Philip Pullman Returns to the Top of the Charts
After a six-year wait, Philip Pullman's The Rose Field (Penguin and David Fickling) has been published and debuted at the top of the Official UK Top 50, according to NielsenIQ BookData's Total Consumer Market.
Pullman's Northern Lights and Book of Dust trilogies have consistently shown massive crossover appeal. However, The Rose Field, the concluding part of the Book of Dust trilogy, has been classified as Science Fiction & Fantasy, marking a departure from the previous five instalments in Lyra's Oxford, which were categorized as Children's Fiction or Young Adult Fiction.
This classification gives Pullman his first adult number one title since The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (Canongate) in 2010. Despite some confusion over its category, The Rose Field has achieved impressive sales, with 49,878 copies sold in its first week, although this figure is down 9% from anticipated sales.
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Author's summary: Philip Pullman's The Rose Field tops the UK charts.
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