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'The return of the bonkbuster' is a phrase I've heard applied to a number of recent commercial fiction titles, but the original Jackie Collins gets October off to a glamorous [...]

July sees the return of some of the biggest names in fiction with Jeffery Deaver, Dean Koontz and James Patterson all sure to make an appearance on the bestseller lists. [...]

May is the strongest month for fiction so far this year--lots of it, and excellent quality. There's new lit tic from Doris Lessing, Siri Hustvedt, Tim Winton, David Lodge, Sebastian [...]

Unsurprisingly, the overall book market is down in this tough financial climate. By 11th July this year, spending through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market was down 1.6% year on year [...]

As Oliver Bowden's Assassin's Creed: Renaissance holds top spot for a second week, Nicci Gerrard debuts in the Top 10 with her fourth standalone novel, The Winter House. She is [...]

Thanks in part to success at Waterstone's and independent retailers the late Stieg Larsson's 2008-published The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo takes top spot in the mass-market fiction list for [...]

Sales of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol jumped 25% week on week so the US author stays at the summit of the original fiction list for a 12th week. Life [...]

Oliver Bowden's video game spin-off Assassin's Creed: Renaissance is this week's new Heatseeker number one--Penguin's fourth of 2009. Former Marie Claire features editor Katie Agnew's Wives v Girlfriends--her third novel [...]

The majority of the Top 20 Hardback Fiction titles shuffle positions this week, but there's no change at the summit with Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol holding top spot for [...]

Thanks to a 34,306 sale in its first full week in UK bookshops, Run For Your Life takes top spot in the mass-market fiction list. It is writing juggernaut James [...]

As Julia Williams' Last Christmas returns to the top of the charts for a third week, Oliver Bowden's video game spin-off, Assassin's Creed: Renaissance, joins as this week's highest new [...]

John Grisham's The Associate has become only the ninth book in the last five years to have spent five weeks or more at the top of the mass-market fiction chart. [...]

The Original Fiction Top 20 enjoyed an average week-on-week sales boost of 8% last week. Some enjoyed a large jump (Wilbur Smith's Assegai-up 44%) while others suffered a sharp decline [...]

In a recent interview, weatherman-turned-mystery author Al Roker said of Patterson, 'I marvel at what he does' So here's a look at his 2009 hardcover fiction performance. Cross Country ended [...]

HarperCollins imprint, Avon, takes the top two positions in this week's Heatseekers chart with 'the English Maeve Binchy' Leah Fleming's Remembrance Day holding top spot and Julia Williams' third novel, [...]

Leah Fleming's fifth novel, Remembrance Day, is this week's new Heatseeker number one, giving HarperCollins imprint Avon its fifth Heatseeker number one of the year. Award-winning Norwegian crime-writer Jo Nesbo's [...]

With Born Badrising to pole position within the mass-market fiction chart, it means Josephine Cox's last five novels have all reached the coveted number one spot. Chris Kuzneski's fifth Payne [...]

Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol holds top spot for a sixth week as sales appear to be plateuing at around the 30,000 to 35,000 mark. Patricia Cornwell's 17th Scarpetta thriller, [...]

There is a distinct female bias to this week's Heatseekers chart: 15 of the 20 authors are women They are led for a second week by Roberta Kray, holding off [...]

James Patterson's prolific form continues with a third week at number one for Cross Country--and having just signed a 17-book deal with Random House, there are a lot more hits [...]

It's not often that Terry Pratchett has to settle for second place in a chart, but his latest, Unseen Academicals, is held down for a third week in a row [...]

Last week's number one (Matt Hilton's Dead Men's Dust) graduates from the Heatseekers list as it enters the Official UK Top 50 this week--along with last week's Man Booker-winning Heatseeker [...]

A 60% sales boost week on week catapults Cecelia Ahern's Christmas tale, The Gift, into second position behind a stalwart James Patterson, while the late Stieg Larsson goes from strength [...]

It's Dan Brown's fourth week at the top of the bestseller lists--The Lost Symbors total UK sales currently stand at 855,580 copies. Transworld stablemate Terry Pratchett's The Unseen Academicals' climbs [...]

James Patterson's 14th Alex Cross thriller, Cross Country, which sold just over 100,000 copies in hardback, debuts in pole position. It prevents Ian Rankin's Doors Open from climbing back into [...]

