Digital Bestseller Lists: Mighty Palace returns to the summit
Miranda Cowley Heller’s The Paper Palace (Penguin) returned to the Bookstat number one spot for the first time since May, for the week ending 10th September. Paula Hawkins’ A Slow Fire Burning (Penguin) seared up into second place, edging out the previous week’s number one, Robert Galbraith’s The Ink Black Heart (Sphere), into third place.
Stephen King’s Fairy Tale (Hodder), the same week’s Original Fiction number one, notched up fourth in the e-book top 10. J D Robb’s Desperation in Death (Little,Brown), Ian Rankin’s A Song for the Dark Times (Orion) and Susan Lewis’ Who’s Lying Now? (HarperCollins) made their débuts in the chart.
The Ink Black Heart débuted at the top of the Publisher E-Book Ranking for the week ending 3rd September, in the same week it topped both the Nielsen BookScan Top 50 in print and the Bookstat chart in e-book. New fiction roared into the Ranking, with Ann Cleeves’ The Rising Tide (Macmillan), Robert Harris’ Act of Oblivion (Penguin) and Maggie O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait débuting in the top five. Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Carrie Soto is Back (Penguin) scored eighth place.
Clarification: Hachette has stated that The Ink Black Heart sold 5,888 copies, Fairy Tale 5,380, Desperation in Depth 4,275 and A Song for the Dark Times 5,037.
