Top 50 The Pan Mac 8
Publisher Top 20* Publisher
3 HarperCollins 4 Pan Macmillan
Independent Alliance*
6 Bloomsbury 7 OUP*
8 Bonnier 9 DK*
10 Simon & Schuster 11 Scholastic 12 Usborne 13 CGP
14 Faber
15 Pearson* 16 John Wiley 17 Createspace 18 Lonely Planet 19 Taylor & Francis 20 Egmont 21 Walker
Value Growth
1 Penguin Random House* £135,646,607 7.0% 2 Hachette*
£81,697,332 –4.1%
£56,245,601 5.0% £40,691,088 35.8% £28,349,975 9.9% £21,630,380
–12.1%
£13,888,805 –5.8% £13,310,343 21.1% £11,663,332
5.1%
£11,646,102 –5.9% £11,250,432
0.2% 26.4%
£10,252,424 10.2% £10,072,480
£9,294,741 36.6% £8,576,976 –7.4% £7,288,035
–4.0%
£6,481,560 –22.2% £5,892,621 –5.0% £5,782,481 6.6% £5,014,106 –17.8% £4,786,920
4.2%
*DK titles stripped out from PRH. Hachette includes Short Books. Indie Alliance excludes Short Books, NYRB and Daunt Books. OUP includes Nelson Thornes. Pearson combines Heinemann and Professional groups.
PAN MACMILLAN’S SARA LLOYD AND ANTHONY
FORBES WATSON TOAST THEIR RECENT SUCCESS
with the Michael Joseph-published Mrs Hinch’s Hinch Yourself Happy and Jojo Moyes’ Still Me PRH’s bestsellers by volume. The entire group’s 2018 bestseller, Michelle Obama’s Becoming, added £2.2m to the cause (only Mrs Hinch eclipsed it this year in value terms). Transworld was down 8.1%, but that was the differential between Lee Child’s performance, as it had an “extra” Child in the first half of 2018, in the form of a Jack Reacher short story collection. PRH Children’s sales slipped 3.5% to just under £22m, following a 2018 when its kids’ sales declined 5.8%,
dropping under a 15% market share for the first time. Yet it’s been a very good 2019 for Jeff Kinney, whose sales rose 54% to £3.2m. It has not been a stellar half year for Hachete, with a 4.1% slide, but it, and particularly Litle, Brown (–18.5% to £15.9m), suffers in comparison to 2018, when it had the monster first-half smash, Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury. The group’s two other big divisions had dips—Hodder down 4.8% to £16.2m, and Orion slipping 8.8% to £12.4m—and there simply have not been many hits overall: not one Hachete title has shiſted over £1m through the TCM, and only five of the top 50 books by volume this year have come from the group (compared
19
PRH titles feature in the 2019 Top 50
36.6%
Year-on-year growth for Faber—the best in the Publisher Top 20
to 19 for PRH and eight for both HC and Pan Mac). Of those five, one was a £1 World Book Day title and another—Hachete’s bestseller of 2019 in volume and value terms, Michael Mosley’s The Fast 800—was issued by a publisher (Short Books) that Hachete acquired two months ago.
Child’s play
HC continued its recent run of David Walliams/Tony Ross and Gail Honeyman- boosted excellent form, with a market-beating jump of 5%, to £56.2m. Walliams accounted for a heſty 13% of HC’s overall total, and 41% of HC Children’s Books’ TCM total. HCCB shiſted £18.2m this half-year, one third of HC’s TCM haul; compare that to
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J K Rowling £4,615,782
10.5%
Aided in part by Bloomsbury’s ongoing programme of keeping its Harry Potter titles up to date, 84% of J K Rowling’s £4.6m in sales have come from the boy wizard fran- chise. Alter ego Robert Galbraith contributed £617,000 to the total.
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Jeff Kinney £3,284,782
54.1%
The 54% jump for Jeff Kinney is down to the fact that he usually has no new title launching in the spring. This year he had two—one of which was for World Book Day—both centred around Rowley Jefferson, Wimpy Kid Greg Heffley’s best pal.
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Lee Child £2,925,495
9.2%
Lee Child’s 9% drop is misleading as Transworld published a Jack Reacher story collection in early 2018 as well as the usual mass-market paperback. At 240,000 units sold, this year’s MMPB, Past Tense, is actually 3% up on 2018’s The Midnight Line.
07
Fiona Watt £2,677,422
12.1%
An impressive 50 of Usborne editorial director/ superstar author Fiona Watt’s (and illustrator Rachel Wells’) titles feature in the first-half TCM 5,000, led by That’s Not My Unicorn and the Easter-boosted That’s Not My Chick.
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Mrs Hinch £2,389,705
N/A
After Pinch of Nom, Intagrammer Mrs Hinch’s cleaning tome, Hinch Yourself Happy, has been the 2019 breakout, notch- ing two overall UK number ones and shifting 160,000 units in its first week—the year’s second best seven- day haul.
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Michelle Obama £2,185,104
N/A
Michelle Obama’s Becoming was 2018’s top- earning book by almost £3m (it earned £7.8m in two months) and contin- ued that into 2019, shifting nearly £2.2m. At £15.83, Obama has the highest average selling price of any author in the top 20.
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