Indie Bookshop Top 20: Herron’s ‘Clown Town’ Takes Top Spot

Mick Herron's 'Clown Town' tops the Indie Bookshop Top 20. Other new entries include McEwan, Balding, and Tokarczuk. Indies champion authors and drive sales with signed copies. The Bookseller adjusted the chart.

New Releases Impact Indie Bookshop Chart

In spite of being published on 11th September, Pastures New from Clare Balding (HarperCollins) just makes its mark on the Indie Bookshop Top 20 in its second week on sale– it is really the highest-placed of four publications going into the chart in their second week, including Alexander Armstrong’s Evenfall (Farshore) in 14th position, and the TCM number one Consume Yourself Healthy and balanced by Jamie Oliver in 16th area in the ranking.

Along with Oliver and McEwan, there are only two other books from the TCM Top 20 which appear in the Indie Bookshop Top 20– Nikita Gill’s Hekate (Simon & Schuster) has actually debuted with indies in 9th area, 8 spots greater than its setting in the Authorities Top 50– while it is a specific match for David Nicholls’ You Are Below (Hodder) as it shows up in 11th location in both charts.

Bookseller Adjusts Independent Bookshop Chart

The complete Independent Bookshop Top 20 can be located on The Bookseller’s bestseller pages. The Bookseller has adjusted the Independent Bookshop graph to eliminate some titles where sales do not stem from standard bricks-and-mortar bookshops, such as event catalogues and those included on membership boxes.

Herron holds back three new releases– including Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know (Jonathan Cape) which takes 2nd location, executing a little much better in the indie ranking than the UK Top 50 where it debuted in 8th.

Indies Champion Authors: A Success Story

On Clown Town’s success Mel Griffin from Lion Books in Penarth claimed: “Our signed duplicates of Mick Herron’s newest, Clown Community, have absolutely been flying off the shelves, so I’m never surprised at its bestseller condition. We’re so enjoyed see that happen, having hosted an event with Mick in the very early days of the Slough Residence series when he was not nearly so well known. He discovered as very moderate and humble after that, and by all accounts is all the same currently, despite his dizzying success.

Tokarczuk’s Over-Indexing Publication

The 4th of these publications is the greatest over-indexing publication for Indies– Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, Home of Night converted by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Fitzcarraldo Versions) has gotten in the Indie Bookshop Top 20 in 19th placement– some 294 placements greater than its TCM placing.

“We still hand sell Slow Steeds constantly based on its best mix of strong characters, interesting plot and dry humour, and consumers certainly return in no time for book 2 and beyond. It just demonstrates how indie bookshops can help champion a writer and expand a collection– and accessibility to authorized duplicates is definitely a big help in that procedure– keep ’em coming!”

In its second week on sale the most up to date Slough House thriller, Clown Community by Mick Herron (John Murray), has jumped one room and taken the leading spot in the Independent Bookshop Top 20– according to NielsenIQ BookData’s Total Consumer Market panel (TCM).