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Book sales bounced back from last week's low with double-digit growth for both the total consumer market and general retail market week-on-week.
The high street in particular saw a lift in the week ending 16th January, with the GRM up 13.2% on last week, which equated to £14.1m taken through the tills. The TCM was up 10.4%, to a total just shy of £27m. However, both GRM and TCM continue to be down year-on-year - by 8.8% and 6.9% respectively. Just 15 books sold more than 10,000 copies over the seven days, compared with 18 this time last year.
Orion's Harlan Coben climbed to the summit of the top 50, with the second week's sales of Long Lost accounting for more than half of the 48,000 sold so far. This is his strongest weekly sale - a total of 28,761 - beating his previous record, set by The Woods in the week ending 2nd February 2008, by just 42 copies.
TS Learner's debut novel Sphinx (Sphere) shot to third place, selling nearly 16,500 copies - no doubt helped in part by heavy discounting, which has pushed its actual selling price to £3.79, from its starting point of £6.99.
Cormac McCarthy's The Road continued its journey up the top 50 charts, with the film tie-in edition jumping from 16th to 5th, thanks to sales of more than 16,000 this week. Meanwhile Dan Brown's downward trend continued, with the author dropping to 26th position, after selling just 6,708 copies.
Books featured on The TV Book Club also saw an increase, with the The Little Stranger, Juliet, Naked, Sacred Hearts all increasing sales and moving up the Top 50, while both Blacklands, and The Rapture moved into the Top 50.