,269 1,264 1,201 1,199 1,166 1,142 1,142 1,096 1,085 1,074
W
hen Black authors’ sales were soaring during 2020, the trade was
adamant this wasn’t just a passing fad. But even a year later, the lack of new Black authors at the top of the chart of titles by Black writers is troubling. The top 10 includes an England and Manchester United striker who is perhaps the most recognisable young Black man in the UK today; the first Black US president and former First Lady; one of Hollywood’s most likeable celebrities (up until around 10 p.m. PST on the 27th March, at least); and the first Black female Booker winner. Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing
Author; Illustrator Imprint ISBN (+978) ASP Volume
David Walliams; Adam Stower HarperCollins 0008305802 £7.38 29,193 Alice Oseman Hodder Children’s 1444951400 Alice Oseman Hodder Children’s 1444952773 Alice Oseman Hodder Children’s 1444952797 Alice Oseman Hodder Children’s 1444951387 Alice Oseman Hodder Children’s 1444968927 Alice Oseman HarperCollins... Alice Oseman HarperCollins Webber & Doyle Electric Monkey
£9.98 £9.95
£10.04 £9.78
0007559220 0008389666 0755503643
10 Skandar and the Unicorn Thief A F Steadman Simon & Schuster 1398502710 Alice Oseman HarperCollins Michael Morpurgo HarperCollins Holly Jackson Electric Monkey
13 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 14 They Both Die at the End 15 The Deep End 16 Girl in Pieces 17 Radio Silence
18 Harry Potter and the... Stone
19 Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose Dav Pilkey 20 Loveless
42 20th May 2022 Alice Oseman HarperCollins
0241396957 1780749457 0007559244 1408855652 1338801941 0008244125
0008412937 0008541613 1405293181
Adam Silvera Simon & Schuster 1471166204 Jeff Kinney Puffin Kathleen Glasgow Oneworld Alice Oseman HarperCollins J K Rowling Bloomsbury Scholastic
£10.19 £8.31 £8.03 £8.45 £9.34 £8.09
£10.21 £6.03 £5.26 £4.60 £6.68 £8.71 £5.16 £7.61 £8.49
13,045 11,272 10,779 9,621 7,009 5,958 5,883 3,433 3,248 3,138 2,630 2,509 2,411 2,192 1,993 1,975 1,881 1,731 1,716
Half was a stellar seller, rocketing into second place overall with more than 158,119 copies sold in paperback. Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize, the Waterstones Book of the Year and the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year in 2021, the title shifted more than 9,000 copies each week in May 2021, when it was Waterstones’ Fiction Book of the Month pick. However,
many of the new titles in the fiction charts were by Bennett’s fellow American authors. The exception was
Britain-based writer Abi Daré, whose The Girl with the Louding Voice sold steadily on release in autumn 2020—before rocketing in sales in spring 2021, when it was featured on BBC2 show “Between the Covers”. The title jumped 156% in volume week on week in the last week of May, as the show’s
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