Matt Hilton, an author saved from the slush pile and paid 800,000 £ for a five-novel deal, is this week's new number one. His debut novel, Dead Men's Dust, was [...]

In South Africa, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol outsold its nearest rival (John van de Ruit's Spud: Learning to Fly) by 11 copies to one. In Ireland, it outsold Cathy [...]

Hilary Mantel's Man Booker shortlisted Wolf Hall is this week's Heatseeker number one, narrowly taking top spot ahead of Tania Carver's debut novel, The Surrogate. Bram Stoker's great-grand nephew, Dacre [...]

A record-breaking 550,946 five-day sale from Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol is more than enough to top the Original Ficiton list this week. It outsold the book in second position--and [...]

Cathy Kelly retains pole position, ahead of a fast-rising reading-group favourite Sophie Hannah's The Other Half Lives. Kathy Lette's To Love, Honour and Betray is this week's highest new entry, [...]

Ian Rankin's The Complaints stays top of the Original Fiction Top 20 for a second week--a top 20 awash with early-September publications. James Patterson's Alex Cross's Trial climbs into second [...]

A robust marketing campaign helps boost Cathy Kelly to the top spot for the first time since 2005, elbowing out Jodi Picoult's debut novel, originally published in the US in [...]

Perhaps the gauge of how receptive the public will be to next week's new Dan Brown can be seen in the Heatseekers chart which has a raft of Brownesque historical [...]

Early September is when publishers begin wheeling out the hardback fiction big guns--even more so this year as schedules have been rejigged to avoid The Lost Symbol hoopla--and the effect [...]

As has been the case for much of the year so far, Stephenie Meyer and the late Stieg Larsson dominate the August European bestseller lists--Larsson charts in two of the [...]

Television scriptwriter Mark Pearson's Blood Work becomes the 22nd Heatseeker chart-topper of the year--and the first for Cornerstone in almost 18 months. As Chloe Palov's Stones of Fire falls, Mario [...]

Numerous titles in the top 10 trade positions, but Katie Price's Sapphire stays atop the list for a fourth week despite week-on-week sales declining by almost a third. Tracy Chevalier's [...]

MACLEAN'S BESTSELLERS Fiction 1 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED 1 (2) WITH FIRE by Stieg Larsson 2 THE CHILDREN'S BOOK 2 (16) by A.S. Byatt 3 SACRED HEARTS 3 (3) by [...]

Chloe Palov's Stones of Fire holds firm at the summit of a top 10 in which TV scriptwriter Mark Pearson's Blood Work, his second novel, debuts. His first thriller, Hard [...]

Five thrillers enter this week's original fiction list, raising the question of whether they may all have beaten each other up at the bookshops. None comes close to toppling Katie [...]

C M Palov's conspiracy thriller, Stones of Fire, moves into pole position-a position vacated by Angus Donald's Sherwood Forest epic, Outlaw, which graduates into the Official UK Top 50 this [...]

A year after Linwood Barclay's 2008 'Richard and Judy' Summer Read, No Time for Goodbye, was flying high atop the mass-market fiction chart, his follow-up, Too Close to Home, ascends [...]

As Sapphire holds firm at the top of the Original fiction chart, both Kathryn Stockett's The Help and Lisa Gardner's The Neighbour climb into the Top 10. Sarah Waters' Man [...]

Former fruit picker Angus Donald's Sherwood Forest thriller, Outlaw, debuts at the top of the Heatseekers list on part-week sales alone, relegating Scott Mariani's The Heretic's Treasure to second place [...]

As Maeve Binchy and Jodi Picoult hold firm at the top of the charts, the late Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Played With Fire enjoys yet another weekly sale personal [...]

Penny Vincenzi's 15th novel, The Best of Times, debuts atop the Original Fiction chart on part-week sales alone. It's the first time she's topped the chart since Sheer Abandon achieved [...]

Alan Furst's 14th thriller, The Spies of Warsaw, debuts atop the Heatseekers chart, but does so with the lowest sale from a Heatseeker number one in more than six years. [...]

Despite clocking up considerable life sales of 2.9 million copies Dan Brown's Angels and Demons has lived in the shadow of its sequel, The Da Vinci Code; until now. For [...]