IN BRIEF Top 10 Ireland


Two home-grown fiction writers hit the top 10 in the country with more Booker winners per capita than any other nation


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Heather Morris reigns again as fiction


queen in Ireland, beating even home-grown Sally Rooney to the top of the genre chart. The Tattooist of Auschwitz has shifted 30,859 copies to claim second place overall.


5 Fing stretches its wings


Ireland returns the same Children’s bestseller as the UK, with David Walliams and Tony Ross’ Fing atop the chart since February, having sold 24,925 units.


8 Hannigan’s Gift keeps giving


Emma Hannigan’s legacy continues, as her final fiction title The Gift of Friends charts in the top 10. The author died in early 2018 after a long battle with breast cancer, but the close-knit Irish author community campaigned to push her to the top spot.


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Bestseller Lists Ireland Top 10


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Love series still grows


of the charts


Ireland’s schoolbook series Grow in Love dominates its 2019 charts, with Grow in Love: Sixth Class swiping the nation’s top spot, with 32,018 copies sold, and the Junior Infant Children’s Book scoring seventh place. Sixth Class, the newest of the Grow in Love series, is catching up fast, with over 32,000 copies sold in Ireland since June.


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Maths title delivers the numbers for sector


Another Irish schoolbook joins Grow in Love: Sixth Class at the top of the charts: Mathematical Tables, which has sold 31,031 copies in 2019 to date. Ireland’s School Textbooks & Study Guides sector is in almost sickeningly good health, with a 7% bump in value year on year. In fact, with a value of €13.2m this year, it’s pennies away from surpassing 2018’s annual total already.


Rooney’s Normal novel posts extraordinary sales


This year’s


homegrown star


Sally Rooney’s Normal People has won more awards than Meryl Streep and sold a total of 403,055 copies across all print editions in the UK, with the paperback edition scoring a respectable 10th place in the overall charts for the UK. But Ireland’s Millennial queen is frankly the only Rooney the territory cares about, despite Coleen “Wagatha Christie” Rooney’s investigational nous. The average Irish person is more than twice as likely to own a copy of Normal People than the average Brit, and on her home turf the author has shifted nearly 100,000 units. Of course, the title picked up both Fiction Book of the Year and Overall Book of the Year at his year’s Nibbies.


Though not quite the huge sales it


recorded in the UK, Kate Allinson and Kay Featherstone’s Pinch of Nom has sold 24,022 copies in Ireland. It is the territory’s top-selling Adult Non-Fiction title.


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This is Going to sell: Kay translates UK success


Adam Kay’s junior-doctor memoir has been a smash hit in the UK—in paperback and e-book, recently becoming the most prolific number one of all time in The Bookseller’s Weekly E-Book Ranking. The medic-turned- comedian has repeated the trick in Ireland, with This is Going to Hurt selling 18,445 copies in paperback format to chart ninth in the Irish print charts.


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Second Love title tops 20k for Veritas


The second Grow in Love title to chart in Ireland’s top 10 is in seventh place, with 20,653 copies sold in 2019. The Junior Infant Children’s Book is among the most popular titles in the series, having sold 52,207 copies since its publication in 2015. Published by the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference-owned Veritas, the textbook series has sold 267,721 units in total, for a value of more than €2.8m.


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Walliams’ Worst good enough for 10th spot


Ireland has a glorious roll-call of Adult Fiction writers, with the highest rate of Booker winners per-capita in the world. But Children’s fiction is still dominated by UK authors, at least in sales terms. Walliams has the top two Irish kids’ titles for the year to date, with The World’s Worst Teachers in 10th place overall after three months on sale. In total, Walliams—plus illustrators Tony Ross and Quentin Blake—have shifted over a million books on the Emerald Isle.


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