UK Book Chart: Roberts’ ‘Fearless’ Tops, Easter Sales Surge!

Lee and Andrew Youngster go down a location in the overall Top 50 to third but preserved their top spot in the Mass Market Fiction (MMF) graph with In Too Deep (Transworld), regardless of a sales decrease 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).

Easter Book Sales Surge

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

Roberts and Collins take the top 2 slots 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, adhering to a 46.1% surge in week-on-week sales.

Hardback Non-Fiction Chart Topper

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

There’s no relocation on top of the Book Non-Fiction chart as Gary Stevenson asserted an 11th week at top with The Trading Game (Penguin). It was a close-run thing as the void between first and 2nd was fewer than 300 duplicates, with Jonn Elledge’s A History of the World in 47 Borders (Heading) rising 14.9% to 4,155 duplicates marketed.

Fiction Chart New Launches

The Initial Fiction chart sees an avalanche of new launches today with 7 out of the leading eight being published in the previous 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 gaining their locations many thanks to appearances in the latest FairyLoot membership boxes.

Roberts Tops UK Charts

If anybody thought the romantasy trend of 2024 was mosting likely to disappear in 2025, they have been verified wrong– once again– as today’s leading port of the Official UK Top 50 is taken by Lauren Roberts’Fearless (Simon & Schuster), according to the latest information from Nielsen Bookscan’s Total Customer Market.

This notes Roberts’ second overall top– after Reckless (Simon & Schuster Kid’s) claimed the leading area in July 2024. And it is the very first time among Roberts’ titles has had its first format in hardback– however that hasn’t put viewers off with very first week sales up 13.3% versus the first week of Careless released in paperback last summer season.

New MMF Entry: Peter James

Todays’ highest brand-new MMF entry comes from Peter James’ Among Us Is Dead (Frying Pan)– the 20th Roy Poise thriller– which entertained 9,073 people in its first week. It’s a blended performance for the Brighton-based detective since, while sales are up 9.5% compared to the first week of spin-off They Idea I Was Dead, released in November 2024, complete volume is down 26% when compared with last April’s paperback, Stop Them Dead.

Anthony Horowitz takes 3rd setting– and is the only various other Fiction hardback title to show up in the general top 50– with Marble Hall Murders (Century) offering 5,888 duplicates up 74.4% compared with 2024’s Near to Death.