UK Top Five Bestsellers
Osman cosies
up at the top Richard Osman has scored a one-two punch in the UK charts over the past year, with the first in a new series, We Solve Murders, shifting 458,000 copies in hardback to attain the summit easily, while second-placed The Last Devil to Die (nearly 377,000 units) was Britain’s tops in mass-market paperback. Third-placed Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid is one of her four titles in the UK
Top 50. Data source: Nielsen BookScan
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achette branches on three continents have inked a three-book deal for
BookToker Tierney Page’s ( 4) “steamy” romance series London Hearts. The first title in the series, The Other Brother, was originally self-published in January 2025; Hachette will now publish it in all formats globally in mid-2025, with books two and three to follow. Hachette Australia publisher
458,133 TCM copies sold
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Sophie Hamley acquired the books directly from Melbourne-based Page, who is known on TikTok as
tierney.reads; Hamley will be spearheading the project in the Australian and New Zealand markets. Elisha Lundin, senior commissioning editor at Little, Brown imprint Sphere, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Hachette Australia. North American rights, meanwhile, were picked up by Junessa Viloria at the Grand Central Publishing commer- cial fiction list Forever. The Other Brother begins with
376,642 TCM copies sold
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change the church forever. The publisher describes the "gorgeous" novel as a story of forbidden love, ardent faith, devo- tion and sacrifice, with the conse- quences of Margaret and David’s unlikely union reverberating across the generations. California-born, London-based
Sy-Quia’s first book, Amnion (Granta), won the 2021 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, followed by an Eric Gregory Award and a Somerset Maugham Award in 2022. It was also longlisted for the 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize, the 2022 Laurel Prize and the 2022 Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize.
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335,182 TCM copies sold
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April, who is deeply in love with her fiancé Lucas. But Lucas’ secret is discovered and everything falls apart. Some time later, a still- reeling April bumps into compli- cated, intense musician James – who just happens to be Lucas’ sibling. Could she end up falling for the other brother? Lundin said: “The Other Brother completely stole my heart. It’s not just a love story but a powerful exploration of choice, regret and the forbidden pull of the one person we shouldn’t want.”
Sphere scoops BookToker Tierney Page’s romance series
314,340 TCM copies sold
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311,297 TCM copies sold
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