We have five titles in the Hardback Fiction chart and eight in the Trade Paperback (large format) Fiction chart. Linda Grant's Booker shortlisted The Clothes on Their Backs goes up to No. 3, one place above the Trade Paperback of the eventual winner, White Tiger, Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts is at No. 5, and Alexander McCall Smith's The Miracle at Speedy Motors comes back into the Top 50 at No. 13, increasing sales by 400% on last week.
Linda Fairstein's Killer Heat is at No. 23 in the Paperback Fiction chart and Charley Boorman's By Any Means goes up to No. 34 in the Hardback Non-Fiction chart.
Jon Butler and Bruno Vincent's Do Bats Have Bollocks? enters the Paperback Non-Fiction chart at No. 27, eight places higher than their previous book Do Ants Have Arseholes? this time last year, and the film tie-in of Toby Young's How To Lose Friends & Alienate People is at No. 46.
We have four titles in the Science Fiction Paperback chart, including The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks at No. 4 for the second week, while The Gypsy Morph by Terry Brooks is at No. 8 in the Science Fiction Hardback Top 10, and Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is at No. 18 in the Children's chart.
(All data sourced from Nielsen BookScan)
Posted 22/10/2008 14:37:16 by Helen Graham, Data Analyst with 0 comments.