
Christmas Bestseller Battle: Guinness, Oliver, Mackesy & More!
Guinness World Records faces tough competition for the Christmas bestseller title. Oliver, Mackesy, and Osman are strong contenders. Sales data and trends analyzed for top spots.

Guinness World Records faces tough competition for the Christmas bestseller title. Oliver, Mackesy, and Osman are strong contenders. Sales data and trends analyzed for top spots.

Indie bookshops see strong sales for Portas, Sapkowski, and Armitage, outperforming general market. Osman remains #1. Indie chart differs from TCM, with select titles showing significant differences.

Richard Osman tops Indie Top 20. Booker shortlist boosts sales. Indies show unique title performance vs. TCM, with notable over-indexing by some titles. Chart adjustments made by The Bookseller.

Crewe and Bourton added: “Greg Clowes [commissioning editor] joined us from Vintage [in 2022] to expand our narrative non-fiction – he’s recently published Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger and Cara McGoogan’s The Poison Line to universally stellar reviews, and they all have amazing acquisition announcements up their sleeves.”