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The Bestseller Charts Analysis
Paperback Non-fiction number one, rising 34% in volume compared against its first week on sale. It was a good week for memoirs, with Fox’s fellow mili- tary memoirist Ant Middleton’s First Man In also jumping, and Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt somehow improving week on week, holding second place and inching towards the 800,000- unit mark well over a year aſter its paperback release. Doctors
Publisher revenues Penguin
HarperCollins Pan Macmillan Hodder
Transworld Vintage Ebury
Usborne
Cornerstone Bloomsbury
Children’s: Pre-school Title
1 Oi Duck-billed Platypus! 2 The Wonky Donkey
5 Write Your Own Story Book 6 Sugarlump and the Unicorn 7 Mega Make and Do... 8 Lift-the-Flap... Dinosaurs 9 Dear Zoo 10 Zog
11 What the Ladybird Heard...
13 The Tiger Who Came to Tea 14 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 15 Where’s the Unicorn? 16 The Ugly Five 17 Where’s Spot?
18 I Need a New Bum! 19 That’s Not My Flamingo
£1.81m £1.51m £1.01m £618k £596k £571k £398k £383k £383k £348k
Richard Shepherd and Amanda Brown scored top 20 places with their own medical memoirs— covering forensic pathology and prisons, respectively—and justice system-whistleblower The Secret Barrister leapt to third. With mercury-melting
temperatures currently being recorded in the UK, perhaps Greta Thunberg’s No One is Too Small to Make a Difference will be next week’s biggest riser.
George Orwell tops the heatseekers chart in a ranking peppered with dystopian classics and up-and- coming authors
Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien Author; Illustrator Imprint
3 Toy Story 4: My Busy Book - Phidal 4 Supertato Carnival...
Kes Gray; Jim Field Hodder Children’s 1444937336 Craig Smith; Katz Cowley Scholastic
Sue Hendra; Paul Linnet S&S Children’s Jane Chisholm & Louie Stowell Usborne Julia Donaldson; Lydia Monks Macmillan Liz Pichon Scholastic Daynes; Tremblay Usborne Rod Campbell Macmillan
12 The Girl, the Bear... Magic Shoes Julia Donaldson; Lydia Monks Macmillan Judith Kerr HarperCollins Eric Carle Puffin
Schrey & Marx; Paul Moran Michael O’Mara
1407195575 2764348833 1471171727
ISBN (+978) ASP Volume £4.56 £4.36 £6.05 £4.43
1409523352 £5.80 1509862665 £4.22 1407174808 1409582144 0230747722
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407170763 £4.61 Julia Donaldson; Lydia Monks Macmillan
£8.33 £6.75 £4.41
1509894758 £3.98 1447275985 £4.34 0007215997 0241003008 1782439073
Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 1407184630 £4.40 Eric Hill Warne Dawn McMillan; Ross Kinnaird Scholastic Fiona Watt; Rachel Wells Usborne
0723263661 20 Peppa Pig: Peppa in Space - Ladybird
Children’s & YA Fiction Title
1 The World’s Worst Teachers
1407196015 £4.49 1474950473 0241371657
£4.82 £5.03 £3.32
£4.36
£4.00 £4.60
3,694 3,568 3,177 2,718 2,698 2,246 2,164 1,906 1,835 1,818 1,816 1,763 1,749 1,741 1,735 1,664 1,642 1,638 1,635 1,626
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or the year to date, the Fiction Heatseekers chart continues to be topped by a
Author; Illustrator Imprint David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins
2 Captain Marvel: Higher Further.. - Centum 3 Diary of an Awesome Friendly... Jeff Kinney Puffin 4 Bad Dad Fing
5
6 Harry Potter and the... Stone 7 The World’s Worst Teachers 8 Head Kid
9 The Midnight Gang 11 The Getaway 12 The World’s Worst Children 14 Gangsta Granny
David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins J K Rowling Bloomsbury David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins
10 The Boy At the Back of the Class Onjali Q Rauf Orion Children’s Jeff Kinney Puffin
David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins
13 Harry Potter and the Chamber... J K Rowling Bloomsbury David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins
15 Biscuits, Bands and... Big Plans Liz Pichon Scholastic Holly Jackson Electric Monkey Sita Brahmachari Orion Children’s
16 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 17 Where the River Runs Gold
18 Disney Princess: The Odd Sisters - Igloo 19 Harry Potter and the... Azkaban J K Rowling Bloomsbury David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins
20 Grandpa’s Great Escape 24 26th July 2019
ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 0008305789 £7.28 1913265458 0241405604
£3.99 £8.00
0008164669 £4.44 0008342579 £7.66 1408855652 0008363994
£5.26 £10.44
David Baddiel; Steven Lenton HarperCollins 0008200565 £4.54 David Walliams; Tony Ross HarperCollins
0008164621 £4.24 1510105010 0141385259
0008197032 £8.55 1408855669
£4.89
0007371464 £4.42 1407189307 1405293181 1510105416 1788107525 1408855676
0008183424 £4.49
£4.50 £5.68 £5.20 £3.72 £4.92
£5.41 £4.74
36,912 15,376 4,389 3,659 3,490 3,464 3,152 3,071 2,816 2,617 2,418 2,256 2,247 2,206 2,205 2,077 1,987 1,968 1,936 1,856
now-familiar face: George Orwell and his book Nineteen Eighty- four, written over 70 years ago but probably as relevant now as ever. The Heatseekers chart ranks the fiction titles by authors who have never charted in the Top 50 in the Nielsen BookScan era, and though it may seem unthinkable that Orwell is among their number, many authors of classic works do find themselves in a similar position. For example, Leo Tolstoy only charted in the Top 50 when the BBC adapted War and Peace in 2016. Alongside Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four and Animal Farm, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is in 16th place for the half-year. I just can’t think why a book about a group of squabbling public schoolboys tearing apart their society would be relevant to book buyers in 2019... Nineteen Eighty-four, of
course, had its big moment back in 2017, when the sitting US presi- dent’s inauguration was enough to propel it to the top of the US book charts. In the UK, it jumped 228% in volume in the fortnight after the ceremony. Despite peaking at 3,422 copies sold in the first week of February, that
was only enough to shunt it into 54th place—though Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here, the 1930s novel that eerily mirrors the 2016 presidential election, did manage a Top 50 place in that same week. However, Nineteen Eighty-four
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