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The Sentinel stands guard in top spot as market jumps 8%
Lee and Andrew Child's The Sentinel (Corgi) has claimed the UK Official Top 50 number one spot in its first week on sale, selling 19,996 copies, as sales figures return to the Nielsen BookScan charts.
This is the elder Child brother's 23rd week in the overall UK top spot, and the second for Andrew Child, after the hardback of The Sentinel topped the charts in October 2020.
However, with bookshops across the nation still closed during the current UK lockdown, the newest Jack Reacher paperback's sales were clearly affected—with its first-week week numbers considerably down on Past Tense's 42,281 copies sold in its launch week in April 2019.
Last week, 3.2 million books worth £27.8m were sold through the Total Consumer Market, which, despite the pandemic, was an improvement of 3.04% in volume and 8.25% in value on week 11 last year.
Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse (Ebury) re-claimed the Hardback Non-Fiction top spot from Ebury stablemate Stacey Solomon's Tap to Tidy, with the 2019-published illustrated title selling 17,529 copies last week. Four of the top five Hardback Non-Fiction bestsellers were Ebury titles, including Sarah Harding's Hear Me Out and Michael Rosen's Many Different Kinds of Love.
Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) and Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun (Faber) held the Original Fiction top two, though Harlen Coben's Win (Century), Ben Aaronovitch's What Abigail Did That Summer (Gollancz) and Peter Robinson's Not Dark Yet (Hodder & Stoughton) thundered into the top five.
Nancy Revell's The Shipyard Girls at the Front (Arrow) was the second-highest new entry in the Mass-Market Fiction chart, after The Sentinel, charting third with 11,075 copies sold.
Jeff Kinney's Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories (Puffin) was the highest new entry in the Children's chart, with Katie Kirby's The Extremely Embarrassing Life of Lottie Brooks (Puffin) also debuting in 12th place, amid a flurry of Easter-themed entries.
