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7th September 2008

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Orion storms the charts

08.07.08

Linwood Barclay's No Time For Goodbye is the fifth chart-topper in as many weeks, after a spot on Richard and Judy last Wednesday helped generate 53,937 unit sales through the market last week.

The thriller capped a strong week for Orion, which is currently enjoying four number ones across The Bookseller's charts. Barclay's thriller tops the Official UK Top 50 and the mass-market fiction chart, while Richard Hammond's On the Edge (Phoenix) holds onto pole position for a fifth week in papberback non-fiction, and Francesca Simon's Horrid Henry Robs the Bank spends a fourth week atop the Children's list.

Sadie Jones' The Outcast (Vintage) slipped to second place despite a slight sales increase week-on-week to 33,844 copies sold, while Robert Harris' The Ghost (Arrow), helped by a "£2.99 if you buy The Times" offer at W H Smith, enjoyed a 22,327 sales increase week-on-week to jump into third position.

Karin Slaughter's Fractured (Century), the second book featuring Special Agent Will Trent, is this week's highest new entry. Selling 10,170 copies during the seven days to 5th July, it represents Slaughters strongest hardback weekly sale since records began, and was helped by a Waterstone's half-price Offer of the Week promotion.

Meanwhile, revenue taken through the Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market reached a 15-week high, at £30.6m, up 1.4% year-on-year.

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