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two weeks, which held steady at around £27m. Perhaps this increase is the direct result of a flood of new releases hiting the shelves. Combined sales of the top 50 books tallied 329,661 units—an 11% increase on the previous week (298,331 copies). King’s collection
of 12 stories, You Like it Darker, led the new releases in second position behind Osman and first in Original Fiction. He was joined in the top 10 by writerly heavy- weights David Walliams, David Mitchell, Colm Tóibín and Jeffrey Archer, along with newcomer Megan Scot.
Scot knocked it out of the park with her romantasy début The Temptation of Magic, which is the first in the Empyreal trilogy. Note, this is not to be confused with Rebecca Yarros’ romantasy Empyrean series, the two books of which hit 19th and 98th place last week. (For the word nerds out there, “empyrean”, which means highest heaven, is derived from
“empyreal”, meaning the sky or heavens.) Scot entered at fiſth, elevated by FairyLoot and their May Young Adult subscription box. The May romantasy pick, which is a relatively recent
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ulia Quinn had a strong week in both print and digital formats, claiming first and second place in the Bookstat E-Book ranking and fourth in
the Publisher E-Book ranking with Romancing Mr Bridgerton and Daphne’s Story. Last week, all three steamy seasons of “Bridgerton” hit Netflix’s top 10 UK TV shows and it seems viewers are diving straight under the covers—book covers, obviously. Robinne Lee’s The Idea of You, which has also been
adapted for the small screen, continued to enjoy a boost from the film currently streaming on Amazon Prime, though it dropped from sixth to eighth place in the Publisher E-Book ranking last week. Crime and SFF continued to compete for readers’
affection against romance in the e-book charts love triangle. Crime claimed 11 spots in the Bookstat Top 20, while SFF nabbed five spots in the Publisher E-Book Top 20. Meanwhile, Jill Mansell’s 2008 novel Open House resurfaced in 15th on the Bookstat charts alongside a handful of romance novels. The latest literary release from Colm Tóibín broke
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Title
2 Daphne’s Story 3 His and Hers 4 Go as a River 5 Never
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Romancing Mr Bridgerton
6 Every Move You Make 7 The Wrong Daughter Panic
9 The Secret Beach 10Wild Fire
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Julia Quinn Julia Quinn Alice Feeney Shelley Read Ken Follett C L Taylor
Dandy Smith L J Ross
Veronica Henry Ann Cleeves
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into the Bookstat chart at 12th. Long Island is the long-awaited sequel to his prize-winning Brooklyn.
Clarification Hachette has stated that Romancing Mr Bridgerton sold 4,210 copies and The Secret Beach sold 4,972.
JULIA QUINN:
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Imprint
Little, Brown Avon HQ
Transworld Pan
Avon Embla
Dark Skies Orion
Macmillan
ISBN (+978) Volume 0748115716 0062424037 0008370954 1529905977 1529076950 0008601515 1471416170 1912310555 1398703179 1447278276
7,951 6,907 6,785 5,573 5,451 5,095 4,999 4,327 4,191 4,070
Data source Bookstat. Week ending 25th May 2024. 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.
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2 The Last Devil To Die 3 The Vanishing of Class 3B 4 Romancing Mr Bridgerton 5 None of This is True
His & Hers
6 A Court of Thorns and Roses 7 You Are Here 8 The Idea of You 9 The Dixon Rule 10Both of You
Author Alice Feeney
Richard Osman Jackie Kabler Julia Quinn Lisa Jewell
Sarah J Maas David Nicholls Robinne Lee Elle Kennedy Adele Parks
Imprint HQ
Viking
One More Chapter Piatkus
Penguin (Century) Bloomsbury Sceptre
Michael Joseph Piatkus HQ
Week ending 18th May 2024. Key New Up Same Down. Titles with a selling price below £2 are excluded. Participating publishers: PRH UK, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury & Joffe Books
ISBN (+978) 0008370954 0241992418 0008544546 0748115716 1804940228 1408857878 1444715477 1405950374 0349439518 0008395582
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