BESTSELLERS

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FROM NOW ON, OUR BESTSELLING BOOKS WILL HAVE MONTHLY READER! READ FASTER! SALES AWARDS BASED ON THEIR COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE.
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FASTEST!: A barn-storming bestseller that blew off our bookselling socks.
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FAST!: An absolute bestseller if it wasn't for those pesky FASTEST! books.
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BESTSELLING FICTION: MARCH 2013

1 Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Katniss has survived the Hunger Games twice and someone wants revenge...

2 Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
A bestselling thriller about a disappeared wife with plot twists galore.

3 Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
The second in Suzanne's stupendously successful series of suspense and survival.

4 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
A novel of novellas, with a little help from Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Halle Berry, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant and Jim Broadbent.

5 Fifty Shades of Grey - EL James
Yes, really.

BESTSELLING ACADEMIC: MARCH 2013

1 FASTEST! Eyre Affair- Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde's first novel featuring his dodo-owning detective Thursday Next.

2 FAST! Red Dust Road - Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay's compassionate, life-affirming and extraordinarily moving memoir.

3 Land Law Express (Revision Guide)
A guide to understanding essential concepts, remembering and applying key legislation and making answers stand out.

4 Tort Law Express Q&A
Shows how even a good answer can definitely be improved.

5 English As A Global Language - David Crystal
Crystal's classic on the role of English as a world-leading language. Written in English, of course. 

BESTSELLING GIFT & STATIONERY: MARCH 2013

1 FASTEST! Nook HD+ 32G
World's lightest and lowest priced full HD 9" Tablet.

2 FASTEST! Nook HD+ 16G
Brilliant HD 9" display, crisp text & beautiful graphics.

3 FAST! Beautiful Books Bag (our lovely bag-for-life)

4 University of Manchester pencil

5 Zatchels handmade satchel (red leather) 

BESTSELLING FICTION: FEBRUARY 2013

1 FAST! Ten Things I've Learnt About Love - Sarah Butler 
Heart-wrenching and life-affirming, this is a unique story of love lost and found: a story for fathers and daughters everywhere

2 Transmission - Hari Kunzru
A heady mix of London, Bollywood and Silicon Valley. A brilliant and funny take on life at the click of a mouse

3 First Novel - Nicholas Royle
A twisted campus novel that's not afraid to blend fact with fiction as a creative writing teacher works on his new novel and kills time by having sex in cars.

4 Cuentos - Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Stories from the award-winning Peruvian writer who was also a cultural advisor to UNESCO. Written in the Spanish language.

5 The Lighthouse - Alison Moore
The story of Futh on a walking holiday in Germany. A Booker-shortlisted story of things not done.

BESTSELLING ACADEMIC: FEBRUARY 2013


1 FASTEST! Tort Law - Kirsty Horsey & Erika Rackley 
The authors combine a lively, engaging writing style with a critical approach to the subject. of Tort Law.

2 FASTEST! The Digestive System - Margaret E. Smith, Dion G. Morton
The core knowledge needed for the digestive system from the bestselling The Systems of the Body series.

3 FAST! Public Law - Mark Elliott & Robert Thomas
A high quality textbook that offers a mixture of black letter law and political analysis to give students an excellent grounding in the subject.

4 Comparative Government & Politics - Rod Hague & Martin Harrop
A new edition that has been comprehensively updated and rewritten, with an improved structure and new material on methodology. 

5 Global Politics -  Jenny Edkins & Maja Zehfuss
War, peace-building, terrorism, development, post colonialism, human rights, gender, inequality, ethnicity and what we can do to change the world.

BESTSELLING GIFT & STATIONERY: FEBRUARY 2013

1 Nook HD+ 16G
Brilliant HD 9" display, crisp text & beautiful graphics.

2 Nook HD+ 32G
World's lightest and lowest priced full HD 9" Tablet.

3 A4 narrow-lined pad (80-leaf)

4 Beautiful Books Bag (our lovely bag-for-life)

5 Porcelain Mug (University of Manchester)

BESTSELLING FICTION: JANUARY 2013 

1 The Friday Gospels - Jenn Ashworth
The tale of an English Mormon family and the day the cracks in their lives yawn into chasms, as savagely funny as it is tragic

2 The Drivers Seat - Muriel Spark
Lise's search for adventure, sex and the obsessional experience takes on a far darker significance.

3 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson's Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare.

4 Dance With Dragons 1: Dreams and Dust - George R R Martin
The first part of the fifth volume in the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age.

5 Turn of the Screw - Henry James
A young governess comes to believe that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care.

BESTSELLING ACADEMIC: JANUARY 2013

1 Blackstone's EU Treaties & Legislation
Blackstone's Statutes have a 25-year tradition of trust and quality unrivalled by others, and a rock solid reputation for accuracy, reliability and authority

2 Blacksstone's Statutes on Property Law
Consistently recommended by lecturers and relied on by students for exam and course use.

3 Clinical Medicine (Oxford Assess and Progress)
A new revision resource for medical students. An array of SBA's, EMQ's and editorials on core clinical topics.

4 French Experience 1 coursebook
At home or in a class, you can use this hugely successful course to develop your listening, reading, writing and speaking skills.

5 Foundations Italian 1
Revised edition of this popular beginner's classroom text,  now including 2 CDs with each copy.

BESTSELLING GIFT & STATIONERY: JANUARY 2013

1 Nook HD+ 32G
World's lightest and lowest priced full HD 9" Tablet

2 Nook HD+ 16G
Brilliant HD 9" display, crisp text & beautiful graphics.

3 Nook HD+ 360 Stand (black)
A trim, ultra-modern way of protecting your NOOK HD+.

4 A4 narrow-lined pad (80-leaf)

5 Scientific Calculator
The Casio FX-83GT has 260 functions and includes prime factorization, recurring decimal, verify decimal and easy menu functions.