09.07.14 | Tom Tivnan - The Bookseller
John Green notched up his fourth consecutive week as the Official UK Top 50 number one whilst Hilary Clinton's UK media blitz has seen her claim hardback fiction's top spot.Green is only the second author in 2014 to achieve a solid month or more at the top of the Nielsen BookScan charts after Dan Brown accomplished the feat in five straight weeks in May and June. Green has also held on to the first and third spots in the chart for the third week in a row, with the original and film tie-in edition of The Fault in Our Stars (Penguin). The two editions combined for sales of just over 52,000 physical units and £268,000 last week, and all physical formats of the book has sold just under 455,000 copies for £2.4m thus far in 2014. Additionally, Green has two other titles in the overall Top 50: Looking for Alaska (HarperCollins, 24th place) and Paper Towns (Bloomsbury, 29th).
Green has also, for the third straight week, denied a top spot for Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Vintage, 23,177 copies), which has been ensconsed in second place since it was published on the 19th of June. John Grisham’s Sycamore Row (Hodder), the sequel to his 1989 début, A Time to Kill, is also blocked from number one, but is the week’s highest new entry at fourth place (17,587 copies).
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