Irish Bestsellers 29th August 2020

Not a huge amount of movement in the charts this week; the recent slew of releases is still doing well in the charts as well as favourites such as The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri and Conversations with Friends and Normal People, both by Sally Rooney and both high in the Mass Market Fiction chart. We also have a nod to the new school year, as John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men re-appears in the charts!

One notable new entry is in the Children’s chart, where Eoin McLaughlin’s book While We Can’t Hug is being read to children across both Ireland and the UK to help them understand a little of these unusual times.

This week’s featured book is from one of Ireland’s favourite authors at the moment. Donal Ryan’s new book Strange Flowers hit the shelves recently along with the charts, and this week is at nos. 1 and 6 of the Original Fiction Top 10, as well top of the Top 20. Here’s the blurb:

‘Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving’ David Nicholls

‘A triumph … the best novel I’ve read so far this year’ Joseph O’Connor

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In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.

Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again.

Five years later, Moll returns. What – and who – she brings with her will change the course of her family’s life forever.

Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today.

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‘Here is love as a weapon and a balm … A gorgeously wrought book’ Guardian

‘Outstanding … Tender and beautifully written‘ Independent

‘All the beauty and sorrow of life can be found in these pages’ Kathleen MacMahon

‘Exquisite … Beautiful‘ Anne Griffin, author of When All Is Said

‘Ryan gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them’ Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul

And now this week’s charts:

	Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 29th August 2020
	Title	Author	Publisher Group	Sales
1	Strange Flowers	Ryan, Donal	Transworld Grp	1,922
2	Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse,The	Mackesy, Charlie	Random House Grp	1,719
3	Dirty South,The	Connolly, John	Hodder & Stoughton Grp	1,360
4	Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Adventure	Kinney, Jeff	Penguin Grp	1,173
5	Where the Crawdads Sing	Owens, Delia	Little, Brown Book Grp	1,162
6	7 Ways:Easy Ideas for Every Day of the Week	Oliver, Jamie	Penguin Grp	1,031
7	Midnight Sun	Meyer, Stephenie	Little, Brown Book Grp	855
8	Moonflower Murders	Horowitz, Anthony	Random House Grp	831
9	Untamed:Stop pleasing, start living	Doyle, Glennon	Random House Grp	740
10	World’s Worst Parents,The	Walliams, David	HarperCollins Grp	618
11	Pull of the Stars,The	Donoghue, Emma	Pan Macmillan Grp	574
12	Finding Freedom	Scobie, Omid & Durand, Carolyn	HarperCollins Grp	548
13	Girl, Woman, Other	Evaristo, Bernardine	Penguin Grp	538
14	American Dirt	Cummins, Jeanine	Headline Grp	516
15	Choice,The:A true story of hope	Eger, Edith	Random House Grp	508
16	Philadelphia, Here I Come	Friel, Brian	Faber Grp	507
17	Strange Flowers	Ryan, Donal	Transworld Grp	498
18	Death Sets Sail	Stevens, Robin	Penguin Grp	466
19	Silent Patient,The	Michaelides, Alex	Orion Grp	440
20	Too Much and Never Enough	Trump, Mary L.	Simon & Schuster Grp	408

	Data Supplied by Nielsen BookScan taken from the Irish Consumer Market week ending 29th August 2020
Mass Market Fiction
	Title	Author	Imprint	Sales
1	Where the Crawdads Sing	Owens, Delia	Corsair	1,162
2	Girl, Woman, Other	Evaristo, Bernardine	Penguin Books Ltd	538
3	Silent Patient,The	Michaelides, Alex	Orion (an Imprint of The Orion	440
4	Conversations with Friends	Rooney, Sally	Faber & Faber	393
5	Normal People	Rooney, Sally	Faber & Faber	356
6	Of Mice and Men	Steinbeck, Mr John	Penguin Books Ltd	341
7	Beekeeper of Aleppo,The	Lefteri, Christy	Manilla Press	325
8	This Is Happiness	Williams, Niall	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC	263
9	Triail,An	Ghrada, Mairead Ni	An Gum	255
10	Giver of Stars,The	Moyes, Jojo	Penguin Books Ltd	250
Original Fiction
	Title	Author	Imprint	Sales
1	Strange Flowers	Ryan, Donal	Doubleday Ireland	1,922
2	Dirty South,The	Connolly, John	Hodder & Stoughton	1,360
3	Moonflower Murders	Horowitz, Anthony	Century	831
4	Pull of the Stars,The	Donoghue, Emma	Picador	574
5	American Dirt	Cummins, Jeanine	Tinder Press	516
6	Strange Flowers	Ryan, Donal	Doubleday	498
7	Women Who Ran Away,The	O’Flanagan, Sheila	Headline Review	398
8	Nothing Man,The	Howard, Catherine Ryan	Corvus	355
9	Bird in the Bamboo Cage,The	Gaynor, Hazel	HarperCollins Publishers	309
10	Apeirogon	McCann, Colum	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC	281
Paperback Non Fiction
	Title	Author	Imprint	Sales
1	Untamed:Stop pleasing, start living	Doyle, Glennon	Vermilion	740
2	Finding Freedom	Scobie, Omid & Durand, Carolyn	HQ	548
3	Choice,The:A true story of hope	Eger, Edith	Rider & Co	508
4	Philadelphia, Here I Come	Friel, Brian	Faber And Faber Plays	507
5	Ghost In The Throat,A	Ni Ghriofa, Doireann	Tramp Press	332
6	Good Vibes, Good Life	King, Vex	Hay House UK Ltd	310
7	Power of Now,The	Tolle, Eckhart	Hodder Paperback	272
8	Atomic Habits	Clear, James	Random House Business Books	270
9	Jump	Moyles, Daniella	Gill Books	237
10	12 Rules for Life	Peterson, Jordan B.	Penguin Books Ltd	185
Hardback Non Fiction
	Title	Author	Imprint	Sales
1	Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse,The	Mackesy, Charlie	Ebury Press	1,719
2	7 Ways:Easy Ideas for Every Day of the Week	Oliver, Jamie	Michael Joseph	1,031
3	Too Much and Never Enough	Trump, Mary L.	Simon & Schuster Ltd	408
4	Happy Pear: Vegan Cooking for Everyone	Flynn, David & Flynn, Stephen	Penguin Ireland	397
5	Women Don’t Owe You Pretty	Given, Florence	Cassell	248
6	What I Know for Sure	Winfrey, Oprah	Macmillan	238
7	Daly Dish,The	Daly, Gina & Daly, Karol	Gill Books	171
8	Secret,The	Byrne, Rhonda	Simon & Schuster Ltd	155
9	Pinch of Nom	Featherstone, Kay & Allinson, Catherine	Bluebird	135
10	100 Poems	Heaney, Seamus	Faber & Faber	123
Childrens
	Title	Author	Imprint	Sales
1	Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Adventure	Kinney, Jeff	Puffin	1,173
2	Midnight Sun	Meyer, Stephenie	ATOM	855
3	World’s Worst Parents,The	Walliams, David	HarperCollins	618
4	Death Sets Sail	Stevens, Robin	Puffin	466
5	Slime	Walliams, David	HarperCollins	397
6	While We Can’t Hug:A Hedgehog and Tortoise Story	McLaughlin, Eoin	Faber & Faber	362
7	Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid:Rowley Jefferson’s Journal	Kinney, Jeff	Puffin	300
8	Outsiders,The	Hinton, S E	Penguin Books Ltd	258
9	For Whom the Ball Rolls:Dog Man	Pilkey, Dav	Scholastic	236
10	Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone	Rowling, J.K.	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC	224