Claire Douglas’ The Girls who Disappeared (Penguin) claimed another week atop the Bookstat top 10, with Jenny Colgan’s The Christmas Bookshop (Sphere) once again joining it in the top two. Scott Mariani’s Graveyard of Empires (HarperCollins) and Rachel McLean’s Deadly Christmas (Ackyroyd) débuted in the top four.
Eve Chase’s The Birdcage (Penguin), Sara Nisha Adam’s The Reading List (HarperCollins) and Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds (Macmillan) bounced back into the top 10, as Martina Cole’s Hard Girls (Headline) made its digital début—the 2009-published hardback and 2010 paperback have sold nearly 600,000 copies between them.
Brandon Sanderson’s The Lost Metal (Orion), the conclusion of his second Scadrial-set fantasy series, swiped the Publisher E-Book Ranking top spot for the week ending 19th November. Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees (Penguin) soared into fourth place, as Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan’s Mad Honey (Hodder) buzzed into sixth place.
All three of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club titles hit the publisher-supplied top 10, with The Thursday Murder Club and The Man Who Died Twice (Penguin) rising to join The Bullet that Missed. Robert Galbraith’s The Ink Black Heart (Sphere) also boomeranged back, after the trailer for the new BBC Cormoran Strike series dropped.
Clarification: Hachette has stated that The Christmas Bookshop has sold 10,118 copies and Hard Girls 3,310.