The Beekeeper of Aleppo wins Gold Nielsen Bestseller Award
We are delighted to announce that Christy Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo (Manilla Press) has won a Gold Bestseller Award at the annual Nielsen Bestseller Award Ceremony on Wednesday 17th March.
Authors received honours for significant lifetime sales, as measured by Nielsen Bookscan and PubTrack Digital across both print and e-book formats.
The Awards were based on UK sales volumes and were presented to those that passed sales thesholds during 2020. The thresholds were marked Silver (250,000 sales), Gold (500,000 sales), and Platinum (1,000,000 sales). Twenty-seven titles in all were awarded Silver, Gold or Platinum status.
The sales have helped contribute to another robust year despite the challenges that lockdown brought to the retail sector of the UK book industry with Nielsen Book estimating the total year at 202 million print books sold to the value of £1.8bn.
Andre Breedt, m.d. of Nielsen Book said: “We are delighted to be celebrating the fifth Nielsen Bestseller Awards, albeit virtually on social media. It feels more important than ever to recognise and celebrate the incredible role books have played in our lives this last year. Whether it was reading for escapism or keeping us calm, helping to homeschool our children or the source of the best binge-worthy TV series; books were and continue to be at the centre of our lives. Indeed without books, knowledge would not have transferred across the ages from diaries of former pandemics to medical journals contributing to new vaccines. Never have books been more needed, or appreciated.”
