Elif Shafak flows into first place on the indie chart
NewsApr 9, 2025by Alex Call 
Elif Shafak © Ferhat Elik
This week sees three new releases at the top of the Independent Bookshop chart, led by Elif Shafak’s There are Rivers in the Sky (Penguin), which ranked four positions higher than it did in Nielsen BookScan’s wider Total Consumer Market (TCM).
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