The Orange has also recently turned its focus to debut writers. Winner of the Orange Prize for New Writers, Irene Sabatini thanked the mobile phone sponsor since her novel—The Boy Next Door (Sceptre)—had "never been reviewed" and might have "disappeared" without the shortlisting. The bestselling New Writers' winner has sold upwards of 50,000 copies.
With a month to go until the release of "Twilight" threequel "Eclipse", Meyer's spin-off The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (Atom) sold 79 copies a minute on its first day on sale in the UK, although there are some reports from indies in the US that the free download version is impeding sales.
Finally an evaluation of this year's World Book Day have presented a mixed picture, with adult fiction sales boosted 3% during the seven-week period by the inaugural Buy One Give One Free initiative, the children's book market volume "maintained", but sales of WBD £1 books down on last year. Some independent booksellers told us this week that the promotion needed a "rethink". You can have your say online at theBookseller.com.
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Most reviewed this week |
1. The Alastair Campbell Diaries by Alastair Campbell (Hutchinson, 1st June, £25, hb, 9780091797263)
2. Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel (Canongate, 3rd June, £15.99, hb, 9781847677655)
3. The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe (Viking, 27th May, £12.99, hb, 9780670918799)
4. The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick (Bodley Head, 3rd June, £20, hb, 9781847920096)
5. Africa United by Steve Bloomfield (Canongate, 20th May, £12.99, hb, 9781847676580)
6. Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay (Picador, 4th June, £16.99, hb, 978-0330451055)
7. On Evil by Terry Eagleton (Yale University Press, 31st May, £14.99, hb, 9780300151060)
8. The Real Kate by Charlotte Chandler (J R Books, 25th June, £20, hb, 9781907532016)
9. The Man on Devil's Island by Ruth Harris (Allen Lane, 3rd June, £30, hb, 9780713997309)
10. The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna (Faber, 20th May, £12.99, hb, 9780571245178) |
In the media this weekend
The Bridge Project is back at the Old Vic until 21st August for its reputation-cementing second year, with "The Tempest" and "As You Like It" chosen as this year's productions. Sharing an ensemble cast of American and British actors, this annual NYLon celebration of classics is fast becoming a real event on the theatrical scene. Oxford World's Classics and Penguin Classics among others, publish Shakespeare's prose.
Black Dog Publishing is exploring the cultural history of advertising imagery through both an exhibition at Black Dog Space in central London from tomorrow [Friday 11th June] through till 13th August, and the release of a hardback tie-in Modern British Posters: Art, Design & Communication. Both focus on posters which blur the
line between commercial art and a new era of graphic design, including the work of artists such as Paul Nash and Edward Bawden.
On TV and radio it's impossible to avoid the plethora of World Cup footage this weekend, excellent news for those with official and unoffical tie-ins and football titles.
But there's also a host of literary diversions for those with no interest in the beautiful game, including "Sense and Sensibility" on C4 on Saturday, and on Sunday, all six instalments of the 1995 Emmy-winning adaptation of Austen's Pride & Prejudice plus the 2007 version of Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes on Watch. For foodies or just a bit of peace and quiet, a new season of "River Cottage" begins on C4, while BBC2 has "Miss Potter", the story of the life of the creator of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter.
On Sunday, BBC Radio 4 reaches the finale of its epic John le Carré season with the first of a three-part adaptation of The Secret Pilgrim (Sceptre), plus Jonathan Coe will be discussing his The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim (Viking) on "Open Book".
On the rise
books moving up the chart
The accelerators
Philip Stone, charts editor: The school holidays once again had a dramatic effect on sales of books for children, not least Dr Miranda MacQuitty's Kids Only guide to the Natural History Museum, which tops this week's accelerators list.
The Imperial War Museum Duxford Souvenir Guide appears in the Top 10 for similar school holiday reasons. The museum opened a new photographic exhibition in April, and has a "Meet the Veterans" weekend lined up for late July.
With TV series "FlashForward" coming to an end on Five last week, sales of the book (by Robert J Sawyer) on which it is based jumped 193% week-on-week, while sales of E B Sledge's 1981 memoir, With the Old Breed, leapt for similar reasons—the author is portrayed by Joseph Mazzello in the TV series "The Pacific" which came to an end on Sky last week.
Meanwhile, tills were ringing with Bryan Lee O'Malley's graphic novel Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life: Volume One, which increased by 152% following the release of the trailer to the silver-screen adaptation (due in August).
Pos Growth Title Author Imprint
1. 318% Kids Only MacQuitty, Dr Miranda Natural History Museum
2. 301% The Desert Princes Kendrick, Sharon Mills & Boon
3. 238% The Case for Working with Your . . . Crawford, Matthew B Viking
4. 193% FlashForward Sawyer, Robert J Gollancz
5. 171% With the Old Breed Sledge, E B Ebury
6. 152% Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life . . . O'Malley, Bryan Lee Fourth Estate
7. 150% Imperial War Museum Duxford . . . — Imperial War Museum
8. 123% The Killer Inside Me Thompson, Jim Orion
9. 115% Ultimate Warrior Workouts Rooney, Martin HarperCollins
10. 110% Our Iceberg is Melting Kotter & Rathgeber Macmillan |
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The accelerators chart comprises books that have been out for at least two full weeks and have experienced the biggest week-on-week sales boost. All data derived from Nielsen BookScan
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Charlotte Williams writes: At The Old Hall Bookshop in Brackley, Northants, they have reason to feel a little bit ahead of the game: "We chose The Lacuna for one of our book clubs this Tuesday, actually ahead of its Orange Prize win. We're quite pleased about that," says assistant manager Carey Percival, adding that they expect sales of Barbara Kingsolver's novel (Faber) to really pick up now. She adds that, out of the shortlist, Black Water Rising by Attica Locke (Serpent's Tail) has been the strongest-seller.
