Top 20 Bestsellers – December 2019
The Christmas season held no surprises when it came to sales through the tills, with end-of-year staples such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Deon Meyer, Lee Child, Malcolm Gladwell, Wilbur Smith, John Grisham, Robin Sharma, John Platter’s Wine Guide, Guinness World Records, Zapiro , David Walliams and Jamie Oliver all putting in an appearance […]
Local books dominate Nielsen Top 20 in August
Readers’ love affair with expletives continued into the year with no less than three titles containing the word f*ck making it to the Top 20 in August. South Africa’s plague of corruption remains a source of fascination, with Bosasa, the tobacco industry and the so-called Stellenbosch Mafia all covered on the bestseller list, the latter […]
Comparing the UK and the US Book Markets:
Does one lead and the other follow? The international book trade is a rich and varied creature with each territory influenced – more or less so – by cultural and local influences: priests-turned-chefs in Brazil, economics and business titles in India and home-grown fiction authors in Italy for example. But there are also trends that […]