Digital Bestseller Lists: Marian holds the Keyes to the top

Eight new titles have flocked into the Bookstat E-Book top 10 for the week ending 7th March, with Daisy Pearce’s The Silence in the number one spot. Of course, Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light also broke into the chart, hitting fourth place with an estimated 20,114 units sold. Nearly 15,000 of those were identified as pre-orders by Bookstat. The third Cromwell title runs to 883 pages in hardback, so for any Mantel fans not conveniently self-quarantined last week, the e-book was certainly a much more commutable option.

Outside The Mirror and the Light, the chart was almost exclusively crime, with only Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing also flying the flag for historical fiction.

Over in the Publisher E-Book Ranking, there’s still a week to go before Hurricane Hilary [Mantel]. For the week ending 29th February, Marian Keyes’ irrepressible Grown-Ups boomeranged back into the number one spot, only a week after it lost the topslot to Ben Aaronovitch’s False Value. Katie Fforde’s A Springtime Affair was the only new entry in the chart, bought perhaps a little optimistically by the rain-drenched book buying public.

Clarification: Hachette has stated that... Eyes of Darkness sold 10,305 digital units, and Where the Crawdads Sing sold 11,723 copies in digital form.