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Summer’s Hum Angela Harding Sphere, 9781408721933
The Let Them Theory Mel and Sawyer Robbins Hay House UK, 9781788176187
What I Ate in One Year Stanley Tucci Penguin, 9781405963725
Big Dunc Duncan Ferguson Century, 9781529939286
What Have I Done? Ben Elton Macmillan, 9781035059942
How to Kill a Witch C Mitchell, Z Venditozzi Monoray, 9781800961883
A Pawtobiography Ted the Dog Ebury, 9781529965896
The Trading Game Gary Stevenson Penguin, 9781802062731
poyums annaw Len Pennie Canongate, 9781837263288
Falling into Autumn Angela Harding Sphere, 9781408721957
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Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear Gyles Brandreth Michael Joseph, 9780241582541
Prisoners of Geography Tim Marshall Elliott & Thompson, 9781783968596
A History of the World in 47 Borders Jonn Elledge Wildfire, 9781472298546
Autocracy, Inc Anne Applebaum Penguin, 9781802062120
When Gavin Met… Ruth Jones, James Corden Bantam, 9780857507440
The Golden Road William Dalrymple Bloomsbury, 9781408864432
Craftland James Fox The Bodley Head, 9781847927866
Fly, Wild Swans Jung Chang William Collins, 9780008661069
The Lost Paths Jack Cornish Penguin, 9781405951296
The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt Penguin, 9781802063271
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Sword Max Hastings William Collins, 9780008699758
England: A Natural History John Lewis-Stempel Penguin (Transworld), 9781804992067
A Different Kind of Power Jacinda Ardern Macmillan, 9781035045402
Tart Slutty Cheff Bloomsbury, 9781526682697
Good Days Michael Rosen Ebury Press, 9781529148923
A History of Britain in Ten Enemies Terry Deary Penguin (Transworld), 9781804994979
Forgotten Churches Luke Sherlock Frances Lincoln, 9780711294103
Trelawney’s Cornwall Petroc Trelawney Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 9781474625104
Less Patrick Grant William Collins, 9780008663971
The Story of a Heart Rachel Clarke Abacus, 9780349145617
In the Spotlight
titles that have hit the Indie Top 50. While that is a similar count to the 17 members of the category that appear in the TCM Top 50, there is a crossover of only six titles – including Chloe Dalton’s ( 1) Raising Hare, which has been the most popular Non-Fiction title across the indies in these six months. Dalton’s memoir, longlisted for
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54,348 TCM copies sold
Raynor Winn ( 2) The Salt Path Penguin, £10.99, 9781405937184 Winn’s The Salt Path saw its sales nosedive following allegations in the Observer at the beginning of July regarding its veracity. It appears in fourth place in the indie ranking for this six-month period, but that is likely due its sales prior to the media investigation. At its peak week it was selling more than 7,000 copies, but those sales dropped to a low of 147 by the beginning of October.
4,884 TCM copies sold
Angela Harding Summer’s Hum Sphere, £12.99, 9781408721933 Harding is the only author to feature in the Indie Bookshop Top 50 more than once – with two of her seasonal quartet, Summer’s Hum and Falling into Autumn, appearing over 400 places higher than their full market ranking. The four volumes in the series combined have exceeded 25,000 units and are set to be evergreen sellers for indie bookshops.
the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction in 2025, also appears at the top of the equivalent UK-wide ranking, taking fourth place. Similarly, Charlie Mackesy’s Always Remember takes third place with indies and second in the TCM, proving that some books are universally popular. Not so for Robert Macfarlane’s
Is a River Alive? – it just misses out on the TCM Top 50 by fewer than 600 copies – but takes second place in the Indie Top 50. It is one of four Natural History titles that takes a slot in the Indie chart, three more than in its nationwide counterpart. The category that over-indexes
the most with indies though, is History, whether it be ancient, military, global or local. There are just four appearances in the UK Top 50 – compared with 11 in the Indies, led by Ben MacIntyre’s The Siege in ninth place.
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