THIS FROM BOOKSELLERS NEW ZEALAND
MISTER PIP MAKES RECORD SALES IN NEW ZEALAND AND OVERSEAS
Lloyd Jones’ book Mister Pip (Penguin Books) has topped the Best of the Bestsellers list beating international and national titles to be the overall number one bestseller in the Booksellers New Zealand Best of the Bestsellers List for 2007.
Penguin Books publishing director Geoff Walker said the achievement topped off an extraordinary year of awards. Mister Pip won the Montana Medal for fiction and poetry at this year’s Montana New Zealand Book Awards, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Commonwealth Prize for writing.
More than 46,000 copies of Mister Pip have now been sold in New Zealand. Another 25,000 copies have been sold in Australia and the book was now available in 30 countries worldwide. The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom had all bought rights to two of Lloyd Jones’ other books the Book of Fame and Here at the End of the World we Learn to Dance. A film based on Mister Pip was also looking very likely with negotiations well advanced.
“This is absolutely extraordinary. There has never been anything quite like it before,” Mr Walker said.
The adult Bestsellers Lists are compiled fortnightly by Booksellers New Zealand, and a Bestsellers List for children & teenagers is produced monthly. Sales figures are collected in specific categories – New Zealand Fiction, New Zealand Non-fiction, International Fiction, International Non-fiction, and Children & Teens. These figures identify the books that are bought in the greatest numbers for the given period. At the end of each year the total number of appearances of each title is tallied to establish which books have proven most consistently popular with New Zealand’s book-buying public.
This year’s bestselling books were:
Lloyd Jones’ book Mister Pip (Penguin Books) has topped the Best of the Bestsellers list beating international and national titles to be the overall number one bestseller in the Booksellers New Zealand Best of the Bestsellers List for 2007.
Penguin Books publishing director Geoff Walker said the achievement topped off an extraordinary year of awards. Mister Pip won the Montana Medal for fiction and poetry at this year’s Montana New Zealand Book Awards, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Commonwealth Prize for writing.
More than 46,000 copies of Mister Pip have now been sold in New Zealand. Another 25,000 copies have been sold in Australia and the book was now available in 30 countries worldwide. The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom had all bought rights to two of Lloyd Jones’ other books the Book of Fame and Here at the End of the World we Learn to Dance. A film based on Mister Pip was also looking very likely with negotiations well advanced.
“This is absolutely extraordinary. There has never been anything quite like it before,” Mr Walker said.
The adult Bestsellers Lists are compiled fortnightly by Booksellers New Zealand, and a Bestsellers List for children & teenagers is produced monthly. Sales figures are collected in specific categories – New Zealand Fiction, New Zealand Non-fiction, International Fiction, International Non-fiction, and Children & Teens. These figures identify the books that are bought in the greatest numbers for the given period. At the end of each year the total number of appearances of each title is tallied to establish which books have proven most consistently popular with New Zealand’s book-buying public.
This year’s bestselling books were:
Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones (Penguin Books) New Zealand Fiction
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards (Penguin/Viking) International Fiction
Edmonds Cookery Book (Hachette Livre New Zealand) New Zealand Non-fiction
The Secret – Rhonda Byrne (Simon and Schuster) International Non-fiction
Eldest – Christopher Paolini (Corgi) Children & Teens
The complete Best of the Bestsellers List is available on the Booksellers website at http://www.booksellers.co.nz/
1 comment:
Be interesting to see whether "Mr Pip" is still on the bestseller lists in another 23 years..."the bone people" still is-
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