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Binchy takes top spot

16.09.08 Philip Stone

A stellar performance from Maeve Binchy's This Year it Will be Different sees Orion secure their tenth number one in 11 weeks. Binchy's collection of Christmas-themed short-stories sold 38,596 copies through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market during the seven days to 13th September, to take top spot from Orion stablemate Linwood Barclay's No Time for Goodbye.

Helped by a TV ad campaign, Elizabeth Noble's Things I Want My Daughters to Know (Penguin) has risen four places to take second position overall, while Terry Pratchett's Nation (Doubleday), based outside of his Discworld universe, rises five places to take third position overall.

The highest new entry into the Top 50, John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Definitions) sold almost 25,000 copies across all editions through the market last week thanks to the film adaptation's release at UK cinemas last weekend. The film tie-in edition alone sold 17,248 units last week to take eighth position overall.

Andy McNab's Seven Troop (Bantam Press), his first work of non-fiction since 1995's Immediate Action scores the highest hardback new entry in the Top 50, in another week of strong performances from non-fiction titles destined for the Christmas bestseller lists. But, although £31.3m was spent through the market last week, up £6,000 on last week, the market was, once again, down on last year by 1.8%.

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