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Life debuts at #3 in UK with 28,213 copies sold:
Keef, Katie Price, Chris Evans and the Meerkat hit top 50 02.11.10 | Philip Stone
Four celebrity memoirs début in the Official UK Top 50 this week, bringing the total number of celeb-mems in the chart to 12. This is a significant improvement on the same week last year when just three made the Official UK Top 50.
Three of the débuting four take positions in the top 10, led by Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards' Life (Weidenfeld), which sold 28,213 copies in its opening week in bookshops. It takes third position in the Official UK Top 50, behind the latest edition of Guinness World Records (in second) and Jamie Oliver's Jamie's 30-minute Meals (Michael Joseph) which sold a phenomenal 78,606 copies at UK booksellers last week—the strongest ever October weekly sale since records began.
Katie Price's fourth memoir in just over six years, You Only Live Once (Century) sold 17,752 copies in its opening week in shops, and takes seventh position overall, while TV star Aleksandr Orlov's A Simples Life (Ebury) débuts in ninth place. Chris Evans' tales of his wilderness years, Memoirs of a Fruitcake (HarperCollins), is the fourth celebrity entry into the top 50, selling 10,671 copies last week. It takes 24th place.
Kate Mosse's The Winter Ghosts (Orion), the fifth most popular purchase at UK bookshops last week, débuts in pole position in this week's mass-market fiction chart thanks to a Waterstone's "link-save"-boosted 20,743 sale, while new books by three of the biggest names in fiction join the Original Fiction Top 20. John Grisham's The Confession (Century) and Patricia Cornwell's Port Mortuary (Little, Brown) take second and third place respectively, while Danielle Steel's Legacy (Bantam Press) charts in eighth.
Also new into the Original Fiction list is comedienne Dawn French's first novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous (Michael Joseph), which sold 4,182 copies in its first week in shops.
This week's Top 20 Paperback Non-fiction chart welcomes two new entries—feline books from the en-vogue pet memoir genre. Helen Brown's Cleo (Hodder) charts in 11th place, while Denis O'Connor's Paw Tracks at Owl Cottage (Constable), the follow-up to the surprise, tear-inducing 2009 hit Paw Tracks in the Moonlight, sneaks in at number 19.
Meanwhile, in children's, annuals are slowly climbing the charts ahead of Christmas. The Beano remains the bestseller, with Peppa Pig and Doctor Who close behind in sales terms.
In total, £35.9m was spent at UK booksellers last week, up 4.5% week-on-week but down 0.4% on the same week last year when Guinness World Records topped the chart for the first time in 2009.
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