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Richard and Judy make Rubenfeld number one
06.02.07 Giles Elliott
The start of the Richard & Judy Book Club last week propelled the TV couple's first pick, Jed Rubenfeld's The Interpretation of Murder (Headline Review) to number one, with sales of nearly 46,000 copies in the week. The sale represented a 60% rise on the previous seven days and took book to a club level only previously surpassed by Kate Mosse's Labyrinth (Orion), 12 months ago.
Competing mass market novels had to be content with chain Book of the Week promotions. W H Smith's selection Stephen King's Cell (Hodder) came close to 40,000 in second place, while Waterstone's offer, Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith (Abacus), sold around 31,500 copies to give Hachette Livre UK a 1-2-3 in the charts.
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