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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


to average spring levels. Perhaps the British public was too busy shivering in pub gardens for the first time since December to crack on with its lockdown reading. At 3.1 million books sold for £26.6m, though, it was the biggest Week 16 since 2011 in volume terms and


the most lucrative since 2008 in value terms, and 4.8% up in value on the same week in 2019. This is also coupled with a fairly low- selling bestseller chart—Hamnet last week became the second title to claim the number one spot with fewer than 20,000 copies sold since the pandemic began (in weeks Nielsen was able to provide sales figures), following on from Lee and Andrew Child’s lockdown-era The Sentinel in the


second week of April. It appears that strength in depth is driving print growth, rather than a stand- out bestseller.


TCM actual selling price Last 52 Nielsen weeks


£10


Original Fiction Title


1 The Thursday Murder Club 2 Klara and the Sun 3 Legacy of War 4 A Gambling Man 5 Turn a Blind Eye 6 Missing Pieces


7 The Dream Weavers 8 Judas Horse


9 The Best Things 10 The Sanatorium 11 The Lamplighters 12 First Person Singular 13 A Court of Silver Flames 14 House of Earth and Blood 15 Other Women


16 The Mermaid of Black Conch


18 X of Swords 19 Win


Author


Imprint Richard Osman Viking Kazuo Ishiguro Faber & Faber


ISBN (+978) 0241425442 0571364879


Zaffre Headline


Sarah Pearse Bantam Emma Stonex Picador


Haruki Murakami Harvill Secker Sarah J Maas Bloomsbury Sarah J Maas Bloomsbury Cathy Kelly Orion


Monique Roffey Peepal Tree


17 Death Note Black Edition, Vol. 1 Tsugumi Ohba Viz Jonathan Hickman et al Marvel Harlan Coben Century Peter Robinson Hodder...


20 Not Dark Yet


Mass-Market Fiction Title


1  Hamnet


2 Shuggie Bain 3 The Silent Wife


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


7 The Postscript Murders 8 Faceless


9 The Dinner Guest 10 Grown Ups


11 The End of Her £5


12 Where the Crawdads Sing 13 The Wedding Dress 14 Private Moscow


£0 £8.49  YEAR ON YEAR n/a%


15 The Darkest Evening 16 Miss Benson’s Beetle 17 Black Country Orphan 18 American Dirt 19 Still Life


20 The Lies You Told


1529061772 1509851362 0241418734 0008195861 1785769801 1472256218 1787633315 1529047318 1787302600 1526602312 1526622884 1409179269 1845234577 1421539645


ASP £9.42 £16.30


W Smith & D Churchill Bonnier Zaffre 1838772246 £11.16 David Baldacci Macmillan Jeffrey Archer Macmillan Tim Weaver Michael Joseph Barbara Erskine HarperCollins Lynda La Plante Mel Giedroyc


£11.26 £10.72 £6.71


£11.65 £8.50 £8.73 £5.80


£14.11 £15.34 £13.36 £7.51 £6.14 £9.26 £9.89


1302927172 £36.11 1529123845 1529343076


£10.81 £12.12


Volume 5,392 4,104 3,730 3,259 2,822 2,091 1,743 1,447 1,381 1,355 1,292 1,191 1,063 1,031 976 895 802 782 773 720


Author


Imprint


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


ISBN (+978) 1472223821 1529019292 0008303488 1786892737


Santa Montefiore Simon & Schuster 1471169694 Lee & Andrew Child Corgi Elly Griffiths Quercus Martina Cole Headline B P Walter One More... Marian Keyes Penguin Shari Lapena Corgi Delia Owens Corsair


Danielle Steel Pan 1509878086 J Patterson & A Hamdy Arrow


1787464438


Ann Cleeves Pan 1509889556 Rachel Joyce Black Swan


Annie Murray Pan 1529011807 Jeanine Cummins Tinder Press Val McDermid Sphere Harriet Tyce


Wildfire 0552779487


1472261403 0751576948 1472252791


0552177429 1787477650 0755374106 0008446086 1405918787 0552177030 1472154668


ASP


£6.95 £5.89 £4.29 £5.53 £4.56 £4.92 £4.62 £6.26 £5.06 £4.63 £6.08 £4.81 £4.70 £5.44 £6.29 £4.37 £5.76 £5.23 £4.96 £4.33


Volume 16,482 16,029 14,542 12,699 12,524 11,752 9,830 7,246 5,589 5,569 5,216 4,804 4,406 4,145 4,033 3,715 3,622 3,493 3,349 3,285


Heatseekers Fiction


The Heatseekers charts are compiled using titles by authors who have not appeared in The Official UK Top 50 since Nielsen BookScan records began. As such, they reveal books that are selling well, but not well enough to make the


overall list in a seven-day period. For more Heatseekers charts, visit thebookseller.com.


28 30th April 2021


Title


1 Until Next Weekend 2 Exciting Times 3 The Wild Girls 4 The Best Things


5 The Never-Ending Summer 6 The Lamplighters


7 A Postcard from Paris 8 The Railway Girls in Love 9 A Sister’s War


Author


Imprint


Rachel Marks Penguin Naoise Dolan W&N


Headline


Emma Kennedy Arrow Emma Stonex Picador Alex Brown HarperCollins Maisie Thomas Arrow Molly Green Avon


10 The Girl with the Louding Voice Abi Daré Sceptre


ISBN (+978) 1405940092 1474613460


Phoebe Morgan HQ 0008406967 Mel Giedroyc


1472256218 1787463295 1529047318 0008421984 1787463981 0008332501 1529359275


ASP


£3.52 £7.32 £4.12 £8.73 £4.56


£14.11 £3.16 £4.83 £4.51 £5.59


Volume 1,439 1,432 1,401 1,381 1,312 1,292 1,250 1,073 977 934


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