DATA


The Bestseller Charts Analysis


consistency—each week has posted a value between £28m and £29.5m, and the past five weeks have seen weekly volume figures within 200,000 units of one another. However, up against a particularly


strong week in 2021, the year-on-year numbers were down for the first time


since Nielsen BookScan figures are able to post such compari- sons, owing to data blackouts in 2021. Volume dropped 3.8% and value 7.4% against the same week last year.


Lee and Andrew Child’s Better Off Dead held the Mass-Market Fiction number one for a third straight week, as Bella Mackie’s How to Kill Your Family sliced into second place, selling 12,544 copies in its first week in


paperback. Mackie’s fiction début, which has sold more than 50,000 copies in hardback, was the highest new entry in the Top


TCM actual selling price 52-week history


£10


Original Fiction Title


1 Portrait of a Thief 2 Young Mungo


3 Lessons in Chemistry 4 Storm Tide 5 The No-Show 6 With This Kiss 7 Dream Town


8 The Man Who Died Twice 9 Elizabeth Finch 10 Run Rose Run


11 Amongst Our Weapons 12 Again, Rachel 13 Vanished


14 The Hunger of the Gods 15 The Paris Apartment 16 Companion Piece 17 The Atlas Six 18 Villager 19 The Match 20 French Braid


Author Grace D Li


Douglas Stuart Bonnie Garmus


Imprint Coronet Picador


Doubleday


W Smith & T Harper Zaffre Beth O’Leary


Carrie Hope Fletcher HQ David Baldacci Richard Osman Julian Barnes


Quercus


Macmillan Viking


D Parton & J Patterson Century Ben Aaronovitch Marian Keyes


Lynda La Plante John Gwynne Lucy Foley Ali Smith


Olivie Blake Tom Cox


Harlan Coben Anne Tyler


Mass-Market Fiction Title


1 Better Off Dead


2 How to Kill Your Family 3 It Ends with Us


4 The Thursday Murder Club 5 Klara and the Sun 6 Ugly Love 7 Not Dark Yet 8 Verity


9 The Distant Shores


10 The Viscount Who Loved Me 11 Private Rogue


£5


13 The Lamplighters 14 The Midnight Hour 15 The Whispers 16 Still Life


£0 £8.21  YEAR ON YEAR n/a% Gollancz


ISBN (+978)


ASP Volume


1529386394 £16.95 12,090 1529068764 £14.81 11,865 0857528124 £12.22 1838775575 £10.59 1529409109


£8.69


0008400958 £12.20 1529061833 £11.50 0241425428 £10.77


Jonathan Cape 1787333932 £15.12 1529135671 £10.86 1473226661 £17.08


Michael Joseph 0241441121 £11.49 Zaffre Orbit


1838778712 £10.25 0356514222 £18.25


HarperCollins 0008384982 £10.09 Hamish Hamilton 0241541340 £16.13 Tor


Unbound Century


1529095234 £14.90 1800181342


1529135480 £11.15 Chatto & Windus 1784744625 £15.97 £8.75


4,950 4,656 4,632 4,532 3,201 2,464 2,398 2,309 2,070 1,863 1,527 1,489 1,456 1,347 1,220 1,030 1,029 1,011


Author


Colleen Hoover Richard Osman Kazuo Ishiguro Colleen Hoover Peter Robinson Colleen Hoover Santa Montefiore Julia Quinn


Imprint


Lee & Andrew Child Penguin Bella Mackie


ISBN (+978) 0552177528


Borough Press 0008365943 Simon & Schuster 1471156267 Penguin


Faber & Faber 0571364909 Simon & Schuster 1471136726 Hodder Sphere


J Patterson & A Hamdy Penguin


Picador Quercus Penguin


0241988268


1529343083 1408726600


Simon & Schuster 1471197062 Piatkus


12 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn... Taylor Jenkins Reid Simon & Schuster 1398515697 Emma Stonex Elly Griffiths Heidi Perks


17 The Love Hypothesis 18 The Missing Sister


20 The Heron’s Cry


Sarah Winman Ali Hazelwood Lucinda Riley


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


Fourth Estate 0008283391 Sphere Pan


1408725764 1509840199


Headline Review 1472272669 Pan


1509889709


0349432137 1529156850


1529047356 1787477605 1529157017


ASP Volume £5.17 17,266 £5.79 12,544 £5.88 11,250 £5.92 £6.65 £5.64 £4.86 £5.66 £4.71 £5.26 £4.40 £6.36 £6.71 £4.75 £4.41 £6.22 £5.89 £5.22 £5.00 £5.62


8,151 7,716 7,534 7,385 6,984 6,923 6,026 5,972 5,839 5,736 5,350 4,764 4,651 4,582 4,514 4,505 4,338


Heatseekers Fiction


The Heatseekers charts are compiled using titles by authors who have not appeared in The Official UK Top 50 since Nielsen BookScan records began. As such, they reveal books that are selling well, but not well enough to make the


overall list in a seven-day period. For more Heatseekers charts, visit thebookseller.com.


18 22nd April 2022


Title


1 My Hero Academia, Vol. 30 2 You and Me on Vacation 3 Hope for the Railway Girls 4 The Fine Print


5 Hook, Line, and Sinker 6 The Twins


7 The Hunger of the Gods 8 How to Kidnap the Rich 9 Death and Croissants 10 Red, White & Royal Blue


Author


Kohei Horikoshi Emily Henry


Maisie Thomas Lauren Asher Tessa Bailey L V Matthews John Gwynne Rahul Raina Ian Moore


Casey McQuiston


Imprint Viz


Penguin Penguin Piatkus Avon


Welbeck Orbit


Abacus Farrago


Macmillan


ISBN (+978) 1974727155 0241992234 1529156942 0349433448 0063045699 1787399174


£7.02 £5.86 £4.96 £8.37 £8.02 £5.65


0356514222 £18.25 0349144375 1788424233 1529099461


£7.27 £7.51 £8.26


ASP Volume 1,996 1,958 1,864 1,591 1,522 1,491 1,489 1,254 1,207 1,187


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