27th June 2025
Charts
Everybody needs good Neighbours: Claire Douglas finds the perfect blend
A summer slump sees total sales plummet despite big numbers for the top new releases
I Week ending 21st June 2025
n one of the quietest weeks of the year so far, Claire Douglas’ The New Neighbours (Penguin) has moved straight into the
number one slot of the Official UK Top 50, according to the latest data from NielsenIQ BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM). With sales of 14,575 copies,
Douglas’ newest has improved on the first week performance of 2024’s The Wrong Sister by 32.7%, and this is the first time she has hit number one at the first time of asking. In the summer of 2024, The Wrong Sister’s sales increased in its second week to 19,644 copies
and took the TCM number one spot for a fortnight – and the Mass- Market Fiction (MMF) number one for a month – before going on to sell 258,105 copies by the end of the year. Douglas pushes Richard Osman’s
We Solve Murders from pole position to second place in the TCM with sales of 13,182 books. That is a drop of 39.3% on the previous seven days, an almost identical percentage change compared with 2024’s post- Father’s Day performance for The Last Devil to Die, but from a higher base, meaning that for a second consecutive week,
Osman has beaten his past year’s performance. In a relatively quiet week for the paperback charts, the only other story of note is Yael van der Wouden’s 2025 Women’s Prize winner The Safekeep. Debuting in 24th place in its first week on sale, it has risen 17 places to take seventh in the TCM Top 50 – a volume leap of 29.6% that is likely thanks in part to independ- ent bookshops. While NielsenIQ does not provide sales data by retail channel, The Safekeep paperback debuted in third place on the indie chart, just in time to capitalise on extra Indie Bookshop Week footfall. In what is perhaps another victory for indie bookshops, this week sees a shuffling of titles in the Paperback Non-Fiction (PBNF) chart as Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton bounces into first place with 5,639 copies. That is still a decline on the previous week of 17.9%, but not as much of a contraction as that faced by last week’s adaptation-boosted PBNF
Claire Douglas top the charts with her lastest novel, The New Neighbours
The Official 3 Data
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40 Key
No move New entry Climbing Re-entry Falling
The New Neighbours Claire Douglas Penguin, 9781405957656
We Solve Murders Richard Osman
Penguin, 9780241997482
Heir of Storms Lauryn Hamilton Murray Penguin, 9780241778586
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The Midnight Feast Lucy Foley HarperCollins, 9780008385088
The Greatest Story Ever Told Bear Grylls John Murray, 9781399820141
The Hotel Avocado Bob Mortimer Gallery, 9781398529656
The Safekeep Yael van der Wouden Penguin, 9780241999776
Intermezzo Sally Rooney Faber, 9780571365487
Long Island Colm Tóibín Picador, 9781035029464
Midnight and Blue Ian Rankin Orion, 9781398709454
UNITS
Guilty Martina Cole Headline, 9781472249548
Here One Moment Liane Moriarty Penguin, 9781405942287
The Life Impossible Matt Haig Canongate, 9781838855611
The Housemaid Freida McFadden Little, Brown, 9781408728512
The Tenant Freida McFadden Poisoned Pen Press, 9781464228629
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton Canongate, 9781837260867
Cozy Corner Coco Wyo
Penguin, 9780241764220
UNITS
House of Flame and Shadow Sarah J Maas Bloomsbury, 9781526650344
In Too Deep Lee and Andrew Child
Penguin (Transworld), 9781804993675
Butter Asako Yuzuki, Polly Barton (trans) Fourth Estate, 9780008511715
Charts
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