Charts Global bestsellers Top of the Papes the bestseller lists


Australia title


1 The Barefoot Investor 2 The 91-Storey Treehouse 3 5 Ingredients


4 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck 5 The Getaway


6 The Midnight Line 7 Working Class Man 8 Origin


Lee Child was the most valuable adult fiction author in Australasia


9 Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 10 Bad Dad


Nielsen BookScan territories were marked by a lack of consensus in 2017, as Australia propels investment advisor Scot Pape to top spot. Kiera O’Brien reports


I


F THE NUMBER one bestseller of a territory’s book chart said anything about the country itself,


we’d have to surmise that Australia is obsessed with money, New Zealand is obsessed with food, and South Africa is obsessed with... political corrup- tion. (Wonder if the US chart will start to look the same in a year or two?) In Australia, finance expert Scot Pape topped the chart covering the 52 weeks to 17th March 2018, with The Barefoot Investor selling a tidy 491,846 copies. Pape, who edged out J K Rowl- ing as Australia’s biggest-earning author for the same timeframe, will presumably invest his share of the $11.8m he brought in last year for John Wiley wisely. The Australian top 10 was a bois-


terous affair, with the only female- authored title Elena Favilli and Franc- esca Cavallo’s Good Night Stories for


www.thebookseller.com


New Zealand title


1 Eat


2 The Midnight Line 3 Bad Dad 4 Let’s Eat!


5 The Getaway


6 Essential Annabel Langbein 7 The 91-Storey Treehouse 8 The World’s Worst Children 2 9 Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 10 No Middle Name


South Africa title


1 The President’s Keepers 52 weeks to 17th March 2018 author Scott Pape imprint John Wiley isbn (978+) sales 0730324218 491,846


A Griffiths & T Denton Pan Australia 1743549926 320,939 Jamie Oliver Mark Manson Jeff Kinney Lee Child


Michael Joseph 0718187729 257,316 Macmillan... Puffin


Bantam


Jimmy Barnes Dan Brown


E Favilli & F Cavallo Particular


1925483598 230,778 0143782797 178,443 0593078174 121,808


HarperCollins 1460752142 120,729 Bantam


0593078754 116,060 0141986005 114,773


D Walliams & T Ross HarperCollins 0008254339 111,090 52 weeks to 17th March 2018 author


Chelsea Winter Lee Child


imprint isbn (978+)


Random House... 0143771265 Bantam


0593078174


D Walliams & T Ross HarperCollins 0008254339 Nadia Lim Jeff Kinney


Nude Food Puffin


Annabel Langbein A Langbein


Particular Bantam


A Griffiths & T Denton Pan Australia 1743549926 D Walliams & T Ross HarperCollins 0008259679 E Favilli & F Cavallo Lee Child


0141986005 0593079027


0473400187 0143782797 0958266895


sales


32,663 28,090 25,148 18,160 17,521 16,726 16,062 13,492 12,041 11,850


52 weeks to 17th March 2018 author Jacques Pauw 2 Oxford South African School Dictionary - Dan Brown imprint Tafelberg


3 The Official Best... Driver’s Manual - Safeways 4 Oxford Tweetalige Skoolwoordeboek - 5 Origin


6 Courting the Enemy 7 The Tiger’s Prey


Sherryl Woods


8 The English Handbook and Study Guide Beryl Lutrin 9 The Official... Driver’s Made Easy


Clive Gibson et al isbn (978+)


OUP S. Africa 0195983968 1868590735


OUP S. Africa 0199054688 Bantam


Silhouette


0593078754 0373244119


0620325837 sales


W Smith & T Harper HarperCollins 0007535910 Berlut


10 Oxford Mini School Dictionary - OUP


Struik Lifestyle 1432304058 0192747082


0624083030 126,754 49,691 42,228 29,895 23,132 20,175 18,934 17,680 17,398 16,996


Chef Nadia Lim was one of three cooks in New Zealand’s top 10 authors


Rebel Girls, in ninth. Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients, the UK’s bestselling book of the year, struck a particular chord Down Under—the only other Book- Scan territory in which it hit the top 10. (The Naked Chef charted just outside in Ireland, clinching 11th place.) But Oliver was beaten to the silver medal in Australia by Andy Grif- fiths and Terry Denton’s The 91-Storey Treehouse. Griffiths and Denton are


09


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40