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The Official Highway Code tops the Official UK Top 50 for just the second time in its history—23 years after its last pole


Digital Bestseller Lists Clean sweep for Fossil Beach Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien R


GRACE D LI CHARTED FIFTH OVERALL WITH PORTRAIT OF A THIEF


chart, and neither did its own predecessors, the 2007 and 2001 editions—though all three have surpassed a million copies sold in total. Of course, The Official Highway Code is the ultimate consistent seller, with the last edition dropping below 1,000 copies for the first time only in the last week of 2021, and for the second time this February, weeks away from the new edition’s release.


Perhaps the fact the 2022 edition has sold so much faster is a sign of how buying habits have changed and how the pre-order market has gained strength in the intervening years since The Official Highway Code has been re-released. In fact, last week’s 19,022 copies sold is the second-highest single week for any edition of The Official Highway Code, and is well clear of the first three volumes the title shiſted to claim the overall number


one spot, 23 years ago. At 3.5 million books sold for £29.1m, the market held fairly steady for another week, rising 1.3% in volume yet dropping 0.3% in value week on week. Since the start of March, print has demonstrated remarkable Continues overleaf 


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achel McLean’s The Fossil Beach Murders dusted off the Bookstat e-book number one for the week ending 16th April. McLean’s


previous titles have become staples in the Bookstat chart—The Corfe Castle Murders has notched up a particularly long string of appearances, as recently as a week ago. The Fossil Beach Murders nudged Lisa Jewell’s


former number one The Night She Disappeared into second place, as Graham Norton’s The Swimmer and Mhairi McFarlane’s Mad About You made their débuts in the top five. Lisa Regan’s Watch Her Disappear and Ember Blake’s Runaway Train also hit the chart’s top 10. Ben Aaronovitch’s Amongst Our Weapons,


the ninth title in the Rivers of London series, surged into the Publisher E-Book Ranking pole for the week ending 9th April. Susan Lewis’ I Have Something to Tell You hit second place as Julia Quinn’s Romancing Mr Bridgerton and To Sir Phillip, with Love continued to chart high.


Bookstat E-Book Top 10 1 


Title The Fossil Beach Murders


2 The Night She Disappeared 3 The Swimmer 4 The Push


5 Mad About You 6 Bamburgh


7 Watch Her Disappear 8 The Couple at No 9 9 Runaway Train


10 Romancing Mr Bridgerton Author


Rachel McLean Lisa Jewell


Graham Norton Ashley Audrain Mhairi McFarlane L J Ross


Lisa Regan


Claire Douglas Ember Blake Julia Quinn


LATEST MAKES ITS DEBUT IN DIGITAL


BETH O’LEARY’S Beth O’Leary’s The Flatshare was an e-book


chart stalwart across Lockdown 1.0 two years ago— her subsequent titles The Switch and The Road Trip have also performed strongly in digital. Her new title, The No-Show, made itself visible, débuting in eighth place.


Clarification Hachette has stated that The Swimmer sold 7,682, Watch Her Disappear 4,889 and Romancing Mr Bridgerton 2,503.


Imprint


Ackroyd Penguin Coronet Penguin


HarperCollins -


Bookouture Penguin


ISBN (+978/9) Volume 1913401221 19,539 1529156270 11,837 1529388015 1405945059 0008412456 1912310197 1803143200 1405943413


Thomas Crown 8800785890 Little, Brown


0349429458


8,174 6,719 5,708 4,919 4,878 4,742 4,384 4,114


Data source Bookstat. Week ending 16th April 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 Amongst Our Weapons


2 I Have Something to Tell You 3 Romancing Mr Bridgerton 4 The Four Winds


5 To Sir Phillip, with Love 6 The Thursday Murder Club 7 Better Off Dead 8 The No-Show


9 Desperate Undertaking 10 The Man Who Died Twice


Author


Ben Aaronovitch Susan Lewis Julia Quinn


Kristin Hannah Julia Quinn


Richard Osman


Imprint Orion


HarperCollins Little, Brown Macmillan


Little, Brown Penguin


Quercus


ISBN (+978) List price 1473226708 £18.99 0008287009 0748115716 1529054606 0748115723 0241988275


Lee and Andrew Child Transworld Digital 1473579910 Beth O’Leary Lindsey Davis Richard Osman


1529409123


Hodder & Stoughton 1529354713 Penguin


0241988251


£2.99 £3.99 £3.99 £3.99 £5.99 £4.99 £8.99 £9.99 £9.99


Week ending 9th April 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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