Of the bookshop and its customers, Percival says: "We are a market town bookshop, so anything to do with country-based pursuits sells really well; and we have a lot of book groups, and a lot of professional people living in the town, with quite literary tastes".
In non-fiction this week, sales of RHS Take Chelsea Home Home (Mitchell Beazley) have been blooming for the shop after the annual flower show, and the shop is also championing Food for Friends and Family by prize-winning food writer Sarah Raven (Bloomsbury): "It's a lovely, colourful book–we think it's great and we expect it to do really well," says Percival.
And in children's, art is mimicking life, as Dog Loves Books! by Louise Yates (Red Fox), a picture book about a dog with his own bookshop, is a hit this week with younger buyers.
If you would like to contribute to book buzz please email katie.allen@bookseller.co.uk |
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tomorrow’s bestsellers this week
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Key books published this week
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Always the Children |
Anne Watts |
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Simon & Schuster, 27th June, hb, 9781847376428 |
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Broadcast: BBC Radio 4 “Midweek”, Magic FM book club, local radio
Print: Yours, Guardian Family (26th June)
Print interviews: Daily Mail, Times, Sun, Daily Record, Independent on Sunday, Woman’s Weekly, Big Issue, Western Daily,
Print reviews: Mail on Sunday, BA High Life, Lighter Life, Choice, Cornish Times, North Wales News, Manchester Evening News, Liverpool Evning Post
Print extract & feature: The Lady (22nd June)
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Jelly with Bompas & Parr |
Sam Bompas & Harry Parr |
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Pavilion, 21st June, hb, 9781862058798 |
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Print: Sunday Telegraph Stella magazine (13th June); Saturday Times Magazine (June); Daily Telegraph; Daily Mail Weekend food column; Vogue (July); Aga Living (August); Elle Decoration (August); Homes & Gardens (August); Wired (September); Waitrose Kitchen
Print interviews: Sunday Times Style; Easy Living (October)
Online: guardian.co.uk (16th June)
Broadcast: UKTV Food “Market Kitchen” (September)
Author events: Experimental Food Society’s inaugural talk (17th June); 300 Dish Dessert Outdoor Banquet at Kenilworth Castle (end June); Surreal House Exhibition Barbican (end June);
Marketing: W H Smiths, London Selfridges (July); Waterstone’s (summer promotion)
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Good Times! |
Justin Lee Collins |
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Ebury Press, 10th June, pb, 9780091932923 |
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Author events: Ebury are focusing on independent bookshops for the paperback release of Collins’ autobiography. He will be signing at The Falmouth Bookseller (15th June, 2pm); The Torbay Bookshop (16th June, 4.30pm) and Walter Henry’s Bookshop, Biddeford (17th June, 4pm)
Press: Local press, BBC Devon and BBC Cornwall, reviews in national press |
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Stories |
Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio |
Headline Review, 15th June, hb, 978-0755336609
An Anthology of imaginative fiction (as opposed, they say, to realistic fiction). The stories won’t be “dictated by genre” say the co-editors, rather sternly. Contributors include Chuck Palahnuik, Diana Wynne Jones, Jodi Picoult, Joanne Harris and Gaiman himself.
BookScan ★★★★ |
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The White Cat |
Holly Black |
Gollancz, 17th June, hb, 9780575096714 |
Best known as the author of the Spiderwick Chronicles, and three other YA novels, this is Black’s first adult fantasy. Magic has been prohibited since 1929 and those with the ability to use it have been driven underground—and into crime. Cassel is the son of one of America’s top families and despised as the only one in the family who can’t do magic. But he's about to discover his real inheritance . . .
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Asia Overland: Tales of Travel on the Trans-Siberian & Silk Road |
Bijan Omrani |
Odyssey Books, out now, £19.95, pb, 9789622178113 |
A combination of travel guide and history which will appeal to both active and armchair travellers alike. Author Omrani covers Eurasia’s great land routes, the Silk Road—from Peking to Constantinople—and the Trans-Siberian railway, looking at their origins and history as well as the present day. Gorgeously illustrated with 271 colour photographs, 154 b&w plus 27 maps. |
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Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy and Escape from Tibet |
Jonathan Green |
Public Affairs, 17th June, £15.99, hb, 9781586487140 |
In 2006, two European climbers witnessed the murder of a young Tibetan nun at the hands of Chinese border guards as she tried to cross into Nepal to seek counsel from the Dalai Lama. They decided to risk their careers to tell the world: and this is their compelling story. Ridley Scott plans to film it.
BookScan N/R |
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Choice |
Renata Salecl |
Profile, 17th June, £17.99, pb, 9781846681929 |
Surrounded by choice in every area of our lives, this seeming freedom can create extreme anxiety and feelings of guilt: a tyranny that leads only to ever-greater disquiet, says the author of this thought-provoking addition to Profile’s Big Ideas series.
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Portraits and Persons |
Cynthia Freeland |
OUP, 17th June, hb, £14.99, 9780199234981 |
What do portraits tell us? A leading art philosopher aims to demonstrate that they are a fundamental way of looking at ourselves and others, raising profound questions about our identity.
Book Scan N/S
The ratings are based on the author's previous sales in similar format. Five stars means sales above 50,000; four means sales between 25,000 and 49,999; three equates to sales between 10,000 and 24,999; two stars means sales between 5,000 and 9,999, while one star means sales between 3,000 and 4,999. N/S mean fewer than 3,000; N/R means no record. |
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