Pups, vampires and a president: The bestselling books of 2020
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Local authors accounted for eight of the 10 bestselling books in Australia last year, with the irrepressible blue heeler, Bluey, the subject of three of them. The canine hero of the ABC TV series, created by Ludo Studios in Brisbane, had seven books in the overall top 20, with combined sales exceeding 910,000 copies.
Despite the emergence of coronavirus and the consequent lockdowns that forced many bricks and mortar bookshops to shift to online sales and offer click-and-collect or home delivery, total book sales jumped by 9 per cent to 66 million in 2020, according to Nielsen BookScan, which surveys more than 1500 booksellers in Australia. Total value increased by 8 per cent to $1.2 billion.
Under Currents (Nora Roberts),
Nine Perfect Strangers (Liane Moriarty),
The Guardians (John Grisham),
Redemption (David Baldacci) and
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About 3.3 million books were issued across Christchurch City Council’s library network in the past 12 months. Well-known names lead the library waitlist, with Lee and Andrew Child’s
Sentinel the most requested, followed by chef Chelsea Winter’s
Supergood, Kiwi Rose Carlyle’s debut novel,
The Girl in the Mirror, and David Walliams’
The World’s Worst Parents. In the children’s section, J. K. Rowling’s
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is firmly on top, followed by
Editor s note: This story has been updated to correct the number of units in the design for the Sugarloaf Key affordable housing project.
Compared to previous school years, there have been measurable losses in student learning due to the coronavirus pandemic. But other updates, such as on the Sugarloaf Key affordable housing project, student achievement and annual financial reports were positive at the in-person and live broadcast of the Monroe County School Board meeting Dec. 15 at Coral Shores High School.
Staff presented information about a new student progress monitoring test that is proving to be very adaptive. While some parents are inclined to view standardized testing negatively, the teachers are finding it helpful, according to Theresa Axford, Schools Superintendent Theresa Axford. The various schoolsâ planning teams decide whether to use the testing, and results show teachers said they like the testâs ability to progressively pinpoint where students need help by
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He might have taken his time to write it and he might have been comprehensively beaten to publication by his wife, but Barack Obamaâs 768-page memoir,
A Promised Land, will be on top of the Christmas bestseller charts in Australia and around the world.
The book, which was published on November 18, sold more than 18,000 copies in its first three days here and has now sold more than 71,000 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan, which surveys print book sales from more than 1600 retailers. In the week to December 12, nearly 17,200 copies of
A Promised Land were snapped up. It is also number one in Britain and at the top of the New York Times non-fiction list.
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He might have taken his time to write it and he might have been comprehensively beaten to publication by his wife, but Barack Obamaâs 768-page memoir,
A Promised Land, will be on top of the Christmas bestseller charts in Australia and around the world.
The book, which was published on November 18, sold more than 18,000 copies in its first three days here and has now sold more than 71,000 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan, which surveys print book sales from more than 1600 retailers. In the week to December 12, nearly 17,200 copies of
A Promised Land were snapped up. It is also number one in Britain and at the top of the New York Times non-fiction list.