Griffiths, Denton sell more than 700,000 ‘Treehouse’ books to top 2015 local bestsellers list

21 January 2016 Books+Publishing

Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s ‘Treehouse’ books took the top five spots in the 2015 Australian bestsellers chart, selling a total of 714,000 copies, according to data from Nielsen BookScan.

Rosalie Ham’s The Dressmaker (Duffy & Snellgrove), which was first published in 2005, sold 81,000 copies of its film tie-in edition to finish in sixth spot. Two more spots in the top 10 were taken up by adult fiction: Liane Moriarty’s The Husband’s Secret (Pan), which sold 77,000 copies to finish in seventh place on the Australian bestsellers chart, and Kate Morton’s The Lake House (A&U), which sold 69,000 copies to finish in ninth.

Two cookbooks also made the top 10. Pete Evans’ Family Food: 130 Delicious Paleo Recipes for Every Day (Plum) sold 70,000 copies to finish in eighth place, and Sarah Wilson’s I Quit Sugar: Simplicious (Macmillan) sold 68,000 to finish in 10th.

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