27th February 2026


14,959 Charts Fiction Original Fiction 1


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Heather Fawcett Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter Orbit, £22, 9780356525785 Fawcett takes sixth place in the Original Fiction Top 20 with Agnes Aubert‘s Mystical Cat Shelter – a slightly cosier approach to Romantasy, it has interested 3,194 readers in its first week. At first glance that is perhaps slightly disappointing for Fawcett – Emily Wilde‘s Compendium of Lost Tales sold 3,772 copies in its first week on sale in 2025 – but more than 1,300 copies sold in the three weeks before the official publication date, reducing the impact on publication.


3,194 TCM copies sold


 Half City


Kate Golden Arcadia, 9781529443684, £19.98


Dire Bound


Sable Sorensen Wayward TxF, 9781911751205, £19.45


Iron Flame


Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349437026, £24.34


Fourth Wing


Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349436999, £21.85


Onyx Storm


Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349437064, £23.22


6  Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat… H Fawcett Orbit, 9780356525785, £21.54 7  One Woman’s War Rosie Goodwin Zaffre, 9781804183083, £7.76 8  Of Blood and Fire Ryan Cahill 9  The Killing Time Elly Griffiths Quercus, 9781529433388, £17.68 10  Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë Wayward TxF, 9781911751106, £11.72 Penguin Classics, 9780141040356, £16.23 11  The Night Prince Lauren Palphreyman 12  A Cottage in the Country Katie Fforde Bloomsbury, 9781526690784, £10.16 13  The Faithful Dark Cate Baumer Hodderscape, 9781399751155, £21.97 14  The Barbecue at No.9 Jennie Godfrey Viking, 9780241743980, £10.96 3,194 2,904 Broken Binding Press, 9781836980001, £19.57 2,819 2,407 2,199 2,186 2,050 2,031 Hutch'son Heinemann, 9781529155013, £12.79 1,959 15  The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman 16  My Husband’s Wife Alice Feeney Macmillan, 9781035083008, £10.46 17  Departure(s) Julian Barnes Phoenix, 9781399624022, £9.98 Jonathan Cape, 9781787335721, £18.20 18  The Names Florence Knapp 19  Alchemised SenLinYu Michael Joseph, 9780241714331, £15.43 20  Half His Age Jennette McCurdy Fourth Estate, 9780008617691, £13.21 30 1,680 1,640 1,464 1,315 1,240 1,238 4,895 4,947 5,117 6,722 10,288 Mass-Market Fiction 1


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 Local Girl Missing


Claire Douglas Penguin, 9781405926393, £5.33


Dear Debbie 8,794


Freida McFadden Poisoned Pen Press, 9781464266485, £5.97


Don’t Let Him In


Lisa Jewell Penguin, 9781804940266, £6.44


The Housemaid


Freida McFadden Little, Brown, 9781408728512, £8.10


Wuthering Heights


Emily Brontë Penguin, 9780141439556, £7.34


6  Heated Rivalry Rachel Reid Zaffre, 9781785123382, £5.15 5 Carina Press, 9781335534637, £7.36 7  The Scene of the Crime Lynda La Plante 8  The Protest Rob Rinder 6,685 6,531 6 Penguin (Cornerstone), 9781804950548, £5.75 6,425 9  The Secrets of the Starlit Sea S Montefiore Orion, 9781398720077, £5.37 10  The Wild Rose Dilly Court 11  Wolf Hour Jo Nesbo HarperCollins, 9780008580957, £4.94 Vintage, 9781529931600, £5.72 12  The Mersey Queen Katie Flynn 5,849 5,428 5,193 Penguin (Cornerstone), 9781804953891, £4.98 5,182 13  The Housemaid’s Secret Freida McFadden Little, Brown, 9780349132600, £7.98 14  The Wasp Trap Mark Edwards Penguin, 9781405971485, £7.29 Poisoned Pen Press, 9781464228605, £3.61 HarperCollins, 9780008734244, £4.90 Poisoned Pen Press, 9781464223310, £6.03 Wordsworth, 9781853260018, £4.98 Moonflower, 9781916678019, £8.46 Picador, 9781035044573, £8.46 5,135 4,972 15  The Surrogate Mother Freida McFadden 16  Never Look Back Susan Lewis 8 4,841 4,642 17  The Housemaid Is Watching F McFadden 18  Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 19  Pagans James Alistair Henry 20  The Boy from the Sea Garrett Carr 9 3,961 3,939 10 3,918 3,829


Before the… T Kawaguchi, G Trousselot (trans) Picador, £8.38, 9781529029581


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Empire of Flame and Thorns M Blackwood Scarlett Press, £5.16, 9781398559790


The Final Vow MW Craven Constable, £6.58, 9781408717554


1,973 TCM copies sold 7 7,076 7,386 4 8,598 3 10,937 2


Absolute Batman: Vol 2 S Snyder et al DC Comics, £13.20, 9781799507512


Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy Canongate, £8.84, 9781837265923


A Dance of Lies Brittney Arena Bloomsbury Archer, £5.44, 9781526681447


The Faithful Dark Cate Baumer Hodderscape, £21.97, 9781399751155


Murder on Line One Jeremy Vine HarperCollins, £5.41, 9780008707095


Hardbacks of Rebecca Yarros’ Empyrean series re-entered the Original Fiction chart in positions three to five with combined sales of 14,959


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