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Santa Montefiore’s sixth title to appear in the Weekly E-Book Ranking scores the author her first number one


The Weekly E-Book Ranking Secret Santa has it all wrapped up Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien W


JAMES PATTERSON MOVED INTO THE TOP THREE AFTER A 76% WEEK-ON-WEEK INCREASE IN SALES


will hold on to the number one throughout the school summer holidays—or at least until the publication of Jamie Oliver’s Veg in late August. Though it failed to topple


Walliams, The Reckoning held the Mass-Market Fiction number one—Grisham’s 49th. However, only one of his titles published this decade—The Whistler, in 2017—has managed a run in the category top spot of


longer than two weeks, so he may be waiting until summer 2020 for his 50th pole in the chart. James Paterson’s latest Alex Cross title, Target, jumped 76% in volume week on week, zipping into third place. The veteran author’s solo effort held off “Captain Marvel” tie-in title Higher, Further, Faster, which blasted into fourth place in the Top 50 with 15,376 copies sold. Last week saw the release


of the film on DVD and Blu-ray, and Sainsbury’s ran a buy-one- get-a-book-free offer, which in the past has helped propel Jane Hawking’s Travelling to Infinit (the source material for Stephen Hawking biopic “The Theory of Everything”) and various “Star Continues overleaf 


ith her 10th appearance in the Weekly E-Book Ranking , Santa Montefiore scores her first number one. The


Secret Hours struck first place straight out of the gate, denying David Nicholls’ Sweet Sorrow. The long-awaited Nicholls title has had to settle for runner-up place twice now: it was denied by Jo Nesbo’s Knife in the Original Fiction chart covering the same week. Montefiore’s previous five titles have gone


straight into the weekly ranking, though none has charted higher than fifth before. Her most recent title, 2018’s The Temptation of Gracie, notched up her longest run of three weeks in the top 20, so perhaps The Secret Hours will set a new record. Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women, which has been


compared to Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, also barrelled straight into the top three. What an inter- esting time for non-fiction this is. As Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt contines to fly high in “e”, with fellow real-people memoirs The Secret Barrister, Amanda Brown’s The Prison Doctor and Rayor Winn’s The Salt Path also racking up appearances in a chart usually dominated by fiction, perhaps the success of Three Women—a study into the


role desire plays in the lives of three real women— marks an offshoot into a new genre: real-people biographies. Let’s not forget that Kay’s fellow début


Title


1 The Secret Hours 2 Sweet Sorrow 3 Three Women 4 Knife


5 This is Going to Hurt 6 The Carer


7 The Tattooist of Auschwitz 8 Under Currents 9 Big Sky


10 The Thunder Girls


11 Nine Perfect Strangers 12 After the End 13 Past Tense 14 Circe


15 The Secret Barrister 16 In a House of Lies 17 The Silent Patient 18 The Prison Doctor 19 Rachel’s Holiday 20 I Owe You One


Author


SANTA MONTEFIORE SURGED TO THE TOP


e-book blockbuster, Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz, is based on the experiences of Holocaust survivor Lale Solokov. The line between fiction and narrative non-fiction bestsellers in e-book format is becoming increasingly blurred. After the previous chart was topped by Kay


and Morris in what felt like a 2018 hangover, new entries flooded into this week’s ranking. Outside the all-new top four, Deborah Moggach’s The Carer scored sixth place and Nora Roberts’ Under Currents swiped eighth. Melanie Blake’s Jackie Collins-esque The Thunder Girls also hit the top 10. Marian Keyes’ 1997-published Rachel’s Holiday


was the chart’s oldest new entry. Given the time of year, let’s hope its buyers know that the “holiday” in the title refers to, err, rehab.


Imprint ISBN (+978)


Santa Montefiore S&S 1471169649 David Nicholls Hodder Lisa Taddeo Bloomsbury Jo Nesbo Vintage Adam Kay Picador Deborah Moggach Headline Heather Morris Zaffre


Nora Roberts Little, Brown Kate Atkinson Transworld


1444715439 1526611666 1473559936 1509858644 1472260475 1785763663 0349421919 1409043850


Melanie Blake Pan 1529017441 Liane Moriarty Michael Joseph Clar Mackintosh Little, Brown Lee Child Transworld Madeline Miller Bloomsbury The Secret Barrister Picador Ian Rankin Orion Alex Michaelides Orion


Amanda Brown HQ 0008311452 Marian Keyes Michael Joseph Sophie Kinsella Transworld


0141909813 1473555426


1405919470 0751564938 1473542303 1408890066 1509841158 1409176916 1409181644


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