Books by women make up seven of the top 10 most bought this year, while colouring-in is more popular than TV tie-insAfter a 2014 that saw books for kids – led by John Green and David Walliams novels – ruling the annual sales chart, 2015 was the year of the women. Female authors, including Harper Lee and Judith Kerr, took seven of the top 10 places, leaving room only for Guinness World Records and two of the three kings of Christmas, Walliams and Jeff Kinney, with the third, Jamie Oliver, just outside at number 11.The last time this happened was in 2012, and then the distaff dominance was exaggerated by the fact that two of that year’s elite, EL James and Suzanne Collins, had produced trilogies and all three of their Fifty Shades and Hunger Games titles were highly placed. Here, in contrast, the works by women at the chart’s summit are one-offs and remarkably varied – BDSM porn, a colouring book, the resuscitation of a cat who passed away in 2002’s Goodbye, Mog, the return of an Alabama attorney and his daughter who last appeared 55 years ago, and the tales of a perma-sozzled unemployed commuter (The Girl on the Train), a narrator with dementia (Elizabeth Is Missing) and a fed-up wife in 17th-century Amsterdam (The Miniaturist). Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 19/09/2011 - 14:24 A Game of Thrones author George RR Martin has become the latest author to sell one million copies of his books for the Amazon Kindle. Martin joins Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Charlaine Harris, Lee Child,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 20/06/2011 - 14:31 John Locke has become the first self-published author to sell more than one million ebooks through Amazon. The author used Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform to publish and sell his titles. He joins Stieg Larsson,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 06/06/2011 - 14:49 Lee Child and Suzanne Collins are the latest authors to sell more than a million Kindle books. The pair join Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts and Charlaine Harris. Child, who has written 16 Jack Reacher thrillers... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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