Charts Global bestsellers


ending 17th March 2018—and, even more rarely, every territory aside from Ireland and Brazil has a home-grown author at number one. Essex-born-and-bred Jamie Oliver swiped the UK’s top spot for the period—as he did for the calen- dar year 2017—selling just under a million copies of 5 Ingredients. Aſter a relatively lean few years for the celebrit chef—in 2016 neither of his two releases managed to crack the 250,000-copy mark—5 Ingredients represented a glorious return to form, in line with his previous numerical hits, 2010’s 30-Minute Meals (the best- selling non-fiction title in the Book- Scan era) and 2012’s 15-Minute Meals. 5 Ingredients, Oliver’s third-bestselling title below those two, had an incred- ibly consistent run in the autumn, shiſting around 50,000 copies week- in, week-out. It then rocketed in sales over December, swiping the (unof- ficial) Christmas Number One with


Amish Tripathi’s Ram Chandra series has been phenomenally successful, helping Tripathi to become


India’s top-earning author of adult titles


almost exactly £1m earned in the week ending 23rd December. But the period’s number one author—and the official Christ- mas Number One (for the week ending 16th December)—was David Walliams, who earned £16.5m with illustrator Tony Ross. The duo’s Bad Dad spent six weeks at number one; their Blob became the fastest-selling single World Book Day title of all time; and short story collection The World’s Worst Children 2 racked up four number ones of its own in the spring.


Walliams was also the bestsell- ing author in Ireland and authored the territory’s number one: Bad Dad. Hot on his heels in second place, was Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen’s Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling. The title, which robustly challenged Walliams’ dominance over the Christ- mas period, grew out of a Facebook page of the same name created by the pair—the Emerald Isle’s fiſth-most valuable author propert in 2017—who adapted it into a novel. In a similar vein, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, funded by a Kickstarter project, hit the Irish chart in ninth place. While the UK and Irish charts


Author Top 10s United Kingdom


author


1 David Walliams 2 Julia Donaldson 3 J K Rowling 4 Jamie Oliver 5 Lee Child


6 Philip Pullman 7 Jeff Kinney


8 James Patterson 9 Joe Wicks 10 Fiona Watt


value (£)


16,594,151 14,625,040 13,055,171 12,604,726 7,928,453 6,120,152 5,900,190 5,799,444 5,457,826 5,123,362


David Walliams was the most valu- able author for the 52-week period in both the UK and Ireland, while J K Rowling trailed him in third place (UK) and second place (Ireland)


greatly overlap, India marches to its own drum. Amish Tripathi’s fantasy title Sita: Warrior of Mithila strolls away with the number one spot, shiſt- ing 133,609 copies. The second in the author’s Ram Chandra series— the first, Ram: Scion of Ikshvaku, is in 19th place—has been phenom- enally successful, helping Tripathi to become India’s top-earning author of adult titles. It also earned him a place on Forbes India’s Celebrit 100 list for five years running. Tripathi, whose books are steeped in Hindu theol- ogy, has made a concerted effort to have his works translated into local languages, such as Tamil and Hindi, rather than just English, identifying this as the “next big change” in Indian publishing.


52 weeks to 17th March 2018


Ireland author


1 David Walliams 2 J K Rowling 3 Jeff Kinney


4 Julia Donaldson


5 McLysaght & Breen 6 John Grisham 7 Jamie Oliver 8 Lee Child


9 Favilli & Cavallo 10 Marian Keyes


India value (€)


2,040,265 1,342,729 1,093,965 982,072 606,139 562,194 561,467 529,049 524,566 491,285


author 1 J K Rowling


2 Geronimo Stilton 3 Amish Tripathi 4 Dan Brown 5 Jeff Kinney 6 Rick Riordan 7 Rhonda Byrne 8 Paulo Coelho 9 M Laxmikanth


value (inr)


105,565,598 64,996,844 60,569,588 55,275,306 53,701,616 43,129,723 41,657,032 38,655,825 34,845,270


10 George R R Martin 31,629,732


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