On the eve of the UK’s leading fiction award,Autumn dominates sales of the shortlisted novels, but Lincoln in the Bardo is tipped to bewitch the final prizeAli Smith is outselling the US writers on the Man Booker prize shortlist with just one day left before the winner is announced – but American author George Saunders remains the favourite at the bookmakers.
According book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan, and Smith’s novel Autumn is the commercial winner so far among the six titles shortlisted for the UK’s most prestigious prize for fiction with nearly 50000 copies sold. From the US,Paul Auster’s 4321 comes in second with nearly 15000 sales. Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo, debut British novelist Fiona Mozley’s Elmet, and British/Pakistani Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West beget all sold about 10000 copies each. History of Wolves,by the American first-timer Emily Fridlund, has sold the least, and with a figure of 3410 copies.
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Source: guardian.co.uk