UK Book Chart: Roberts Takes Top Spot, Easter Titles Surge

Roberts and Collins take the top 2 ports in the Kid’s Top 20 with The Dinosaur that Pooped Easter by Dougie Poyner, Tom Fletcher and illustrator Garry Parsons (Puffin) taking third place, following a 46.1% surge in week-on-week sales.

Original Fiction Chart Highlights

The Original Fiction graph sees an avalanche of new releases today with seven out of the leading eight being released in the past seven days. At the top of the pile is This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara (Hodderscape) and Firebird from Juliette Cross (Tor Bramble), both earning their places thanks to looks in the most up to date FairyLoot subscription boxes.

If anybody assumed the romantasy pattern of 2024 was going to disappear in 2025, they have actually been confirmed incorrect– once again– as today’s leading slot of the Authorities UK Top 50 is taken by Lauren Roberts’Brave (Simon & Schuster), according to the current data from Nielsen Bookscan’s Overall Customer Market.

Mass Market Fiction Dominance

Lee and Andrew Youngster go down a location in the total Top 50 to 3rd however maintained their leading area in the Mass Market Fiction (MMF) graph with In Too Deep (Transworld), despite a sales decline of 29.6% compared to the previous week. Elif Shafak holds onto 2nd location for second week with There Are Rivers in the Sky (Penguin).

This notes Roberts’ 2nd overall leading– after Reckless (Simon & Schuster Children’s) declared the leading area in July 2024. And it is the first time among Roberts’ titles has actually had its initial layout in hardback– yet that hasn’t place readers off with very first week sales up 13.3% versus the very first week of Reckless released in book last summer season.

Non-Fiction Chart Update

There’s no move on top of the Book Non-Fiction chart as Gary Stevenson claimed an 11th week at leading with The Trading Game (Penguin). But it was a close-run point as the gap between second and first was less than 300 duplicates, with Jonn Elledge’s A History of the World in 47 Boundaries (Heading) climbing 14.9% to 4,155 duplicates sold.

Anthony Horowitz takes 3rd setting– and is the just various other Fiction hardback title to appear in the overall leading 50– with Marble Hall Murders (Century) offering 5,888 duplicates up 74.4% compared with 2024’s Close to Death.

Hardback Non-Fiction Bestseller

The Hardback Non-Fiction chart sees a brand-new title at the top of the charts with Soph’s Plant Kitchen (Yellow Kite) from Instagram influencer and individual trainer Sophie Waplington earning very first week sales of 5,498 duplicates, simply 79 devices in advance of second-placed Jamie Oliver’s Easy Air Fryer (Michael Joseph), which itself has actually seen sales jump 19.9% week-on-week.

This weeks’ highest new MMF access comes from Peter James’ One of United States Is Dead (Frying Pan)– the 20th Roy Poise thriller– which captivated 9,073 individuals in its very first week. It’s a mixed efficiency for the Brighton-based investigative due to the fact that, while sales are up 9.5% compared to the very first week of spin-off They Thought I Was Dead, released in November 2024, total quantity is down 26% when compared with last April’s book, Stop Them Dead.

In total, the 10 Easter-themed titles in the Official Top 50 today have actually sold a total of 57,774 duplicates– a number that’s expanded 12.3% compared with the previous seven days and will surely expand again in the final week before Easter.