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Australia’s answer to David Walliams and Tony Ross, with Griffiths’ name appearing eight times in the Aussie top 100. (Illustrator Denton, rather like Axel Scheffler in the UK, is largely uncredited on BookScan for his titles with the author.) Griffiths was also the territory’s fourth most valuable author, trousering $6.8m, a cool $1m more than Walliams. The Down Under duo’s World Book Day title Terry’s Dumb Dot Story has sold 67,438 copies in the UK since late February. Celebrit chef Chelsea Winter, the 2012 winner of New Zealand’s edition of “MasterChef”, rustled up


When it comes to kids’ books, the children of New Zealand seem evenly split between Walliams, Griffiths and Jeff Kinney, all of whom chart in both the title top 10 (with Bad Dad, The 91-Storey Treehouse and The Getaway respectively) and the Author Top 10. However, J K Rowling notably charts lower in New Zealand’s author list than she does in other territories (albeit, still managing sixth)—Kiwis p


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Celebrity chef Chelsea Winter, the 2012 winner of New Zealand’s edition of ‘MasterChef’, rustled up the Kiwi number one with her cookbook Eat


the Kiwi number one with her cook- book Eat. Her 2016 title, Scrumptious, also appeared in the country’s top 50. Fellow chef Nadia Lim’s Let’s Eat charted fourth, with Annabel Lang- bein’s Essential Annabel Langbein placing ninth. All three cooks were among New Zealand’s 10 most valu- able authors.


New Zealand also has a lot of love for Lee Child, with two of his titles in the top 10 and Night School in 67th. The Midnight Line, the author’s latest Jack Reacher title, stormed into second place overall, with his short story collection No Middle Name in 10


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returned the most “u ok hun?” best- seller list of the BookScan territo- ries—beating even the US, whose bestseller of 2018 to date is about its president’s McDonald’s habit. In February, South African president Jacob Zuma resigned, following years of corruption accusations. Appo- sitely, Jacques Pauw’s The President’s Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison stole away with the Rainbow Nation’s number one spot, selling 126,753 copies. In the top 20, Hennie Van Vuuren’s Apartheid, Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit charted 14th, Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s The Republic of Gupta—about the power- ful Gupta family, identified as the titular “keepers” in The President’s Keepers—hit 17th, and Adriaan Basson and Pieter du Toit’s Enemy of the People: How Jacob Zuma Stole South Afica and How the People Fought Back swiped 19th. Zuma’s succes- sor Cyril Ramaphosa, Nelson Mandela’s pick for president, will hope- h


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1 Scott Pape 2 J K Rowling 3 Jamie Oliver 4 Andy Griffiths 5 Mark Manson 6 David Walliams 7 Aaron Blabey 8 Lee Child


9 Liane Moriarty 10 Jimmy Barnes


value (aud) 11,839,019 11,710,754 8,592,132 6,844,588 6,806,674 5,726,176 5,549,210 5,515,714 5,094,433 5,079,266


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New Zealand author


1 Chelsea Winter 2 Lee Child


3 David Walliams 4 Annabel Langbein 5 Nadia Lim 6 J K Rowling 7 Jeff Kinney 8 Lynley Dodd 9 Wilbur Smith 10 Andy Griffiths


value (nzd) 1,689,231 1,637,128 1,514,555 949,452 942,721 801,157 614,194 610,241 561,271 554,755


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1 Jacques Pauw 2 Jeff Kinney 3 J K Rowling 4 Deon Meyer


5 James Patterson 6 Beryl Lutrin 7 Roger Priddy 8 Dan Brown


9 Danielle Steel 10 John Grisham


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35,033,100 13,982,286 9,871,708 9,226,624 8,917,421 8,278,091 7,794,987 6,997,783 6,220,131 5,707,962


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