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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


The Official UK Top 50 Hamnet holds off Shuggie to keep crown


Title 1  £26.6m  TCM value


WEEK ON WEEK –15.2%


Douglas Stuart failed to topple Maggie O’Farrell from the top spot, as the market returned to normal levels after a re-opening bonanza last week


Kiera O'Brien @kieraobrien


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aggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet garnered a third week atop the Official UK


Top 50 chart through Nielsen BookScan’s TCM, selling 16,482 copies. For the second week of open bookshops in England and Wales, the Women’s Prize winner and Waterstones Book of the Year 2020 once again swiped the Independent Bookseller top spot. Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize winner Shuggie Bain joined Hamnet at the top for a second week running, scoring the overall (and Mass-Market Fiction) number two spot for its first full week of paperback sales—though it missed out on the overall top spot by fewer than 500 copies. Shuggie Bain seems to have shrugged off a common curse


26 30th April 2021 Hamnet


2 Shuggie Bain 3 The Silent Wife


4 The Midnight Library 5 Here and Now 6 The Sentinel


7 The Postscript Murders 8 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox... 9 Faceless


10 Pinch of Nom Quick & Easy 11 The Dinner Guest 12 Grown Ups


13 The Power of Geography 14 The Thursday Murder Club 15 The End of Her


16 Where the Crawdads Sing 17 The Wedding Dress 18 Private Moscow


Author; Illustrator Imprint


Maggie O’Farrell Tinder Press Douglas Stuart Picador Karin Slaughter HarperCollins Matt Haig Canongate


ISBN


1472223821 1529019292 0008303488 1786892737


Santa Montefiore Simon & Schuster 1471169694 Lee & Andrew Child Corgi Elly Griffiths Quercus


0552177429 1787477650


Charlie Mackesy Ebury 1529105100 Martina Cole Headline Featherstone & Allinson Bluebird B P Walter One More,,, Marian Keyes Penguin


0755374106


Tim Marshall Elliott & Thom... Richard Osman Viking Shari Lapena Corgi Delia Owens Corsair


19 The Official Highway Code - TSO 20 Klara and the Sun 21 The Darkest Evening 22 Legacy of War


23 Miss Benson’s Beetle 24 Black Country Orphan 25 American Dirt


26 Good Vibes, Good Life


TCM total 76,857 34,197 24,378 96,714 21,326


111,863 17,912


1,078,475 32,616


1529034981 264,189 0008446086 1405918787 1783965373 0241425442 0552177030 1472154668


19,773 41,859 5,512


640,463 30,410


Danielle Steel Pan 1509878086 J Patterson & A Hamdy Arrow


Kazuo Ishiguro Faber & Faber


343,085 28,276


1787464438 32,398 0115533426 0571364879


Ann Cleeves Pan 1509889556 W Smith & D Churchill Bonnier Zaffre 1838772246 Rachel Joyce Black Swan


27 Dog Man 10: Mothering Heights Dav Pilkey 28 Captain Tom’s Life Lessons 29 Still Life


30 What the Ladybird... Seaside 31 The Lies You Told 32 A Gambling Man


34 The Coast-to-Coast Murders 35 The Goodbye Man


Annie Murray Pan 1529011807 Jeanine Cummins Tinder Press Vex King Hay House Scholastic


Captain Tom Moore Michael Joseph Val McDermid Sphere


Wildfire David Baldacci Macmillan


33 Working Hard, Hardly Working Grace Beverley Hutchinson James Patterson Arrow


Jeffery Deaver HarperCollins


36 Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome... Jeff Kinney Puffin Jenny Colgan Sphere


37 Five Hundred Miles from You 38 Letters to Camondo 39 Hidden in Plain Sight 40 Healing Is the New High 41 Tap to Tidy


42 Turn a Blind Eye Liar


43 


44 They Both Die at the End 45 The Madness of Grief 46 The Beekeeper of Aleppo 47 Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd 48 Wake Up


49 Just Like You 50 My Kind of Happy


Vex King Hay House Stacey Solomon Ebury Jeffrey Archer Macmillan Lesley Pearse Penguin


Adam Silvera S&S Children’s Reverend Richard Coles W&N Christy Lefteri Manilla Jonas Jonasson Harpervia Piers Morgan HarperCollins Nick Hornby Penguin


1472261403 1788171823 1338680454 0241504017 0751576948


1472252791 1529061772 1786332851 1787465428 0008303822 0241530399 0751572025


0552779487


895,335 31,531 37,209 8,828


16,998 7,596


27,833


176,067 27,250 16,464 27,788


J Donaldson; L Monks Macmillan... 1529023152 18,945 Harriet Tyce


15,173 5,152


Edmund de Waal Chatto & Windus 1784744311 Jeffrey Archer Pan


28,551 36,615 21,039 3,336


1509851348 1788174770 1529109498 1509851362 1405944595 1471166204


26,523 17,384 37,918 17,596 32,055 56,184


1474619622 15,017 1838770013 0008407582 0008392611 0241983256


Cathy Bramley Orion 1409186793 23,011


Week ending 24th April 2021. Key New Up Same Down Unless otherwise stated, charts use data from Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market, representing print book sales through around 6,500 retailers. Any title discounted by more than 74.5% is ineligible for inclusion.


220,277 10,559 25,874 4,531


25,169 6,906


Volume 16,482 16,029 14,542 12,699 12,524 11,752 9,830 8,310 7,246 5,948 5,589 5,569 5,409 5,392 5,216 4,804 4,406 4,145 4,123 4,104 4,033 3,730 3,715 3,622 3,493 3,416 3,385 3,370 3,349 3,307 3,285 3,259 3,141 3,138 3,116 3,099 2,987 2,980 2,931 2,902 2,851 2,822 2,781 2,761 2,756 2,678 2,570 2,554 2,522 2,403


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