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Richard Osman’s Te Man Who Died Twice is the seventh fastest-selling adult novel since records began


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week’s number one


RICHARD OSMAN STORMED TO THE SUMMIT OF THE CHARTS


The Mirror and the Light, and indeed Dan Brown’s most recent title, 2017’s Origin, which sold “only” 100,095 copies upon its launch. It’s interesting to see the power of the sequel in pushing first-week sales to dizzying heights.


Of course, those pre-orders have to come from somewhere, and surely The Man Who Died Twice has been racking up those sales since The Thursday Murder Club first graced the shelves. Technically the fastest-selling standalone novel is J K Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy, but that hugely benefited from the Harry Poter phenomenon that came before it. Similarly, Zoe “Zoella” Sugg’s YA novel Girl Online was widely regarded as the fastest-


selling début since records began, though she did have the power of 10 million YouTube subscribers behind her.


Even celebrit doesn’t hold as much sway in Adult Fiction, compared to Non-Fiction and Children’s. Osman is the highest- ranking celeb in the fastest-seller fiction chart by a long way— Brown, Rowling, Harper Lee and E L James are all very famous, but found their fame through books. Continues overleaf 


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ichard Osman’s The Man Who Died Twice scored the Bookstat e-book number one for the week ending 18th September, doubling


up on its print number one—and leapfrogging Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You in both charts. The Thursday Murder Club also returned to the e-book chart, swiping fourth place. Crime writer J M Dalgliesh débuted in second


place with To Die For, as Melinda Leigh’s Right Behind Her entered in seventh place. The current Paperback Non-fiction number one in print, Cathy Glass’ An Innocent Baby, charted ninth in the Bookstat chart. J D Robb’s Forgotten in Death zipped into the


Publisher E-Book Ranking top spot for the week ending 11th September, followed by Gillian McAllister’s That Night in second place. Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding’s memoir, Hear


Me Out made its début in the Publisher E-Book Ranking, in the same week her death at the age of 39 was announced.


Bookstat E-Book Top 10 1 


Title The Man Who Died Twice 2 To Die For 3 One August Night


4 The Thursday Murder Club 5 The Holiday 6 The Road Trip 7 Right Behind Her 8 The Therapist


9 An Innocent Baby 10 Apples Never Fall


Author


J D ROBB TOPS THE PUBLISHER RANKING


Clarification Hachette has stated that One August Night sold 12,871 copies; and The Road Trip 5,500.


Imprint


Richard Osman Penguin J M Dalgliesh Hamilton Victoria Hislop Headline Richard Osman Penguin T M Logan Zaffre Beth O’Leary Quercus Melinda Leigh Montlake B A Paris HQ Digital Cathy Glass Harper Element Liane Moriarty Penguin


ISBN (+978) Volume 0241425428 1800802629 1472278449 0241425442 1542028639 1529409093 1542007047 0008412043 0008466480 0241396087


33,450 11,448 10,122 8,021 7,108 5,750 5,620 5,558 5,490 5,354


Data source Bookstat. Week ending 18th September 2021. 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 Forgotten in Death 2 That Night


3 The Heron’s Cry Magpie


4 


5 Hear Me Out 6 Troubled Blood


7 Don’t You Forget About Me 8 A Slow Fire Burning


9 Where the Crawdads Sing Exit


10  Author


Imprint J D Robb Piatkus


Gillian McAllister Michael Joseph Ann Cleeves Macmillan Elizabeth Day Fourth Estate Sarah Harding Ebury Robert Galbraith Sphere


Mhairi McFarlane HarperCollins Paula Hawkins Transworld Delia Owens Corsair Belinda Bauer Transworld


ISBN (+978) 0349426310 1405942454 1509889662 0008374969 1473593350 0751579963 0008169329 1473542228 1472154637 1473562127


List price £9.99 £2.99 £9.99 £7.99 £9.99 £4.99 £2.99 £8.49 £4.99 £2.99


Week ending 11th September 2021. 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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