Madeleine surges to top spot

Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Tue, 17/05/2011 - 16:04 Kate McCann's Madeleine (Bantam Press), the story of the abduction and continued search for her daughter, has become one of the fastest-selling non-fiction books since records began. Helped by better-than-half price deals at W H Smith and Amazon.co.uk, the hardback edition of the talked-about memoir, serialised in the Sun and extensively rereported elsewhere, sold 72,546 copies in its first three days on sale last week, selling an average of just over 1,000 copies per hour. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Deliciously Ella elbows Dan Brown from the top spot

Ella Mills' Deliciously Ella: The Plant-Based Cookbook (Yellow Kite) has ousted Dan Brown's Origin (Bantam) from the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, according to Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weekly E-Book Ranking: Morris holds on to the top spot

Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz tops the Weekly E-Book Ranking for a second week, in the same seven-day period that saw the hardback edition soar into the Original Fiction number one. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Grisham's Rooster flies into the chart top spot

John Grisham’s The Rooster Bar (Hodder) has leapfrogged David Walliams and Tony Ross’ The World’s Worst Children 3 (HarperCollins) to claim his second week at the UK Official Top 50 number one spot within a year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi rockets to chart top spot

Michael Kogge’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Dean & Son) has ascended into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 62,104 copies through Nielsen BookScan’s TCM. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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iBooks Bestsellers: Comey's Tell-All Takes the Top Spot

Former FBI director James Comey's tell-all book debut, 'A Higher Loyalty,' skyrocketed to the top of the Apple iBooks store even before its release date. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brain Freeze takes the top spot again as World Book Day titles bounce

Tom Fletcher and Shane Devries’ Brain Freeze (Puffin) has eased into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a second week running, selling 46,028 copies. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Honeyman's debut claims the top spot

Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (HarperCollins) has soared into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 29,442 copies for £170,329. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pullman dusts off second week in the charts top spot

Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage (PRH/David Fickling) has pulled off a second week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 45,015 copies for £546,248. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Clinton's What Happened dives straight into the US top spot

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s What Happened has sold 300,000 copies across all formats in its first week, according to publisher Simon & Schuster, claiming the US number one chart spot. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Monthly E-Ranking: The Handmaid's Tale takes top spot

The Handmaid’s Tale has become the first ebook since Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train to top the Monthly E-Book Ranking in consecutive months. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weekly E-Ranking: top spot handed back to Atwood

A lucky 13th week for The Handmaid’s Tale—it has rebounded back into the Weekly E-Book Ranking number one spot, after Helen Fields’ Perfect Prey briefly toppled it a week ago. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weekly E-Ranking: Handmaid's Tale keeps grip on top spot

The Handmaid's Tale has once again taken over the Weekly E-Book Ranking’s number one spot, gripping the list with the might of a totalitarian regime for a third non-consecutive week. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Father's Day titles climb charts, as Walliams keeps top spot

The World’s Worst Children 2 (HarperCollins Children's) has claimed a fourth week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 24,974 copies for £191,767. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weekly E-Ranking: Into the Water rows back into top spot

Paula Hawkins swam upstream and back into the Weekly E-Book Ranking number one spot, with Into the Water usurping Peter James’ Need You Dead. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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The Clever Guts Diet smarts its way into the top spot

Michael Mosley and Tanya Borowski’s The Clever Guts Diet (Short) has bowel’d into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 19,302 copies for £101,156 according to Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market, and denying Paula Hawkins’ Into the Water (Doubleday) a third week at the top. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lee Child's Night School boomerangs back into the chart top spot

Lee Child has reclaimed his UK Official Top 50 number one, as Night School (Bantam) boomeranged back into the top spot, displacing Star Wars: Rogue One (Egmont). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Star Wars: Rogue One rockets into the top spot

Matt Forbeck’s Star Wars: Rogue One (Egmont) has knocked Lee Child’s Night School (Bantam) off the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, shifting a stellar 57,949 copies according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blob goes straight into the top spot ahead of World Book Day

David Walliams has splashed into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot with Blob (HarperCollins Children's), for his 23rd overall top spot and his 10th inside the last 52 weeks. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tom Kerridge gets a Dopamine boost back into the top spot

Tom Kerridge’s Dopamine Diet (Absolute) has boomeranged back into the number one spot, selling 15,532 copies for £131,405. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brexit Island sails into top charts spot

Five on Brexit Island (Quercus) has stormed into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, denying David Walliams’ The Midnight Gang (HarperCollins Children's) an eighth week at the top. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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