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07 Top sellers
Editor’s Choice
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promises a nationwide marketing and publicity campaign.
Commercial/literary
Dolly Alderton Ghosts Fig Tree, 22nd, £8.99, 9780241988688
This first novel from the author of the bestselling memoir Everything I Know About Love follows food writer Nina, who turns to dating apps for the first time. When she meets Max, he seems perfect—but then he abruptly disappears from her life. “A sharp- eyed début... Tests the boundaries of what used to be called chick-lit,” said the Guardian. Snortingly funny, as well as genuinely insightful in its exploration of Nina’s relationships with friends and family, this sold 24,500 hardbacks in three weeks, says Penguin.
Literary/historical
Kiran Millwood Hargrave The Mercies Picador, 8th, £8.99, 9781529075076
Inspired by real events, and deliciously immersive and chilling, this tells of how a sudden violent storm wipes out the men of the remote Norwegian island of Vardø in 1617, and how the widows and daughters they leave behind become the victims of a witch-hunt. “This is a powerful story that gathers ever more momen- tum as it moves towards its conclusion,” said the Sunday Times. This has sold more than 12,000 copies through the UK TCM, and hit fifth in the Sunday Times bestseller list, says Pan. “Dark, dramatic and full of danger,” said the Mail.
David Baldacci Daylight Pan, 8th, £8.99, 9781509874606 FBI special agent Atlee Pine is on the trail of her sister, who was abducted at the age of six. All three of Baldacci’s 2020 paper- backs went to number one, says Pan.
Jonathan Coe Mr Wilder and Me Viking, 1st, £8.99, 9780241989715 A young woman meets Billy Wilder, the Hollywood director of “Some Like it Hot” and “Sunset Boulevard”, during the sweltering summer of 1976, changing her life for good. “Effortlessly plea- surable and deceptively simple,” said the Times.
John Grisham A Time for Mercy Hodder Paperbacks, 8th, £8.99, 9781529342369 Jake Brigance, the hero of Grisham’s first book, A Time to Kill, is defending a boy who killed the man who was abusing his mother—and who was also a cop.
Robert Harris V2 Arrow, 8th, £8.99, 9781787460980 A “widespread” marketing and publicity campaign is planned for Harris’ latest thriller, set as V2 ballistic rockets are launched against London in the waning months of the Second World War. Harris’ last book, The Second Sleep, was a number one bestseller in hardback.
Editor’s Choice
Editor’s Choice
Science fiction
N K Jemisin The City We Became Orbit, 22nd, £8.99, 9780356512686
This first in a new series from the excellent N K Jemisin sees New York—a city which has grown large and mighty enough to take on anthropomorphic form, in the shape of a handful of diverse characters—under attack from a Lovecraftian horror. These “souls” of New York face off against the “beast from the deeps”; it’s tons of fun, and as clever as you would expect from the first author to win three consecutive Hugo Best Novel awards for science fiction and fantasy. Jemisin’s The Broken Kingdoms is also reissued this month.
Popular science
Sarah Stewart Johnson The Sirens of Mars Penguin Books, 1st, £9.99, 9780141981581
With many eyes currently on the heavens, as Nasa’s rover Perseverance explores Mars, this look at our centuries-old obsession with the Red Planet couldn’t be more timely. Stewart Johnson is a planetary scientist who runs her own research labs in Georgetown. Here she interweaves her personal journey as a scientist with the stories of others who have scoured Mars for signs of life, tracing humanity’s history with the planet back over the centu- ries. “Elegantly written and boundlessly entertaining,” said the Sunday Telegraph.
Elena Ferrante The Lying Life of Adults Europa Editions, 8th, £8.99, 9781787703124 The bestselling and pseud- onymous Italian author tells of Giovanna, a girl on the edge of adolescence in Naples. “The most intense writing about the experiences and interior life of a girl on the cusp of adulthood that I have ever read,” said the FT. “An astonishing, deeply moving tale,” said the Guardian. Europa prom- ises a “major” promotional campaign, and Lying Life... has also been selected as a “big hitter” on BBC2 “Between the Covers”, which will air in May.
Stephen Fry Troy Michael Joseph, 8th, £9.99, 9781405944465 After Mythos, which Penguin says has sold more than 910,000 copies, and Heroes (335,000- plus), Fry takes on the story of Troy. Penguin
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Victoria Hislop One August Night Headline Review, 1st, £8.99, 9781472278449 This sequel to Hislop’s bestselling The Island opens in 1957, as the island of Spinalonga closes its leper colony, and a moment of violence has deadly consequences. “A dramatic story of love, betrayal and allegiances,” said Woman & Home.
Lynda La Plante Judas Horse Zaffre, 22nd, £8.99, 9781785769825 The second in La Plante’s Detective Jack Warr series sees him investigating when a mutilated body is discovered in a Cotswolds house. This year marks the 30th anniversary of “Prime Suspect”.
John Nichol Lancaster S&S Adult Non-Fiction, 22nd, £9.99, 9781471180491 A tribute to the Lancaster Bomber, by the author of the bestselling Spitfire.
James Patterson Deadly Cross Arrow, 22nd, £8.99, 9781787461895
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