Digital Bestseller Lists: Goacher turns poacher at the top
Lucy Goacher’s The Edge (Thomas & Mercer) cut into the Bookstat number one for the week ending 5th November, leading a chart heavy with new entries. Claire Douglas’ The Girls Who Disappeared (Penguin) returned to the top, as Alex Smith’s King Rat (Relentless), Jess Lourey’s The Quarry Girls (Thomas & Mercer), Charlie N Holmberg’s Keeper of Enchanted Rooms (47North) and Jenny Colgan’s The Christmas Bookshop (Sphere) thundered into the top 10.
Matthew Perry’s Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing (Headline) notched up a rare appearance for a non-fiction title in the e-book top 10, charting ninth as its hardback soared into the Hardback Non-Fiction number one.
Lee and Andrew Child’s No Plan B (Transworld) hit the Publisher E-Book Ranking number one spot for the week ending 29th October, ending the run of Colleen Hoover’s It Starts with Us (S&S) in the digital top spot after just one week.
Patricia Cornwell’s Livid (Little,Brown) chalked up fourth place, as Sarah Morgan’s Snowed in for Christmas (HQ), currently isolating in the Mass Market Fiction runner-up spot, swirled into fifth place. Bob Mortimer’s The Satsuma Complex (S&S) moved into 10th place
Clarification: Hachette has stated that The Christmas Bookshop sold 6,351 copies; Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing 3,411; and The Girlfriend 4,909.
