5 Titles posted a six-figure first-week sale in 2019


Bookstat Print Pre-order Chart Hinch cleans up ahead of April release


Personal trainer James Smith,


another Instagram sensation, also scored high in the pre-order chart, with Not a Diet Book soaring into second place. The no-nonsense guide to health was published in late January and sold 26,417 copies in its first week on sale, coming within a few thousand copies of toppling Pinch of Nom: Everyday Light from the overall number one. Arguably the most-awaited


fiction release of the year—and barring the announcement of a ninth Harry Potter book, probably the decade—Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light was in third place for pre-orders over January, racking up an estimated 2,096 sales. With its release date confirmed all the way back in May 2019, the third novel in Mantel’s double- Booker-winning Cromwell trilogy is due to get the royal treatment from retail- ers, with Waterstones in particular rolling out the red carpet with an


Title


1 Mrs Hinch... Book of Lists 2 Not a Diet Book


3 The Mirror and the Light 4 Dear Life 5 Motherwell


6 Five Minute Mum 7 Grown Ups


8 Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed. 9 American Dirt


11 Feed Your Family for £20... 12 Queenie


13 The Lantern Men 15 Open


In the spotlight


HILARY MANTEL AND LEFT MRS HINCH HAVE BEEN POPULAR IN PRE-ORDER STAKES


Hinch’s books went on to sell 787,696 copies in total, upping her Flash budget by a ridy £5.4m


exclusive launch event. The Mirror and the Light will be looking to beat fellow heavyweight literary fiction sequel Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, which in 2019 sold 103,177 units in its first week on sale, becoming the biggest- selling hardback fiction title of the year—and swiping a Booker Prize along the way. Among memoirs, Rachel


Author Imprint


Mrs Hinch Michael Joseph James Smith HarperCollins Hilary Mantel Fourth Estate Rachel Clarke Little, Brown Deborah Orr Orion Daisy Upton Penguin


Marian Keyes Michael Joseph Chris Ramsey Michael Joseph Jeanine Cummins Tinder Press


10 Dungeons & Dragons Explorer... – Dungeons... Lorna Cooper Seven Dials Kimberley Chambers HarperCollins Elly Griffiths Quercus


14 This Book Could Save Your Life Graham Lawton John Murray Frankie Bridge Cassell Suzanne Collins Scholastic Tanis Gray Pavilion Carol D Leonnig Bloomsbury Kate Murphy Harvill Secker Sanchez Vegara Frances Lincoln


16 The Ballad of Songbirds... 17 Harry Potter Knitting Magic 18 A Very Stable Genius 19= You’re Not Listening 19= David Attenborough


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ISBN (+978) Volume 0241461877 0008374273 0007480999 1408712528 1474611459 0241443620 0718179748 0241447123 1472261397 0786966912 1409195672 0008144821 1787477537 1529311303 1788401708 0702300172 1911641926 1526609076 1787300958 0711245631


4,680 3,638 2,096 1,479 1,227 1,209 1,113 1,064 848 822 764 734 634 620 593 553 545 544 539 539


Clarke’s junior-doctor title Dear Life and Deborah Orr’s posthumously published Motherwell also racked up strong pre-orders ahead of their January publications. Both books hit the pre-order top five for the month, and both vaulted into the Nielsen BookScan TCM’s overall top 30 in their launch weeks. Only one title


to feature in the chart has a publication date that was even further into the distance than Mrs Hinch: The


Little Book of Lists—Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes isn’t released until the end of May. A recently published excerpt in Entertainment Weekly invoked ire when it revealed the main charac- ter was evil villain-to-be President Snow—yet pre-orders seem to have soared all the same.


Date Range 1st–31st January 2020 Source Bookstat


Grown Ups Marian Keyes Michael Joseph Marian Keyes’ latest hardback Grown Ups claimed the Original Fiction number one on its release in early February, the author’s first since 2008—no surprise, consider- ing it had garnered an impressive 1,113 pre-orders the month before.


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David Attenborough Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara Frances Lincoln Children’s The Little People, Big Dreams title David Attenborough became the first book of the autobiography series to claim the Children’s Non-fiction number one on its release a week ago—and it also scored 20th place in the pre-order chart.


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