CHARTS
TOP 50
THE UK’S OFFICIAL
Pos LW Title Author Publisher ISBN Pub date RRP ASP Units Total
1 1 � No Time for Goodbye Barclay, Linwood Orion 9780752893686 Jun 08 £7.99 £5.10 35,597 328,963
2 1,023 � Breaking Dawn Meyer, Stephenie Atom 9781905654284 Aug 08 £12.99 £8.59 32,452 32,925
3 14 � The Final Reckoning Bourne, Sam Harper 9780007266494 Aug 08 £6.99 £3.97 29,045 44,135
4 – � Exit Music Rankin, Ian Orion 9780752893518 Aug 08 £7.99 £4.10 27,099 27,148
5 2 � The Sleeping Doll Deaver, Jeffery Hodder 9780340833865 Jul 08 £6.99 £4.11 22,781 81,316
6 209 � Goodnight, Beautiful Koomson, Dorothy Sphere 9780751539813 Aug 08 £6.99 £4.22 19,168 21,064
7 7 � East of the Sun Gregson, Julia Orion 9781409102519 Jun 08 £7.99 £5.04 17,836 170,894
8 5 � My Booky Wook Brand, Russell Hodder 9780340936177 Jul 08 £7.99 £4.93 16,619 107,549
9 10 � The Outcast Jones, Sadie Vintage 9780099513421 Jun 08 £7.99 £5.41 16,015 197,197
10 15 � The Ghost Harris, Robert Arrow 9780099527497 Jul 08 £7.99 £5.76 15,842 128,497
11 4 � Name to a Face Goddard, Robert Corgi 9780552152129 Jul 08 £6.99 £4.31 15,770 49,770
12 243 � My Favourite Wife Parsons, Tony Harper 9780007226498 Aug 08 £6.99 £4.04 15,672 17,340
13 6 � The Quickie Patterson & Ledwidge Headline 9780755335725 Jul 08 £7.99 £4.43 15,427 107,707
14 11 � The Forgotten Garden Morton, Kate Pan 9780330449601 Jun 08 £7.99 £5.53 14,997 236,255
15 3 � The Pirate’s Daughter Cezair-Thompson, M Headline Review 9780755343591 Jun 08 £7.99 £4.84 14,719 115,792
16 226 � Glitz Bagshawe, Louise Headline Review 9780755336074 Aug 08 £6.99 £4.13 14,298 16,062
17 9 � The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Miller, Rebecca Canongate 9781847672490 Jun 08 £7.99 £5.51 14,116 74,527
18 8 � Coming Up Next Smith, Penny HarperPerennial 9780007268894 Jul 08 £6.99 £3.89 13,017 47,471
19 1,180 � Got You Back Fallon, Jane Penguin 9780141034409 Aug 08 £6.99 £4.27 12,712 13,127
20 70 � Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox Colfer, Eoin Puffin 9780141383330 Aug 08 £12.99 £7.61 12,698 17,179
21 12 � Second Chance Green, Jane Penguin 9780141021737 Jun 08 £7.99 £4.73 11,936 194,936
22 13 � An Offer You Can’t Refuse Mansell, Jill Headline 9780755328161 Jun 08 £6.99 £4.12 11,687 129,229
23 16 � The Overlook Connelly, Michael Orion 9780752882734 Jul 08 £6.99 £4.36 11,473 75,313
24 19 � Not in the Flesh Rendell, Ruth Arrow 9780099517221 Jul 08 £6.99 £4.69 11,382 29,500
25 34 � Chinese Food Made Easy Huang, Ching-He Harper 9780007264988 Jul 08 £16.99 £10.66 11,069 42,762
26 1,863 � Cry Silent Tears Peters, Joe Harper Element 9780007274062 Aug 08 £6.99 £4.04 10,710 10,989
27 75 � Addition Jordan, Toni Sceptre 9780340963777 Jun 08 £7.99 £5.22 10,515 31,633
28 17 � Deadline Kernick, Simon Corgi 9780552156608 Jul 08 £6.99 £4.27 10,378 71,858
29 376 � Centurion Scarrow, Simon Headline Review 9780755348367 Aug 08 £6.99 £4.41 10,135 11,714
