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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


J B Priestley’s An Inspector Calls claimed the Children’s number one for a second week running. The back-to-school response seems to be especially intense this year, perhaps as the newest GCSE students have missed most of Year 8 and 9. Adam Silvera’s YA blockbuster They Both Die at the End claimed the Children’s & YA Fiction top spot for the first time since June, as Jacqueline Wilson’s The


Publisher revenues Penguin


HarperCollins Pan Macmillan S&S


Hodder


Bloomsbury Ebury Faber


Cornerstone Transworld


Children’s: Pre-school Title


1 Cat’s Cookbook 4 The Hugasaurus


£3.31m £1.28m £1.11m £1.00m £752k £466k £465k £462k £451k £373k


Primrose Railway Children, Greg James and Chris Smith’s The Great Dream Robbery, Nibbie winners M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman’s Danger at Dead Man’s Pass and Malorie Blackman’s Endgame rolled into the top 10.


Clarification Clare Povey’s The Unexpected Tale of Bastien Bonlivre (Usborne) was missed out of the Children’s & YA Fiction top 20 in last week’s issue, due to being erroneously coded as a non-fiction title.


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Naoise Dolan’s first novel Exciting Times tops the Heatseekers chart, despite its two editions being published in national lockdowns


Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien Author; Illustrator Imprint Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan...


2 There’s a Unicorn in Your Book Tom Fletcher; Greg Abbott Puffin 3 The Gruffalo and Friends Advent... Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan... Rachel Bright; Chris Chatterton Orchard


5 Bluey: The Beach - Ladybird 6 Superworm


9 The Hospital Dog


7 The Whale Who Wanted More Rachel Bright; Jim Field Orchard 8 Ten Minutes to Bed: Little Dragon R Fielding; C Chatterton Ladybird Julia Donaldson; Sara Ogilvie Macmillan...


10 The Smeds and the Smoos 11 What the Ladybird... Seaside 12 Dear Zoo


13= Where’s Spot? 13= Hide-and-Seek Pig


15 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 16 Zog


ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 1529034363 £3.57 0241466605


£4.33


1529052879 £10.08 1408356159 £4.80 0241486948


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170725 £4.46 1408349229 0241464373


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407196657 £4.06 Julia Donaldson; Lydia Monks Macmillan... Rod Campbell Macmillan... Eric Hill Warne Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan... Eric Carle Puffin


17 Super Extra Deluxe Essential... - Scholastic 18 Disney: Storybook Collection... - Autumn 19 Stick Man


20 Peppa Pig: 2021 Advent Book... - Ladybird


Children’s & YA Fiction Title


1 They Both Die at the End 2 Megamonster 3 Midnight Sun


5 The Danger Gang


6 The Great Dream Robbery 7 Danger at Dead Man’s Pass 8 One of Us is Lying


11  £4.88


£5.17 £4.49


1509868322 £4.50


1529023152 £4.52 0230747722 0723263661


£5.13 £4.32


1529023541 £3.49 0241003008


£5.60


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170763 £4.31 1338714128 1801080460


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170718 £4.55 0241533963


£6.97 £11.92 £13.25


3,954 3,020 2,703 2,164 2,159 2,112 1,899 1,887 1,838 1,755 1,752 1,589 1,510 1,510 1,476 1,464 1,456 1,430 1,427 1,422


A


dult Fiction, following the 2020 lockdown boom, is still soaring. Between


mid-March and mid-September, the category is up 16% in volume and 17% in value on 2019. The book-buying public began snatching fiction titles from the shelves ahead of the very first week of lockdown, when growing speculation that we might be quarantined for an entire three weeks saw the category boosted 32% week on week. During the first lockdown,


Author; Illustrator Imprint


Adam Silvera S&S Children’s David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins Stephenie Meyer ATOM


4 The Primrose Railway Children Jacqueline Wilson Puffin Tom Fletcher; Shane Devries Puffin G James & C Smith; A Nguyen Puffin Leonard & Sedgman; Paganelli Macmillan... Karen M McManus Penguin J K Rowling Bloomsbury Holly Jackson Farshore Malorie Blackman Penguin Charles Dickens Wordsworth... David Walliams; Tony Ross HC Children’s


9 Harry... Philosopher’s Stone 10 As Good as Dead Endgame


12 A Christmas Carol 13 Gangsta Granny


14 Eddie Albert and the Amazing... Paul O’Grady HarperCollins 15 The Boy At the Back of the Class Onjali Q Rauf Orion Children’s David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins


16  Fing


17 Paw Patrol... Dinosaur Rescue - Farshore 18 The Unexpected Tale... Bonlivre Clare Povey Usborne 19 Dog Man 9: Grime... Punishment Dav Pilkey


46 24th September 2021 Scholastic 20 The Beast of Buckingham Palace David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins


ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 1471166204


£5.17


0008487591 £7.67 0349003641 0241517765


£5.23 £7.74


0241407462 £4.63 0241470510 £9.01 1529013122 £6.43 0141375632 1408855652 1405298605 0241443996 1840227567


£6.09 £4.98 £6.48 £6.77 £2.24


0007371464 £4.14 0008446802 1510105010


0008349110 £4.49 0755502660 1474986489 0702310676


£4.16 £6.55 £5.80


0008438708 £4.58


£6.66 £4.77


4,368 3,960 2,804 2,687 2,526 2,270 2,254 2,202 2,160 1,930 1,785 1,728 1,640 1,553 1,547 1,508 1,466 1,405 1,360 1,315


Nielsen data showed 40% of people claimed to be reading more in isolation. However, unlike toilet-roll hoarding, the fiction boost continued across 2020 and into 2021. For the year to date, since sales figures returned to Nielsen BookScan in mid-March, seven of the 10 top-selling titles of the year are Adult Fiction, with Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club already knocking at the door of half a million copies sold in paperback (after publisher Penguin Random House reported a million units sold in hardback). Fiction Heatseekers, The Bookseller’s weekly chart that tracks titles by authors who have yet to chart in the Top 50, shows it isn’t just quiz show hosts benefitting from the fiction frenzy.


Naoise Dolan’s début Exciting Times tops the chart, with 30,174 copies sold in paperback. Though Exciting Times’ sales through BookScan are remarkably strong for a début, it’s likely sold many more units, given the title’s


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