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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


The Official UK Top 50 Highway Code clutches second top spot


Title £29.2m  TCM value


WEEK ON WEEK –0.3%


A new edition of The Official Highway Code has topped the bestseller charts, some 23 years after the title last led the UK’s bestseller lists


Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien


T


he Official Highway Code’s tres have screeched to a halt in the Official UK


Top 50 number one spot for the first time since April 1999. The 2022 edition sold 19,022 copies last week, its first full week on the shelves. With the new edition boasting new changes to the rules of the road, weekly sales have already far outstripped the 2015-published edition. Though that edition recently had a very good run in the charts, notching up several of its record weeks in 2021, as driving tests and lessons returned post-lockdown, its record week was roughly a quar- ter the size of the 2022 edition’s volume last week.


The 2015 edition also never once topped the overall bestseller 16 22nd April 2022


1 The Official Highway Code 2 Better Off Dead


3 How to Kill Your Family 4 Five Little Easter Bunnies 5 Portrait of a Thief 6 Young Mungo 7 It Ends with Us


9 The Thursday Murder Club 10 Klara and the Sun 11 Ugly Love 12 Not Dark Yet


Author; Illustrator -


Imprint


Lee & Andrew Child Penguin Bella Mackie


Douglas Stuart Colleen Hoover


Coronet Picador


ISBN TCM total Volume


Stationery Office 0115539954 30,794 19,022 0552177528 63,920 17,266


Borough Press 0008365943 12,773 12,544


M Mumford; S Jennings Bloomsbury... 1526625120 57,580 12,171 Grace D Li


1529386394 12,244 12,090 1529068764 11,872 11,865


8 Supertato: The Great Eggscape! S Hendra & P Linnet Simon & Schuster 1398511613 52,665 Richard Osman Kazuo Ishiguro Colleen Hoover Peter Robinson Pip Payne


Penguin 0241988268 926,053


13 The Slimming Foodie in One 14 Why Has Nobody Told Me... 15 Verity


16 The Distant Shores


18 The Meal Prep King... Slim 19 The Viscount Who Loved Me 20 Private Rogue


22 Where the Crawdads Sing 23 The Lamplighters


24 Happy Mind, Happy Life


26 Bluey: Easter Fun Activity 27 The Midnight Hour 28 Until the End 29 The Last Bear


30 Lessons in Chemistry 31 The Whispers


33 Mole’s Spectacles 34 Storm Tide 35 Still Life


Faber & Faber 0571364909 66,405 Simon & Schuster 1471136726 143,736 Hodder Aster


Dr Julie Smith Colleen Hoover Santa Montefiore


Michael Joseph 0241529713 131,076 Sphere


Simon & Schuster 1471197062


Michael Joseph 0241558119 Piatkus


6,149


1529343083 25,669 1783254996


7,295


1408726600 80,412 6,966


17 We’re Going on an Egg Hunt M Mumford; L Hughes Bloomsbury... 1408889749 89,132 The Meal Prep King Julia Quinn


J Patterson & A Hamdy Penguin


Corsair Picador


21 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn... Taylor Jenkins Reid Simon & Schuster 1398515697 126,367 Delia Owens Emma Stonex


25 Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose Dav Pilkey -


Dr Rangan Chatterjee Penguin Life Scholastic Ladybird Quercus


Elly Griffiths Derek Landy


H Gold; L Pinfold Bonnie Garmus Heidi Perks


5,760


0241550588 17,510 1787477605


HarperCollins 0008411312 34,029 Doubleday Penguin


0857528124 10,744 1529157017


32 We’re Going on an Egg Hunt M Mumford; L Hughes Bloomsbury J Donaldson; A Scheffler Macmillan... W Smith & T Harper Zaffre Sarah Winman Fiona Watt Beth O’Leary Ali Hazelwood


36 Little Sticker Dolly... Easter 37 The No-Show


38 The Love Hypothesis 39 With This Kiss


40 The Missing Sister 42 The Heron’s Cry


43 Peppa Pig: Peppa’s Easter... 44 The Deep End


45 They Both Die at the End 46 Songbirds


47 I Have Something to Tell You 48 The Spanish Love Deception 49 The Midnight Library


50 The Island of Missing Trees


Carrie Hope Fletcher HQ Lucinda Riley


41 Three Weddings and a Proposal Sheila O’Flanagan Ann Cleeves -


Jeff Kinney


Adam Silvera Christy Lefteri Susan Lewis Elena Armas Matt Haig Elif Shafak


Pan 4,777


Fourth Estate 0008283391 50,556 Usborne Quercus Sphere


1801314862 16,455 1529409109


4,701


1408725764 115,443 0008400958


4,539 1509840199 48,962


Ladybird Puffin


1509889709 77,210 0241543467 16,737 0241396957 56,589


1786580856 33,886


HarperCollins 0008287023 54,908 Simon & Schuster 1398515628 74,371 Canongate Penguin


1786892737 563,715 0241988725


9,461


Week ending 16th April 2022. Key New Up Same Down Unless otherwise stated, charts use data from Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market, representing print book sales through around 6,500 retailers. Any title discounted by more than 74.5% is ineligible for inclusion.


Simon & Schuster 1471156267 362,499 11,250 9,623 8,151 7,716 7,534 7,385 7,267 7,262 6,984 6,923 6,836 6,146 6,026 5,972 5,839 5,762 5,736 5,690 5,596 5,412 5,350 5,314 5,071 4,950 4,764 4,714 4,685 4,656 4,651 4,635 4,632 4,582 4,532 4,514 4,505 4,338 4,261 4,125 4,092 4,058 4,011 3,997 3,996 3,960


0349432137 20,310 1529156850 19,517


1472154668 591,469 1529047356 14,556 0241397855 26,573 1338801941


HarperCollins 0008386351


5,522 5,365


4,769


1408870112 115,480 1529034387 50,598 1838775575


Headline Review 1472272669 16,024 Pan


S&S Children’s 1471166204 286,558 Manilla


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