30 67 � The Six Sacred Stones Reilly, Matthew Pan 9780330426589 Aug 08 £6.99 £4.39 9,742 14,466
31 22 � A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled Bloomsbury 9780747582977 May 07 £11.99 £9.73 9,510 808,008
32 23 � Horrid Henry Robs the Bank Simon, Francesca Orion 9781842551325 Jun 08 £4.99 £3.69 8,873 83,622
33 27 � The Resurrectionist Bradley, James Faber 9780571232765 Jun 08 £7.99 £4.90 8,830 62,096
34 18 � Angel Uncovered Price, Katie Century 9781846052408 Jul 08 £12.99 £8.33 8,774 84,143
35 25 � The Road Home Tremain, Rose Vintage 9780099478461 Jun 08 £7.99 £5.71 8,578 95,801
36 32 � Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging Rennison, Louise HarperCollins 9780007274673 Jun 08 £7.99 £5.51 8,105 41,748
37 24 � The Love of Her Life Evans, Harriet Harper 9780007243822 Jul 08 £6.99 £4.26 7,850 64,671
38 29 � Nowhere to Run Westwater, Judy Harper Element 9780007266647 Jul 08 £6.99 £4.09 7,728 39,205
39 21 � The First Apostle Becker, James Bantam 9780553819724 Jul 08 £6.99 £4.13 7,606 23,524
40 31 � Gangs Kemp, Ross Penguin 9780141032252 Jul 08 £6.99 £4.35 7,451 18,082
41 26 � Bungalow 2 Steel, Danielle Corgi 9780552151818 Jun 08 £6.99 £4.36 7,344 96,853
42 28 � The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Larsson, Stieg Quercus 9781847245458 Jul 08 £7.99 £4.52 7,246 24,893
43 20 � It’s a Kind of Magic Matthews, Carole Headline Review 9780755327676 Jul 08 £6.99 £4.39 7,183 23,618
44 62 � Twilight Meyer, Stephenie Atom 9781904233657 Sep 06 £6.99 £5.08 6,851 85,662
45 57 � A Family Betrayal Neale, Kitty Avon 9781847560223 Aug 08 £5.99 £3.66 6,808 14,706
46 36 � Stop in the Name of Pants! Rennison, Louise HarperCollins 9780007275830 Jul 08 £10.99 £7.50 6,794 41,816
47 30 � Lessons in Heartbreak Kelly, Cathy Harper 9780007240401 Jun 08 £6.99 £4.46 6,477 126,309
48 40 � Wife in the North O’Reilly, Judith Penguin 9780141033433 Jul 08 £7.99 £4.79 6,426 31,636
49 38 � Skeleton Coast Cussler and DuBrul Penguin 9780141021621 Jun 08 £6.99 £4.42 6,245 76,796
50 42 � Engleby Faulks, Sebastian Vintage 9780099458272 Mar 08 £7.99 £5.77 6,182 215,930
TOTAL CONSUMER MARKET FOR WEEK ENDING 09/08/08
BookScan TCM: £30.8m
+4.8% on last week
+4.8% on same week in 2007
+1.8% 12 months to date*
Units: 4,638,581 | Average selling price: £6.64 | General Retail Market: £18.1m
* versus previous 12 months
Charts on this and following pages are from the Nielsen BookScan (tel 01483 712222, www.nielsenbookscan.co.uk) Total Consumer Market, representing sales through about 8,500 high street, internet
and independent retailers. LW=position last week. RRP=recommended retail price; ASP=average selling price; Total=unit sales to date. Titles discounted by more than 50% of their r.r.p.s are ineligible.
Original fiction titles cost £8.50 and above. Heatseekers shows the sales ranking of authors who have not appeared in the Top 50 chart since January 1998. Heatseekers titles cost £5 and above.
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