Irish Bestsellers 26th March 2022

Welcome back to another week in the charts, where Marian Keyes is dominating the top of the Top 20 with the 25th anniversary edition of Rachel’s Holiday (in at no. 3) and grabbing the no. 1 spot with the sequel, Again, Rachel. Let’s see if this can become as well-loved as its big sister!

In other news, the Children’s chart is still heavily dominated by this year’s World Book Day titles, nearly a month after the big day – hopefully a sign of new young readers learning to enjoy books as much as we do!

This week’s featured book is a new release from Dublin author Gill Perdue. Brand new out just before these charts were compiled, The Interview has gone straight in at no. 14 in the Top 20, and at no. 7 in the Original Fiction Top 10. Here’s the blurb:

‘Thrilling and utterly compulsive’ LIZ NUGENT

A girl covered in blood. A missing man. A cryptic fairy tale.

Detective Laura Shaw seems to have it all: a supportive husband, a happy two-year-old and a great career. She is her team’s top interviewer, brilliant at coaxing victims to open up.

Then, she meets Jenny – a 14-year-old assault victim – and the façade crumbles. Jenny’s stepfather is missing, the blood on her clothes is not her own and Laura can’t interpret the fairy tale she keeps repeating.

But Jenny isn’t the only one with secrets. With every hour that passes, Laura loses more of her grip, grappling with the biggest question of all:

Is every life worth saving?

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‘Propulsive’ RTÉ GUIDE

‘An incredible read, impossible to put down. Gill Perdue is a fresh, assured new voice in Irish crime writing’ ANDREA MARA

‘Daringly dark and packs a huge emotional punch – an exceptional crime debut that lingers in the memory long after the last page’ CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD

‘Great, great, great – I am giving it a lot of love…read this one!’ RYAN TUBRIDY

‘Incredible storytelling’ ARLENE HUNT

‘Haunting and hypnotic’ PATRICIA GIBNEY

‘An intense, emotional and utterly compelling narrative’ JAKE ARNOTT

And now this week’s charts, with the Top 20 followed by the Top 10.

	Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 26th March 2022
	Title	Author	Publisher Group	Sales
1	Again, Rachel	Keyes, Marian	Penguin Grp	2,952
2	Paris Apartment,The	Foley, Lucy	HarperCollins Grp	1,484
3	Rachel’s Holiday	Keyes, Marian	Penguin Grp	925
4	It Ends With Us	Hoover, Colleen	Simon & Schuster Grp	920
5	Unspoken:A Father’s Wartime Escape. A Son’s Family Discovered	McGrath, Tom	Gill Group	875
6	Where the Crawdads Sing	Owens, Delia	Little, Brown Book Grp	869
7	Match,The	Coben, Harlan	Random House Grp	723
8	Deadly! Irish History: Fun with the Celts and the Vikings!	Farrelly, John	O’Brien Press Grp	622
9	Letter Home,The	English, Rachael	Hachette Books Ireland Grp	597
10	Run Rose Run	Parton, Dolly & Patterson, James	Random House Grp	583
11	The Wizard and Me: More Misadventures of Bubbles the Guinea Pig	Farnaby, Simon	Hachette Children’s Grp	578
12	Maid,The	Prose, Nita	HarperCollins Grp	577
13	Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo	Reid, Taylor Jenkins	Simon & Schuster Grp	571
14	Interview,The	Perdue, Gill	Penguin Grp	516
15	Atomic Habits	Clear, James	Random House Grp	513
16	Last Word,The:World Book Day 2022	Bailey Smith, Ben	Bloomsbury Grp	507
17	Hey Duggee: The World Book Day Badge:A World Book Day 2022 MINI BOOK		Penguin Grp	501
18	French Braid	Tyler, Anne	Random House Grp	493
19	Putin’s People:How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West	Belton, Catherine	HarperCollins Grp	493
20	Dinosaur Roar and Friends! : World Book Day 2022	Curtis, Peter & Willis, Jeanne	Pan Macmillan Grp	491

	Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 26th March 2022
Mass Market Fiction
	Title	Author	Imprint	Sales
1	Rachel’s Holiday	Keyes, Marian	Penguin Books Ltd	925
2	It Ends With Us	Hoover, Colleen	Simon & Schuster Ltd	920
3	Where the Crawdads Sing	Owens, Delia	Corsair	869
4	Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo	Reid, Taylor Jenkins	Simon & Schuster Ltd	571
5	Verity	Hoover, Colleen	Sphere	404
6	Three Weddings and a Proposal	O’Flanagan, Sheila	Headline Review	390
7	Ugly Love	Hoover, Colleen	Simon & Schuster Ltd	365
8	Magician,The	Tóibín, Colm	Penguin Books Ltd	348
9	Klara and the Sun	Ishiguro, Kazuo	Faber & Faber	310
10	Love Hypothesis,The	Hazelwood, Ali	Sphere	294
Original Fiction
	Title	Author	Imprint	Sales
1	Again, Rachel	Keyes, Marian	Michael Joseph	2,952
2	Paris Apartment,The	Foley, Lucy	HarperCollins Publishers	1,484
3	Match,The	Coben, Harlan	Century	723
4	Letter Home,The	English, Rachael	Hachette Books Ireland	597
5	Run Rose Run	Parton, Dolly & Patterson, James	Century	583
6	Maid,The	Prose, Nita	HarperCollins Publishers	577
7	Interview,The	Perdue, Gill	Sandycove	516
8	French Braid	Tyler, Anne	Chatto & Windus	493
9	Breaking Point	Coffey, Edel	Sphere	397
10	Twelve Secrets	Gold, Robert	Sphere	357
Paperback Non Fiction
	Title	Author	Imprint	Sales
1	Unspoken:A Father’s Wartime Escape. A Son’s Family Discovered	McGrath, Tom	Gill Books	875
2	Atomic Habits	Clear, James	Random House Business Books	513
3	Putin’s People:How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West	Belton, Catherine	William Collins	493
4	Vitality Mark,The	Rowe, Mark	Gill Books	417
5	Good Vibes, Good Life	King, Vex	Hay House UK Ltd	302
6	Philadelphia, Here I Come	Friel, Brian	Faber And Faber Plays	300
7	Lick and a Promise,A	May, Imelda	Faber Music	272
8	Your One Wild and Precious Life	Gaffney, Maureen	Penguin Life	247
9	How to Make Your Money Work:Decide what you want, plan to get there	McGee, Eoin	Gill Books	243
10	Age Proof:The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life	Kenny, Professor Rose Anne	Blink Publishing	228
Hardback Non Fiction
	Title	Author	Imprint	Sales
1	Manifest	Nafousi, Roxie	Michael Joseph	464
2	Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse,The	Mackesy, Charlie	Ebury Press	334
3	Feel Good Food:Over 100 Healthy Family Recipes	Wicks, Joe	HQ	269
4	Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?	Smith, Dr Julie	Michael Joseph	196
5	We Don’t Know Ourselves:A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958	O’Toole, Fintan	Head of Zeus	185
6	Fitwaffle’s Baking It Easy	Head, Eloise & Fitwaffle	Ebury Press	174
7	Burning the Big House	Dooley, Terence	Yale University Press	120
8	Atlas of the Heart	Brown, Brené	Vermilion	113
9	Thirty-Two Words for Field:Lost Words of the Irish Landscape	Magan, Manchán	Gill Books	112
10	Taste	Tucci, Stanley	Fig Tree	100
Childrens
	Title	Author	Imprint	Sales
1	Deadly! Irish History: Fun with the Celts and the Vikings!	Farrelly, John	O’Brien Press Ltd	622
2	The Wizard and Me: More Misadventures of Bubbles the Guinea Pig	Farnaby, Simon	Hodder Children’s Books	578
3	Last Word,The:World Book Day 2022	Bailey Smith, Ben	Bloomsbury Childrens Books	507
4	Hey Duggee: The World Book Day Badge:A World Book Day 2022 MINI BOOK		BBC Children’s Books	501
5	Dinosaur Roar and Friends! : World Book Day 2022	Curtis, Peter & Willis, Jeanne	Macmillan Children’s Books	491
6	Jemima the Pig and the 127 Acorns:World Book Day 2022	Morpurgo, Michael	HarperCollins	440
7	Think Like a Boss: Discover the skills that turn great ideas into CASH	Sirdeshpande, Rashmi	Wren & Rook	368
8	My Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Silly Book of True or False	Lucas, Matt	Farshore	363
9	Rocket Rules:A World Book Day 2022 Mini Book	Bryon, Nathan	Puffin	333
10	Peak Peril: World Book Day 2022:A High-Rise Mystery	Jackson, Sharna	Knights Of Media	325