2011 Exclusive
Despite a week-on-week volume fall, the market posted its largest Week 16 volume sales since 2011
Digital Bestseller Lists Cross-format success for Connelly Kiera O’Brien @kieraobrien M
week’s number one
MAGGIE O’FARRELL TOPS THE CHART WITH HAMNET
among Booker winners who win in hardback. In normal times, hardback winners struggle to fly off the shelves as effectively as paperback winners do, then by the time the paperback release comes around, the news furore has largely died down. Even Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, which went to number one prior to its Booker win and was into six-figure volume sales within days of its hardback
publication, didn’t claim the number one in paperback. The only winner of the prize
to chart in the overall top spot in paperback is Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies, in May 2013. That novel offset the Booker hardback curse by being the sequel to one of the biggest-selling winners in BookScan history, of course: Wolf Hall. Shuggie Bain, a mere 500 copies away from a historical top spot,
seems to have particularly struck a chord with the book-buying public, in an especially strong period for fiction. Aſter a blockbuster first week back for bookshops, in which volume rose 33% on the week before, the print market fell back Continues overleaf
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ichael Connelly’s Fair Warning shot straight into the Bookstat e-book number one for the week ending 24th April, as its
Kindle edition’s price was lowered to 99p. The Jack McEvoy series title has topped both the Original Fiction and Mass-Market Fiction charts in its print formats, and now has the e-book pole too. Eve Chase’s The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde
made its début in second place, with Jennifer L Armentrout’s fantasy title The Crown of Gilded Bones the second highest new entry, in fourth place. Jill Mansell’s An Offer You Can’t Refuse bounced into the top three. It was a strong week for fantasy titles, with Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere hitting ninth. New entries thundered into the Publisher E-Book Ranking for the week ending 17th April. Cara Hunter’s The Whole Truth settled for nothing but the number one spot, with Jodi Taylor’s Another Time, Another Place, the 12th title in the author’s Chronicles of St Mary’s series, débuting in second.
Bookstat E-Book Top 10 1
Title Fair Warning
2 The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde 3 An Offer You Can’t Refuse 4 The Crown of Gilded Bones 5 Still Me
6 The Venice Sketchbook 7 The Whispers
8 Feel Great Lose Weight 9 Neverwhere
10 The Beekeeper of Aleppo Author
TOPS THE PUBLISHER E-BOOK RANKING
CARA HUNTER
Only Lee & Andrew Child’s The Sentinel, in 10th, held on from the week before.
Clarification Hachette has stated that Fair Warning sold 13,933 copies; An Offer You Can’t Refuse 6,974; and Neverwhere 5,828.
Imprint
Michael Connelly Orion Eve Chase Penguin Jill Mansell Headline Jennifer L Armentrout Blue Box Press Jojo Moyes Penguin Rhys Bowen Lake Union Heidi Perks Cornerstone Rangan Chatterjee Penguin Neil Gaiman Headline Christy Lefteri Zaffre
ISBN (+978) Volume 1409199090 1405919340 1473691247
18,562 12,800 11,517
1952457258 10,124 1405924207 1542027120 1529124255 0241397831 0755322800 1838770013
9,980 9,767 8,996 8,810 8,095 7,966
Data source Bookstat. Week ending 24th April 2021. Bookstat generates its charts by tracking the movement of e-books, print books and audio titles on online retailers’ websites and calibrating against publisher-supplied data; the volume and value figures are estimates. For more information, contact
info@bookstat.com.
The Publisher E-Book Ranking 1
Title The Whole Truth
2 Another Time, Another Place 3 Other Women
4 The Dream Weavers 5 Legacy of War 6 Beyond
7 The Therapist 8 A Sister’s Shame 9 A Gambling Man 10 The Sentinel
Author Imprint
Cara Hunter Viking Adult Jodi Taylor Headline Cathy Kelly Orion
Barbara Erskine HarperCollins Wilbur Smith Zaffre Stephen Walker
William Collins
ISBN (+978) 0241985144 1472273192 1409179290 0008195885 1838772253 0008372521
B A Paris HQ 0008412029 Maggie Hartley Orion David Baldacci Macmillan Lee & Andrew Child Transworld
1841884790 1529061819 1473579033
List price £3.99 £5.99 £4.99 £9.99
£12.99 £9.99 £7.99 £2.99 £9.99 £4.99
Week ending 17th April 2021. Key New Up Same Down. Titles with a selling price below £2 are excluded, as are titles priced £4.50 or below with any print versions priced above £17.99. Participating publishers: PRH UK, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Simon & Schuster, Bonnier Zaffre, Canongate & Joffe Books.
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