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Jo Nesbo claims first UK Number One with Police
Jo Nesbo has scored his first ever UK Top 50 number one with the paperback edition of Police (Vintage).
The Norwegian writer tops the chart after the mass market paperback edition originally debuted at number two last week but climbed to the top spot in its second week, selling 21,651 copies, up 36% in volume (week on week).
This is Nesbo’s 10th novel in the series of books featuring the police officer Harry Hole. Police has now sold over 40,000 copies in paperback in eight weeks, on top of nearly 39,000 copies in hardback and additional 12,076 in various trade editions. To date, the series has registered sales in excess of 2.3m copies through Nielsen BookScan with the seventh thriller, The Snowman, currently the bestselling installment across physical editions shifting just under 500,000 in the UK (496,475). To date, the series has been worth over £13.4m to UK booksellers.
With seven days of sales behind them, many recent new entrants to the chart jumped in sales week on week, with crime dominating the top three slots. Fall From Grace (Penguin) - Tim Weaver's fifth crime novel to feature journalist turned missing person's investigator David Raker - climbs nine places to take second spot with 13,803 copies sold, up 34% week on week. Peter May's latest thriller, Entry Island (Quercus) jumped from 17th place to third selling 12,980 copies. Meanwhile, Susan Lewis climbs 11 places into the Top 5 with her novel Never Say Goodbye (Arrow). Lewis also climbs with her latest hardback in the Original Fiction chart, Behind Closed Doors (Century) debuted at eighth place but climbs to number six on that chart this week selling 1,758 copies.
High climbers inside the overall Top 10 meant that last week's number one, The One Plus One (Penguin) by Jojo Moyes slips to number six after two weeks at the top. Nevertheless, entries by Moyes, Nesbo, Weaver, Lewis, John Green and Helen Fielding at number 10 with Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Vintage) means that Penguin Random House dominated the Top 10 this week with 56% of the overall volume and 57% of the value.
In Original Fiction, Philippa Gregory maintained her position at the top with an additional 9,176 copies sold of The King's Curse (Simon & Schuster). Just three other titles so far this year-Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish For (Pan Macmillan), Stephen King's Mr Mercedes (Hodder) and Robert Galbraith's The Silkworm (Sphere)- have sold more copies in a single week at the top. There were no changes to the top three and no debuts in the top 10. Stephen Leather's 11th Spider Shepherd thriller White Lies (Hodder), which sees Dan 'Spider' Shepherd kidnapped by terrorists during a botched rescue mission, climbs from 11th spot to nine, selling 1,321 copies.
The Great British Bake off: Big Book of Baking (BBC) maintained its position at the top of the hardback Non-fiction chart with 5,177 copies, up 39% in volume terms week on week. The inevitable focus on baking is proving lucrative for the BBC imprint and Mary Berry.
Inside the hardback Top 10 for Non-fiction, BBC claims four coveted places with Mary Berry Cooks and Simple Cakes taking numbers five and ten respectively and selling 3,055 copies combined. In addition, the BBC imprint scores another hit with Miss Hope and Mr Greenwood's Sweets Made Simple climbing seven places to number three this week and selling 2,751.
In paperback Non-fiction, The Official Highway Code re-claims the top spot for a second week this year.
Overall, 3.1 million book sales registered through Nielsen BookScan last week for a combined value of £22.6m, down 3% on last week but flat on the same week last year.
