Daily Archives: May 11, 2010

Irish Top Ten

Irish Top Ten Week Ending 09/05/2010

May 11, 2010 – 5:57 pm

A very impressive result for Poolbeg with two books in the top ten, though the volumes this week are low. Claudia Carroll also makes the list and good to see a nice spread of authors represented in the chart this week.

1: House Rules, Jodi Picoult, 1,453
2: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, Stieg Larsson, 1,265
3: The Whisperers, John Connolly, 1,244
4: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson, 1,221
5: The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson, 1,000
6: Hard Girls, Martina Cole, 681
7: Personally, I Blame My Fairy Godmother, Claudia Carroll, 655
8: The Seven Secrets of Happiness, Sharon Owens, 632
9: Casa Clara, Kate McCabe, 535
10: Genesis, Karin Slaughter, 534

Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 8th May 2010

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News

Gately's Posthumous Title To Make Chart?

May 11, 2010 – 9:04 am

The Belfast Telegraph is reporting that Stephen Gately‘s posthumous first novel, a young-adult title called The Tree of Seasons, may well debut in the charts:

More than 15,000 copies of ‘The Tree of Seasons’ have been pre-ordered — 10,000 in Ireland and 5,000 in Britain — according to its publishers.

That level of sales in Ireland would put the book straight into the top three next week

The book was finished by fellow Boyzone member Ronan Keating after Gately’s death in October 2009 and is published by Hodder UK.

Read more on the Belfast Telegraph site.