Wolf Hall most popular winner ever
Ten week period following announcement is compared
22 December 2009
Sales of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall have made the novel the most popular Man Booker winner since records began.
According to Nielsen BookScan data, Wolf Hall has sold 137,150 copies since its win 10 weeks ago, 28,234 copies more (25.9%) than 2002 winner, Yann Martel's Life of Pi (Canongate), managed over the same period in 2002 and some 28,616 copies more (26.4%) than Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger (Atlantic) sold over the comparative 10-week period. The next most popular Booker winner since BookScan records began in 1998 was D B C Pierre's Vernon God Little (Faber), which sold 76,669 copies, across all editions, in the 10 weeks following its Man Booker win.
Life sales of Wolf Hall currently total 173,060 copies across all editions-including 163,938 copies for the hardback edition.
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