70%


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Increase in sales of former Speaker John Bercow’s memoir Unspeakable week on week


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VAL MCDERMID CLAIMED THE NUMBER ONE SPOT


The latest Tony Hill and


Carol Jordan title also ended the three-week run of Kate Atkinson’s Big Sky in the Mass-Market Fiction number one spot, with McDermid racking up her first pole in the category chart since 2017’s Out of Bounds.


Katie Fforde’s


A Rose Petal Summer also blossomed in the week of Valentine’s Day, improving 47% in volume on its launch week to hit fiſth place overall and


third in the Mass-Market Fiction top 20. John Connolly’s A Book of Bones and Rosie Goodwin’s A Precious Giſt both débuted in the category chart. John Bercow’s Unspeakable was the highest new entry in the Top 50, rocketing 70% in volume against its launch week to 5,223 copies sold. A year ago, Michelle Obama’s Becoming bounced back into the Hardback Non-fiction number


one spot in the weekly chart covering 14th February, but it takes a bit more of a stretch of the imagination to picture the former speaker’s autobiography as the book-buyer’s Valentine’s giſt of choice. Compared to 2019, when Jojo Moyes’ Still Me claimed Continues overleaf 


iona Valpy’s reign in the Bookstat E-Book top 10 has continued seamlessly, as The Dressmaker’s Gift claimed the number one


for a second week running. For the week ending 15th February, the Nazi-occupied Paris-set histori- cal title zipped upwards in (estimated) volume. Faith Martin’s Hillary’s Back!, marking the return of Detective Hillary Greene, was the highest new entry in second place. The latest source material for a glossy BBC


Sunday night adaptation, Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse, also entered the chart, with some viewers clearly keen to find out what happens without waiting for the rest of the series to air. In the Publisher E-Book Ranking for the week


ending 8th February, Marian Keyes scored a print and digital double—Grown Ups went straight into the e-book top spot in the same week it topped the Original Fiction chart in hardback. Helen Fields’ Perfect Kill and Elly Griffiths’ The Lantern Men joined it in the top three.


Bookstat E-Book Top 10 1 


Title The Dressmaker’s Gift


2 Hillary’s Back! 3 His Secret Family 4 The Whisper Man 5 If I Never Met You 6 Hidden on the Fens 7 Grown Ups


8 The Pale Horse 9 Right Behind You


10 The Other Half of Augusta Hope Author


MARIAN KEYES TOPPED THE PUBLISHER RANKING


Anna Smith’s gangland thriller End Game also


made its début. It is Smith’s second title to hit the chart, following on from 2018’s Blood Feud.


Clarification Hachette has stated that His Secret Family sold 9,852 units in the period covered by the Bookstat list.


Imprint


Fiona Valpy Lake Union Faith Martin Joffe


Ali Mercer Bookouture Alex North Penguin Mhairi McFarlane HarperCollins Joy Ellis Joffe Marian Keyes Penguin Agatha Christie HarperCollins Rachel Abbott Black Dot Joanna Glen Borough Press


ISBN (+978) Volume 1542005135 1789313420 1838881047 0241367490 0008169480 1789313437 0718179748 0008196387 1999943738 0008314194


Data source Bookstat. Week ending 15th February 2020. 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 Grown Ups 2 Perfect Kill


3 The Lantern Men 4 The Silent Patient 5 Golden in Death 6 End Game 7 The Dilemma 8 Blue Moon


9 Blood Orange 10 The Family Upstairs Author


15,824 15,461 12,056 11,768 10,376 7,619 7,321 6,702 6,268 5,905


Imprint


Marian Keyes Michael Joseph Helen Fields Avon Elly Griffiths Quercus Alex Michaelides Orion


J D Robb Little, Brown Anna Smith Quercus B A Paris HQ


Lee Child Transworld Harriet Tyce


Headline Lisa Jewell Cornerstone


ISBN (+978) List price 1405918800 0008275266 1787477568 1409181644 0349422107 1787473980 0008244910 1473542310 1472252777 1473561342


Week ending 8th February 2020. 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.


£9.99 £3.99


£12.99 £3.99 £9.99 £3.99 £2.99 £7.99 £3.99 £4.99


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