24th July 2020

DATA Nielsen era in the UK.

But the game changed upon the release of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, a fly-on-the-wall account of the administration, in 2018. Subject to a cease-and-desist leter, US publisher Henry Holt pushed publication forward in defiance—leading to a scramble for

copies in the UK, with book buyers desperate to hear about the president’s thrice-daily McDonald’s habit.

Becoming the first political title about a foreign leader to hit the UK top spot, Fire and Fury also pulled in over £1m in a single week, with a sky-high average selling price of £17.10. Since then, anti-Trump titles have come thick and fast: Bob Woodward’s Fear also went to number one later in

2018, with sacked FBI director James Comey’s A Higher Loyalt, Hilary Clinton’s What Happened and even Stormy Daniels’ Full Disclosure hiting the hardback charts in quick succession. Michelle Obama’s Becoming, the 2018 Christmas Number One (and with sales to date of just under 750,000 units) certainly wasn’t hindered by the anti-Trump wave either.

With the 2020 election loom-

ing, John Bolton’s The Room Where It Happened (try not to sing that title) leapt into the charts a

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.

16 24th July 2020

The Bestseller Charts Analysis

Original Fiction Title

1 Utopia Avenue 2 Find Them Dead

3 Daughters of Cornwall 4 Peace Talks 5 Daddy’s Girls 6 Here and Now 7 Execution 8 1st Case

9 Queen of Storms 10 The Vanishing Half 11 The Silent Wife

12 The Mirror and the Light Liar

13 

14 Camino Winds Hamnet

15 

16 If It Bleeds 17 Fair Warning 18 The Cleaner

19 The Shadow Friend 20 Just My Luck

Author

Imprint

David Mitchell Sceptre Peter James Macmillan Fern Britton HarperCollins Jim Butcher Orbit Danielle Steel Macmillan

ISBN (+978) 1444799422 1529004304 0008225254 0356500911 1509878222

Santa Montefiore Simon & Schuster 1471169663 S J Parris HarperCollins James Patterson Century Raymond E Feist HarperCollins Brit Bennett Dialogue Karin Slaughter HarperCollins Hilary Mantel Fourth Estate Lesley Pearse Michael Joseph John Grisham Hodder Maggie O’Farrell Tinder Press Stephen King Hodder Michael Connelly Orion Mark Dawson Welbeck

Alex North Michael Joseph

Mass-Market Fiction Title

1 A Minute to Midnight 2 The Secret Hours 3 The Second Sleep 4 The Hidden Beach 5 Girl, Woman, Other

6 Where the Crawdads Sing 7 Queen Bee

8 How to Disappear 9 No Mercy

10 Cajun Justice 11 Blue Moon

12 The Beekeeper of Aleppo 13 Normal People 14 So Lucky

15 The Secret of Cold Hill 16 The Shape of Night 17 The Family Upstairs Queenie

18 

19 The Nickel Boys 20 The Guardians

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£17.14 £11.37 £6.08

£17.15 £9.89

£10.39 £10.44 £11.06 £16.60 £12.34 £10.55 £16.02 £10.68 £11.66 £17.24 £10.84 £11.74 £5.70 £6.61 £5.81

Volume 6,955 5,569 3,695 2,912 2,467 2,245 2,221 1,868 1,711 1,683 1,683 1,585 1,296 1,043 1,041 1,014 981 980 953 942

Author

Imprint

ISBN (+978)

David Baldacci Pan 1509874484 Santa Montefiore Simon & Schuster 1471169656 Robert Harris Arrow

1787460966

Karen Swan Pan 1529006223 Bernardine Evaristo

Penguin

Delia Owens Corsair Jane Fallon Penguin

Gillian McAllister Penguin 1405942423 Martina Cole Headline James Patterson Arrow Lee Child Bantam Christy Lefteri Manilla

Sally Rooney Faber & Faber Dawn O’Porter HarperCollins

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Peter James Pan 1509816255 Tess Gerritsen Bantam Lisa Jewell Arrow Candice Carty-Williams Trapeze Colson Whitehead Fleet John Grisham Hodder

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£4.22 £4.46 £4.84 £4.16 £6.82 £6.88 £4.83 £4.35 £4.31 £3.99 £5.23 £5.62 £5.69 £4.65 £4.49 £4.59 £4.92 £6.67 £7.19 £5.05

Volume 15,573 14,738 13,147 11,458 11,428 10,265 9,428 9,073 7,335 6,952 6,198 6,197 6,087 6,042 5,768 5,723 5,544 5,320 5,047 5,024

Title 1 Peace Talks 2 Sorry for the Dead 3 A Perfect Cornish Escape

5 The Vanishing Half 6 A Sister’s Song

Author

Imprint Jim Butcher Orbit

Nicola Upson Faber & Faber Phillipa Ashley Avon

ISBN (+978) 0356500911 0571337378 0008371579

4 The Photographer of the Lost Caroline Scott Simon & Schuster 1471183119 Brit Bennett Dialogue Molly Green Avon George Orwell Penguin Taffy Brodesser-Akner Wildfire L J Ross

7 Nineteen Eighty-Four 8 Fleishman is in Trouble 9 Holy Island

10 The Half Sister Dark Skies Sandie Jones Pan

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£17.15 £6.67 £4.34 £5.07

£12.34 £4.30 £7.83 £7.18 £4.40 £4.34

Volume 2,912 2,024 1,975 1,800 1,683 1,625 1,590 1,419 1,321 1,317

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