Harry Potter's Female Readers Now Driving The Boom In 'Grip Lit'

Book2Book Thursday 17 Mar 2016

The women switched on to books by Harry Potter are shaping the literary world, according to new research, boosting the market in thrillers, adult colouring books and clean eating.
Statistics from Nielsen Book show that fiction sales were up 5.2% last year, with crime and thriller novels accounting for 29% of the market, the second-largest genre behind general and literary fiction, which was worth 41%.


Guardian