IN BRIEF Top 10 United Kingdom


Bloggers-turned-bestsellers take two of the chart’s top five places, with a flurry of fiction making its mark, too— alongside David Walliams


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Tattooist makes it mark in paperback format


Heather Morris’ Holocaust-set romance The Tattooist of Auschwitz became a word-of-mouth hit in hardback and e-book over 2018, but its paperback has truly soared into the strato- sphere, with 443,813 copies sold this year alone, and 17 weeks in total notched up as the Mass-Market Fiction number one. The recent release of companion title Cilka’s Journey probably won’t hinder Morris’ global stardom, either.


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Walliams’ World grows larger by the year...


Walliams’ second 2019 title was released slightly later its predecessors in The World’s Worst Children trilogy, a month ahead of the summer holidays in late June. And it more than paid off, with The World’s Worst Teachers notching up the author’s highest first- week volume outside of the Christmas gift-buying period. With an extra book added to the comedian’s yearly schedule, the author is 31% up in volume terms for the year to date.


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Jojo’s trilogy continues to go-go with Still Me


Still Me, the final title in Jojo Moyes’ Me Before You trilogy, became her third title to go straight into the overall number one in February, selling 303,976 copies to date in paperback. The hardback has sold more than 100,000 copies since 2018, pushing the trilogy’s total sales to more than 2.4 million copies. Amazingly, the original million-copy- bestselling title never hit the top of the charts—though every book Moyes has released since has done.


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UK book buyers are feeling the Pinch


Slimming-recipe bloggers Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson’s blockbuster cookbook Pinch of Nom obliterated records when it stormed to the top of the charts upon its publication in March. With 210,506 copies sold in its first week on sale, it became the fastest- selling non-fiction book of all time: eat your heart out, Jamie, Michelle, Joe, etc. Seven months—and nine weeks at number one—later, plus a second number one for the authors in the form of June-released Pinch of Nom Food Planner, the original title has sold 965,238 copies up to October—but its sales could well have surpassed the one-million mark by the time you read this.


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Tony Ross’ first release of the year is the author- illustrator duo’s bestseller of 2019, and the current kids’ number one for the year, with over 420,000 units sold since February.


6 Kay phenomenon continues


Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt, released in spring 2018, has barely relinquished the Paperback Non-fiction number one since. Its strong form carried into 2019, with 327,779 units sold.


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Lucky 13 for Child as Past Tense rewrites history


In the spring, Lee Child’s 23rd Jack Reacher title Past Tense became his (lucky) 13th paperback to go straight to the top of the Mass-Market Fiction chart, notching up a 33rd week atop that chart for the author in total. The 2018-released hard- back edition is Child’s best- seller in the format, with its combined print total through Nielsen BookScan at well over half a million copies sold. He’s also a serial LibScan chart topper, too...


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Instagram star Hinch is Happy to clean up


Instagram “cleanfluencer” Mrs Hinch’s guide to all the best cleaning tips notched up the second- biggest first-week sale of the year in the UK—and it came just two weeks after Pinch of Nom’s record- shattering début. While Hinch’s title is coded in the House & Home category (its helped it climb 131% year on year), as a memoir it compared favourably to behemoth autobiographies by Sir Alex Ferguson and Michelle Obama, surpassing the first-week sales of both.


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Liane Moriarty’s mystery novel Nine


Perfect Strangers, set in a wellness retreat, is the second-bestselling Adult Fiction title of the year to date, pipping Jojo Moyes’ Still Me to the post by just 1,796 copies.


10 Sally Rooney on target


Normal People had a stunning run in hardback, garnering multiple awards and selling a whisker under 158,000 copies. But the paperback has topped it, shifting 228,689 copies in total to date.


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