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David Baldacci claimed his second Mass-Market Fiction number one of the year with A Minute to Midnight


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week’s top new entry


MARY TRUMP’S TALE OF THE PRESIDENT CHARTED IN THIRD


Montefiore’s The Secret Hours rose to the runner-up spot. Last week’s highest new entry overall was Mary L Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough, an exposé of US president’s psychological make-up by his niece. The title rocketed to third place overall and swiped the Hardback Non-fiction number one, selling 15,262 copies in its first week on sale. Donald Trump’s presidency could


hardly be called an unqualified success, but from the moment he took office, book sales (and in particular print book sales) have benefited—on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s been said that Barack Obama’s election in 2008 boosted sales of guns in the US, while Trump’s shock win in 2016 helped book sales rise. There’s no doubt the reaction to the current White House resident has practi- cally re-invented


the political biography category, though not in the way he may have hoped. Famously, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eight-four topped the US charts in the week of Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, when it also posted its highest weekly sale during the Continues overleaf 


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an Rankin’s In a House of Lies has taken out a mortgage in the Bookstat e-book chart number one, spending a second week running at the top.


For the week ending 18th July, the crime title held off a strong challenge from lockdown favourite Beth O’Leary’s The Flatshare, which ruled the Bookstat chart for much of April. Rankin’s compatriot and fellow crime writer Val McDermid’s A Place of Execution débuted in third place. It’s rare for a non-fiction title to break through in e-book, with the exception of books the US president has bestowed with enraged free publicity, hence Mary L Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough débuted in fourth place. Meera Sodha’s East, however, bucked the trend (though the leader of the free world may yet denounce it): the vegetarian cookbook placed fifth, after a brief period priced at 99p. Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing was


finally elbowed from the Publisher E-Book Ranking top spot by Peter James’ Find Them Dead, which


Bookstat E-Book Top 10 1 


Title In a House of Lies 2 The Flatshare 3 A Place of Execution


4 Too Much and Never Enough 5 East


6 Leaving Time


7 The Berwyn River Killings 8 Jamaica Inn


9 The Day She Came Back 10 The Murder Game


Author


COOKERY WRITER MEERA SODHA WAS A RARE


NON-FICTION ENTRANT


also topped the Original Fiction chart in the same week in hardback. New entries flurried into the chart, including Jane Fallon’s Queen Bee, S J Parris’ Execution and Karen Swan’s The Hidden Beach.


Clarification Hachette has stated that In a House of Lies sold 15,044 units; The Flatshare 8,795; Leaving Time 7,001; Jamaica Inn 5,523; and The Murder Game 6,490.


Imprint


Ian Rankin Orion Beth O’Leary Quercus Val McDermid HarperCollins Mary L Trump Simon & Schuster Meera Sodha Penguin


ISBN (+978) Volume 1409176909 1787474413 0008373160 1471190131 0241387566


Jodi Picoult Hodder & Stoughton 1444778168 Simon McCleave Stamford Daphne Du Maurier Virago Amanda Prowse Lake Union Rachel Abbott Wildfire


8664152579 1844080397 1542014496 1472254962


17,099 11,467 10,611 9,640 8,896 8,000 7,231 6,986 6,798 6,748


Data source Bookstat. Week ending 11th July 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 Find Them Dead 2 Queen Bee


3 Where the Crawdads Sing 4 Execution


5 The Hidden Beach 6 Girl, Woman, Other


7 The Beekeeper of Aleppo 8 Greek Island Escape


9 The House of Lamentations 10 The Family Upstairs


Author


Imprint


Peter James Macmillan Jane Fallon Michael Joseph Delia Owens Little, Brown S J Parris HarperCollins


Hamish Hamilton


Christy Lefteri Zaffre Patricia Wilson Zaffre S G MacLean Quercus Lisa Jewell Cornerstone


ISBN (+978) 1529004342 1405943352 1472154637 0007481316


Karen Swan Pan 1529006230 Bernardine Evaristo


0241985007 1785769023 1838770730 1787473645 1473561342


List price £9.99 £4.99 £4.99 £8.99 £3.99 £4.99 £4.99 £4.99 £8.99 £3.99


Week ending 18th July 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 & Joffe Books.


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