Thursday, August 14, 2014

Moyes knocks Green off top spot


Jojo Moyes has ended John Green’s eight week run at the top of the chart with her first UK number one for The One Plus One paperback (Penguin.)

The novel, which debuted at number one on the Original Fiction chart at the beginning of March, has sold 20,579 copies in hardback. The paperback has now sold 41,731 copies in three weeks and last week's 23,557 copies mark the author's best seven day sales tally of her professional career, which started in 2002 with the publication of her debut Sheltering Rain. Across physical editions the novel has sold 66,913 copies and an additional 92,626 'e' books (based on data supplied by Penguin Random House) for a total to date of 159,539 copies.

Moyes’ achievement marks the end of John Green’s reign at the top of the chart for The Fault in Our Stars (Penguin), which he has occupied since June.

There were no first week chart entries inside the overall Top 20 but many titles increased in volume sales week on week. Bones of the Lost (Arrow), the 16th novel from Kathy Reichs to feature forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, climbs eight places to number two selling 19,257 copies, up 54.5% week on week. The thriller has now sold 33,288 copies after two weeks inside the Top 10- up 8% on the previous installment in the series, Bones are Forever, which had sold 30,929 copies after two weeks in the Top 10 last August. That novel has sold 77,214 units to date in paperback. Reichs has sold a total of 4.7m books and has been worth £28.7m to booksellers based on Nielsen BookScan data.

At first glance, the latest releases from Chris Carter, Richard Madeley and Stuart MacBride might seem to have little in common but all three feature protagonists assisting law enforcers track down serial killers. Carter's An Evil Mind (Simon & Schuster) sees a psychologist assisting the FBI to track down a brutal serial killer and climbs one place to five in Original Fiction selling 1,788 copies. On the paperback Fiction chart, Madeley's The Way You Look Tonight (also Simon & Schuster, 11,982 copies) climbs 11 places to number five and features a criminal psychology student enlisted by President Kennedy to assist in a murder investigation. MacBride's A Song for the Dying (Harper, 11,031 copies) also climbs, to number eight, and finds the beleaguered, falsely imprisoned former detective Ash Henderson released from prison to help police track down a serial killer who re-emerges to terrorise Aberdeen.

Peter Robinson's Abattoir Blues (Hodder) remains at the top of the Original Fiction list this week for a second week with another 4,052 copies of the 22nd crime thriller featuring DCI Banks.
The start of the new series of "The Great British Bake-off" was difficult to avoid last week and combined sales inside the overall top 5,000 of Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood and Linda Collister's titles alongside other baking titles by Tarek Malouf, Lorraine Pascale among others, jumped 12% to just over 11,700 units and accounted for sales of over £100,000 in the TCM 5,000 last week.
Sales of Simon & Schuster’s looming series jumped an impressive 43% week on week for the publisher's four titles - Loom Magic!, Creatures!, Charms! and Xtreme! - selling 20,070 copies. The four titles have already sold 38,700 copies in just three weeks.

Overall, 3.2m books registered through BookScan last week for a combined value of £23.1m.

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