Rose Area Tops Charts: Book Sales Surge on Super Thursday!

Philip Pullman's 'Rose Area' tops UK charts, boosting book sales by 8.8%. Morgan Housel leads Paperback Non-Fiction. New releases drive TCM growth despite slight dip from 2024.

6 years on from the previous instalment of Philip Pullman’s Book of Dust trilogy, The Rose Area (Penguin and David Fickling) has finally been released and gone straight to the top of the Official UK Top 50, according to the latest information from NielsenIQ BookData’s Total Consumer Market (TCM).

Super Thursday Boosts Book Sales

The arrival of one more Super Thursday has actually seen a favorable week for the TCM with volume sales rising 8.8% to 3.7 million copies, resulting in a worth boost of 9.8% to ₤ 37.3 m. It still is inadequate to take on 2024’s volume sales, though being available in down 2.5% with value performing better, up 2.8%, many thanks to an ASP of ₤ 10.08– 52p more than the same week in 2024.

Paperback Non-Fiction Chart Toppers

Morgan Housel replaces himself on top of the Paperback Non-Fiction graph as his 2020 release The Psychology of Cash (Harriman Home) reaches first place, regardless of a 7.7% reduction in sales as The Art of Money experiences a 38% decline, pushing it to 4th location.

Pullman’s Adult Number One

Pullman’s North Lights and Book of Dirt trilogies have actually always had a huge crossover charm, but this concluding component of the 2nd trilogy has actually been identified as Sci-fi & Fantasy by its authors– unlike the previous five instalments in Lyra’s Oxford which all sit in either Kid’s Fiction or Young person Fiction. This provides Pullman his initial adult number one title given that 2010’s The Good Male Jesus and the Creep Christ (Canongate).

Although complication over in which classification it rests has not obstructed its sales– total week one sales pertain to an excellent 49,878 duplicates, alhough perhaps the anticipation has actually shed Pullman some viewers– that number is down 9.2% compared to the very first week of The Secret Republic.

The memoir, co-written with Amy Wallace, which covers Giuffre’s experiences of misuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell has actually sold 27,171 duplicates in its initial week– and motivated a go back to the graphes for Andrew Lownie’s Royal prince Andrew biography Entitled (William Collins) which has actually seen its sales climb by 23% compared with the previous seven days to 5,461 copies.

Classification of The Rose Area as a grown-up title indicates that Jeff Kinney’s most recent Wimpy Child novel Partypooper (Puffin) has actually racked up top on the youngsters’s Top 20 with sales of 45,845 duplicates, though it only gets to 2nd area in the overall TCM. That is mixed information for Kinney– Warm Mess reached the pinnacle of the graph when it was released in 2024, but this 20th instalment in the collection has sold 21.4% more than its predecessor.

New Releases Impact Top 20

Partypooper and The Rose Field are simply 2 of 23 brand-new releases into the TCM Top 50, with 13 of those appearing in the Top 20– beating Super Thursday which saw 20 new releases– consisting of Always Remember (Ebury Press)by Charlie Mackesy, which is up to third place in the TCM in its 3rd week, although its sales have increased 80.2% to 31,422 duplicates, maybe benefitting from increased step as a result of the brand-new launches.

Various other brand-new entrances into the HBNF Top 20 include Nathan Anthony’s Bored of Lunch: Healthy And Balanced Fakeaways (Ebury Press) and Kathy Burke’s A Mind of My Own (Gallery), both of which additionally make it into the TCM Top 10 with greater than 10,000 duplicates marketed in their very first days on sale– although Anthony’s total amount of 19,278 duplicates is 63% lower than Bored of Lunch: 6 Ingredients which was launched in the very first week of December 2024.

The biggest book of this week just makes it to 11th location in the TCM– Sarah Morgan’s All Together for Christmas (HQ)has marketed 12,175 duplicates in its very first week, providing Morgan a 26.4% benefit over her previous festive release, The Christmas Cottage, in October 2024.