It’s definitely christmas time. Guinness World Records has joined the top ten list for the first time this week with some 1,049 sales. In fact every title in the top ten sold over 1,000 units.
Penguin will be happy still with their sales even if they don’t dominate quite as much as the did a few weeks ago, they still have three titles in the top ten.
And Faber‘s entry to the Top Ten comes after Fintan O’Toole engaged in a sustained promotional week appearing in many of the radio panels on RTE and other outlets.
Interestingly, Hachette Book Group Ireland score a number 7 slot with their John Giles memoir a title that’s certain to keep selling in the run into christmas. Irish publisher, Gill & Macmillan will be pleased to see their Soundings selling so well.
Perhaps the strangest entry to the top ten, but one that fantasy and science fiction readers will not be surprised by is the Brandon Sanderson penned Towers of Midnight, the second of three parts of the last volume of The Wheel Of Time, a series begun by Robert Jordan in the 1980s and the first volume of which was published in 1990.
1: Jamie’s 30-minute Meals, Jamie Oliver, 1,721
2: JFK in Ireland:Four Days That Changed a President, Ryan Tubridy, 1,707
3: Wasters, Shane Ross & Nick Webb, 1,544
4: Towers of Midnight, Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson, 1,438
5: The Oh My God Delusion, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, 1,373
6: Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic, Fintan O’Toole, 1,311
7: John Giles a Football Man, John Giles, 1,309
8: Soundings: Poems We Did for Our Leaving Certificate, 1,272
9: Room, Emma Donoghue, 1,087
10: Guinness World Records 2011, ,1,049
Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 6th November 2010