Irish Bestsellers 25th June 2022

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2 July 2022

Welcome back to this week’s round up of bestselling books in Ireland. Not many changes this week, but there are a couple of new releases in the Top 20. At no. 5 (no. 1 in Hardback Non-Fiction) we have Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale by Sean O’Driscoll, a great choice for history lovers. And at no. 2 (no. 1 in Original Fiction) we have a brand new book from Karin Slaughter, Girl, Forgotten – excellent title! We’re also welcoming back a long-term favourite to the Top 20; Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens is enjoying a re-appearance, perhaps helped by the recent release of the trailer for the upcoming film adaptation (which looks excellent).

This week’s featured book is a recent release from Lucinda Riley, The Murders at Fleat House, which is currently at no. 6 in Original Fiction and no. 19 in the Top 20. Here’s the blurb:

The Murders at Fleat House is a suspenseful and utterly compelling crime novel from the author of the multimillion-selling The Seven Sisters series, Lucinda Riley.

The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen’s – a small private boarding school in deepest Norfolk – is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident.

But the local police cannot rule out foul play and the case prompts the return of high-flying Detective Inspector Jazmine ‘Jazz’ Hunter to the force. Jazz has her own private reasons for stepping away from her police career in London, and reluctantly agrees to front the investigation as a favour to her old boss.

Reunited with her loyal sergeant Alastair Miles, she enters the closed world of the school, and as Jazz begins to probe the circumstances surrounding Charlie Cavendish’s tragic death, events are soon to take another troubling turn.

Charlie is exposed as an arrogant bully, and those around him had both motive and opportunity to switch the drugs he took daily to control his epilepsy.

As staff at the school close ranks, the disappearance of young pupil Rory Millar and the death of an elderly classics master provide Jazz with important leads, but are destined to complicate the investigation further. As snow covers the landscape and another suspect goes missing, Jazz must also confront her personal demons . . .

Then, a particularly grim discovery at the school makes this the most challenging murder investigation of her career. Because Fleat House hides secrets darker than even Jazz could ever have imagined . . .

And now this week’s bestseller lists, with the Top 20 followed by the Top 10 in each category.

	Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 25th June 2022
	Title	Author	Publisher Group	Sales
1	It Ends With Us	Hoover, Colleen	Simon & Schuster Grp	1,083
2	Girl, Forgotten	Slaughter, Karin	HarperCollins Grp	948
3	Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo	Reid, Taylor Jenkins	Simon & Schuster Grp	851
4	Idol	O’Neill, Louise	Transworld Grp	789
5	Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber	O’Driscoll, Sean	Penguin Grp	767
6	World’s Worst Pets,The	Walliams, David	HarperCollins Grp	735
7	Where the Crawdads Sing	Owens, Delia	Little, Brown Book Grp	734
8	Beautiful World, Where Are You	Rooney, Sally	Faber Grp	687
9	Ugly Love	Hoover, Colleen	Simon & Schuster Grp	636
10	Heartstopper Volume 1:	Oseman, Alice	Hachette Children’s Grp	611
11	Normal People	Rooney, Sally	Faber Grp	541
12	Perfect Lie,The	Spain, Jo	Quercus Grp	515
13	Summer I Turned Pretty,The	Han, Jenny	Penguin Grp	507
14	Verity	Hoover, Colleen	Little, Brown Book Grp	504
15	Last to Disappear,The	Spain, Jo	Quercus Grp	482
16	Lessons in Chemistry	Garmus, Bonnie	Transworld Grp	469
17	Paris Apartment,The	Foley, Lucy	HarperCollins Grp	465
18	Heartstopper Volume 2	Oseman, Alice	Hachette Children’s Grp	455
19	Murders at Fleat House,The	Riley, Lucinda	Pan Macmillan Grp	423
20	Heartstopper Volume 3	Oseman, Alice	Hachette Children’s Grp	415

	Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 25th June 2022
Mass Market Fiction
	Title	Author	Imprint	Sales
1	It Ends With Us	Hoover, Colleen	Simon & Schuster Ltd	1,083
2	Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo	Reid, Taylor Jenkins	Simon & Schuster Ltd	851
3	Where the Crawdads Sing	Owens, Delia	Corsair	734
4	Beautiful World, Where Are You	Rooney, Sally	Faber & Faber	653
5	Ugly Love	Hoover, Colleen	Simon & Schuster Ltd	636
6	Normal People	Rooney, Sally	Faber & Faber	541
7	Perfect Lie,The	Spain, Jo	Quercus Publishing Plc	515
8	Verity	Hoover, Colleen	Sphere	504
9	Man Who Died Twice,The:(The Thursday Murder Club 2)	Osman, Richard	Penguin Books Ltd	403
10	Conversations with Friends	Rooney, Sally	Faber & Faber	397
Original Fiction
	Title	Author	Imprint	Sales
1	Girl, Forgotten	Slaughter, Karin	HarperCollins Publishers	948
2	Idol	O’Neill, Louise	Bantam Press	789
3	Last to Disappear,The	Spain, Jo	Quercus Publishing Plc	482
4	Lessons in Chemistry	Garmus, Bonnie	Doubleday	469
5	Paris Apartment,The	Foley, Lucy	HarperCollins Publishers	465
6	Murders at Fleat House,The	Riley, Lucinda	Macmillan	423
7	Again, Rachel	Keyes, Marian	Michael Joseph	398
8	Life Before Us	Meaney, Roisin	Hachette Books Ireland	366
9	Gin Sisters’ Promise,The	Hogan, Faith	Aria	362
10	Mother’s Heart,A	Harrington, Carmel	HarperCollins Publishers	358
Paperback Non Fiction
	Title	Author	Imprint	Sales
1	Atomic Habits	Clear, James	Random House Business Books	384
2	Good Vibes, Good Life	King, Vex	Hay House UK Ltd	321
3	How to Be Your Own Therapist	O’Kane, Owen	HQ	258
4	Putin’s People:How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West	Belton, Catherine	William Collins	246
5	Fight Or Flight	Earls, Keith	Reach Sport	226
6	Great Hatred:The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP	McGreevy, Ronan	Faber & Faber	224
7	Freezing Order	Browder, Bill	Simon & Schuster Ltd	219
8	100 Poems	Heaney, Seamus	Faber & Faber	214
9	Between Two Hells:The Irish Civil War	Ferriter, Diarmaid	Profile Books	202
10	Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?	O’Reilly, Seamas	Fleet	181
Hardback Non Fiction
	Title	Author	Imprint	Sales
1	Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber	O’Driscoll, Sean	Sandycove	767
2	Veg Box,The:10 Vegetables, 10 Ways	Flynn, David & Flynn, Stephen	Penguin Life	360
3	Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse,The	Mackesy, Charlie	Ebury Press	330
4	Becoming Molly-Mae	Hague, Molly-Mae	Ebury Spotlight	317
5	Manifest	Nafousi, Roxie	Michael Joseph	297
6	Gardening Together	Gavin, Diarmuid & Smyth, Paul	Gill Books	281
7	Climb with Charlie	Bird, Charlie	Merrion Press	205
8	We Don’t Know Ourselves:A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958	O’Toole, Fintan	Head of Zeus	144
9	Chums:How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK	Kuper, Simon	Profile Books	144
10	Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?	Smith, Dr Julie	Michael Joseph	131
Childrens
	Title	Author	Imprint	Sales
1	World’s Worst Pets,The	Walliams, David	HarperCollins	735
2	Heartstopper Volume 1	Oseman, Alice	Hodder Children’s Books	611
3	Summer I Turned Pretty,The	Han, Jenny	Penguin Books Ltd	507
4	Heartstopper Volume 2	Oseman, Alice	Hodder Children’s Books	455
5	Heartstopper Volume 3	Oseman, Alice	Hodder Children’s Books	415
6	Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose: A Graphic Novel	Pilkey, Dav	Scholastic U.S.	381
7	Heartstopper Volume 4	Oseman, Alice	Hodder Children’s Books	356
8	Solitaire	Oseman, Alice	HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks	345
9	Nick and Charlie:A Heartstopper novella	Oseman, Alice	HarperCollins	293
10	Good Girl’s Guide to Murder,A	Jackson, Holly	Electric Monkey	240