Indie Bookshop Charts: Sturgeon’s ‘frankly’ Tops, Ku

The Opponent’s Child shows up 201 areas higher in the Indie Top 20 versus its total TCM port, yet it is not the most significant over-indexer. That title is granted to Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake (Vintage) which has returned to the Indie Bookshop graph in 16th location, 342 positions greater than its position in the TCM information.

Indie Charts Dominated

Instead, the former Scottish First Priest has declared the top place, despite a high price factor of ₤ 28. While NielsenIQ does not disclose the sales numbers for the Indie Bookshops graph, its information for the full-market chart revealed that more than 3 quarters of Frankly’s sales went to stores in Scotland, so it could well be the case that Scotland’s indie bookshops have also over-indexed to a comparable extent.

While Entitled (William Collins), Andrew Lownie’s biography of Prince Andrew, has actually won the fight versus Nicola Sturgeon’s Frankly (Macmillan) by claiming starting point in the TCM chart, it is noticeable only by its lack in the Independent Bookshop Top 20, according to the most up to date data from NielsenIQ BookData.

New Indie Releases

The second-highest brand-new launch in the Indie Bookshop Top 20 sees a rare 3rd location for a Secured Collection title– HarperFire’s The Enemy’s Little girl by Melissa Poett. The average selling price with indies of ₤ 21.57 is substantially greater than its ₤ 16.99 RRP; as it reports a similar ASP in the main TCM where it has actually offered 1,471 copies, it is likely that most of those sales went through HarperCollins subscription service.

Jack Clark and Alice Fischer from Portobello Bookshop in Edinburgh stated: “Frankly was among our many prepared for titles of 2025 and is already our best-selling publication of the summer season. We were fortunate to invite Nicola Sturgeon to the bookshop before magazine to sign and customise thousands of pre-orders, and were gone to by lots of excited clients that concerned accumulate their pre-ordered duplicate on publication day.

Portobello Bookshop Success

“Since then, Frankly has actually been flying off our shelves, and so have tickets for our event with Sturgeon in the autumn. Nicola is a massive fan of independent bookshops and it’s wonderful to see Truthfully topping the graphes today.”

Recently’s indie number one The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Penguin) has actually fallen to 2nd area, however still sits nine places more than its equal placement in the NielsenIQ’s Overall Customer Market (TCM), where the Female’s Prize for Fiction winner’s total sales have actually dropped 9% week-on-week.