The Girl on the Train derails Cursed Child to return to number one

The Girl on the Train (Black Swan) has overtaken Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Little, Brown) to claim the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a seventh week, as the film tie-in edition of Hawkins’ unstoppable thriller rose to third place. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Third week at number one for Lee Child's 'Night School'

Lee Child's Night School (Bantam) has racked up a third non-consecutive week as the UK Official Top 50 number one, the veteran crime author's joint longest-ever run in the overall top spot. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Night School' takes Lee Child to 16th number one

Lee Child has tussled his way into the Official UK Top 50 number one spot for a 16th time, with Night School (Bantam) shifting 36,151 copies for £144,387, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weekly E-Ranking: Girl on the Train back after break in service

Paula Hawkins reclaims her crown at the top of the Weekly E-Book Ranking chart, while Ann Cleeves' latest Shetlands title Cold Earth moves into second place.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weekly E-Ranking: Ellie Dean shunts Girl on the Train into the sidings

Ellie Dean’s Until You Come Home shunted 17-time Weekly E-Book Ranking number one The Girl on the Train into the sidings to claim the top spot; the 12th title in the author’s Second World War-set Beach View Boarding House series brought down the ranking’s Goliath in its first week out of the blocks. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Monthly E-Ranking: The Girl on the Train scores 11th month at summit

The Girl on the Train, having dominated the ebook charts throughout 2016, scores the final Monthly E-Book Ranking of the year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Girl on the Train is the UK's most popular library book

Paula Hawkins' novel The Girl on the Train was borrowed from libraries 200 times a day in 2015/16. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2017-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unstoppable Train takes the Weekly E-Ranking number one for a 14th week

The Girl on the Train (Transworld) has chugged its way into a 14th non-consecutive week as the Weekly E-Ranking number one. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Cursed Child' Boosts Kids' July Sales

The July publication of 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' helped raise sales in the children's/young adult segment 31.1% in July over a year ago. July sales of adult books fell. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Cursed Child' Top Selling Book at Amazon in 2016

'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2' was Amazon's best-selling book of 2016 and was also the year's "most wished for" and "most gifted" book at the e-tailer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Politics Tops in France; ‘Cursed Child’ Big in Germany, Italy

The top of France’s nonfiction list took on a political bent in October, with an exposé of French president François Hollande penned by investigative journalists Fabrice Lhomme and Gérard Davet after five years of research. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Girl on the Train buys its ticket for a 12th week in the top spot

The Girl on the Train (Black Swan) has puffed into the Official UK Top 50 number one spot for a 12th non-consecutive week. It sold 25,041 copies for £120,353—and is still yet to shift fewer than 20,000 copies per week, since its release in May. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Monthly E-Ranking: The Girl on the Train steams back into the top spot, but I See You has it in its sights

The Girl on the Train (Transworld) has once again chugged straight into the Monthly E-Book Sales Ranking number one spot for August—shifting 41,335 copies to usurp Jojo Moyes’ After You (Michael Joseph). The top three— the aforementioned two, along with After You’s predecessor Me Before You,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Girl on the Train lines up in first and second place

The Girl on the Train (Black Swan) has run away with both first and second place in the Official UK Top 50, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cursed Child boosts Scholastic Corp revenues

Sales of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has given US-based Scholastic Corp a huge boost, as the company has today posted a first quarter revenue increase of 48%. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audio download chart, August 2016: Girl on the Train steamrolls competition

A familiar face tops the audiobook list, while the new play script helps Harry Potter sweep seven of the top 20 chart places. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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High five for Cursed Child in book chart

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Little, Brown) has racked up five weeks as the Official UK Top 50 number one—but the gap is closing. According to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market, the playscript sold 36,485 copies for £455,824, just 7,503 units above runner-up The Girl on the Train... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cursed Child Tops in Germany

German readers were as wrapped up in Pottermania as readers in America and England in July, as the eighth installment in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2, took the top of the fiction chart in Germany at the end of July. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cursed Child sells 2.6m through BookScan US

J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Arthur A Levine) sold nearly 2.6m print units in its first week through BookScan US, the third-biggest single week total for a book since accurate records began.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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