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The Bestseller Charts Analysis


and the Small Publishers charts as well as 11th in the Independent Retail Top 20. In other words, week-on-week sales of Kairos increased by a phenomenal 442% with the help of independent booksellers. But it’s not uncommon for winners of the prize to experience sales whiplash. The week before the announce- ment of the 2023 winner, Time Shelter by Georgi


 HarperCollins


Penguin


Pan Macmillan Bloomsbury Hodder


Little, Brown Cornerstone


Simon & Schuster Transworld Ebury


 Title


1 Frog’s Day Out


2 My Big Rainbow Book of... 3 Bluey: Sleepytime  


  


4 Bluey: What Games... Play? 5 The Pandas Who Promised    


10Bluey: My Dad is Awesome   


14Bluey: Where’s Bluey? 15Dad’s Bum is So Smelly!  


17Dear Zoo   


£1.97m £1.95m £1.09m £685k £683k £673k £633k £456k £452k £435k


Gospodinov (translated by Angela Rodel) sold 250 copies. The week aſter, it sold 1,338. Similarly, in the week before Tombs of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell) won the 2022 prize, it sold 70 copies only to sell 684 the following week. In both cases, the aſterglow lasted about 30 weeks, so there’s still plent of time for Kairos to keep ticking through the tills.


Sales cracked £9m last year, setting a new high for the past two decades


  W Author; Illustrator Imprint


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Macmillan - - -


Igloo Rachel Bright; Jim Field


6 Sticker Dolly Dressing... KingdomFiona Watt; Antonia Miller Eric Carle -


7 The Very Hungry Caterpillar 8 Daddy Pig’s Surprise 9 My Daddy and Me 


Roger Hargreaves -


11555 Sticker Fun: Animals... Book Susan Mayes; Dan Crisp 12The Baddies 13Bluey: Perfect  


16555 Sticker Fun: Vehicles... Book Susan Mayes; Dan Crisp Rod Campbell


18Bumper Animal Colouring Book - 19Disneyland Parks Colouring Book- -


20Disney Classics Colouring


 Title


1 Astrochimp


2 The Scarlet Shedder 3 Powerful 4 Powerless 


   


5 Diper Överlöde   


6 A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 7 Book of Everything 8 I Love Paris!   


11No Brainer  


12Bunny Bonanza! 13Big Shot  


Ladybird Ladybird Orchard Usborne Puffin


Ladybird Farshore Ladybird


Ladybird Ladybird


ISBN (+978) ASP Volume 1035006885 £5.04 1803681504 £1.14 0241663653 £4.39 0241669754 £4.54 1408356104 £5.52 1805072454 £4.87 0241003008 £4.51 0241659519 £4.59 1405297813 £3.16 0241550670 £4.05


Imagine That 1787008502 £2.51


Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler Alison Green 0702325069 £4.94 - -


Dawn McMillan; Ross Kinnaird Scholastic


0241574249 £5.16 0241558577 £4.79 0702333675 £4.38


Imagine That 1789580440 £2.55 Macmillan Igloo


Autumn Autumn


1529074932 £4.68 1786701435 £2.00 1838523657 £5.27 1839031298 £4.66


3,976 3,020 2,503 2,324 2,140 2,077 1,997 1,959 1,931 1,873 1,643 1,616 1,593 1,570 1,405 1,372 1,352 1,335 1,324 1,257


e often say that history has a habit of repeating itself, but this is not so


for World & General History which reached historic new heights last year. The subcategory’s value through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market has experienced major fluctuations over the past two decades, yo-yoing up and down to create a somewhat neurotic-looking graph that peaks in 2023. Like the gold rushes of


centuries past, the subcategory is boom and bust. It might jump ahead by 65% one year, as it did in 2018, only to slide back 5% and then 35% in the years following. Now, in this example, it would be fair to assume that Covid-19 had something to do with the precipi- tous fall of 2020. However, the subcategory performed reason- ably well that year. At £4.8m, the result was less than £1m off its 20-year average. Prior to 2023, a good year


Author; Illustrator


Lauren Roberts Lauren Roberts Jeff Kinney


Holly Jackson Liz Pichon


Rachel Renée Russell


9 Skandar and the Chaos Trials A F Steadman 10Twenty Thousand Fleas... Sea Dav Pilkey Jeff Kinney Jamie Smart Jeff Kinney


14The Reappearance of Rachel... Holly Jackson Jamie Smart


15Bunny vs Monkey    


17Harry Potter and the... Stone 18Honk If You See It! 19The Deep End 


20If Only I Had Told Her 30 31st May 2024 Imprint Scholastic ISBN (+978) ASP Volume


David Walliams; Adam Stower HarperCollins 0008587574 £7.70 10,017 Dav Pilkey


1338896435 £9.08


Simon & Schuster 1398535732 £5.59 Simon & Schuster 1398529489 £5.86 Puffin


0241583104 £5.37


Electric Monkey 1405293181 £6.18 Scholastic


0702338014 £7.29


Simon & Schuster 1471196850 £5.04 Simon & Schuster 1398502956 £9.12 Scholastic Puffin


0702330025 £6.58 0241583135 £10.37


David Fickling 1788453066 £9.48 Puffin


0241396988 £5.17


16Alex vs Axel: The Impossible... Sam Copeland; Dotty Sutton Puffin J K Rowling Jamie Smart Jeff Kinney


Laura Nowlin Bloomsbury


Electric Monkey 0008582197 £9.85 David Fickling 1788451772 £7.21 0241573136 £6.23 1408855652 £5.81


David Fickling 1788453134 £8.44 Puffin


0241396957 £5.08 Sourcebooks Fire 1728276229 £6.13


4,440 3,226 2,868 2,394 2,184 2,053 2,045 2,006 1,972 1,731 1,641 1,606 1,497 1,495 1,465 1,441 1,381 1,350 1,290


cashed in around £7.5m, but last year witnessed a new record £9.2m. Blockbuster historian Mary Beard’s Emperor of Rome reigned in pole position after shifting 36,020 copies. Fellow professor Peter Frankopan trailed in second with his environmental


take on world history in The Earth Transformed and podcasters Tom Holland (not that Tom Holland) and Dominic Sandbrook held third with their goldmine of historical trivia The Rest is History. Naturally, Profile and Bloomsbury came out on top for the year after more than doubling their annual results for 2022. Collectively, the top trio sold


nearly 88,000 copies, but that wasn’t actually a huge improve- ment on the previous year and,


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