24 January 2022
Julia Donaldson pictured above has extended her seemingly unstoppable record-setting run of earning eight figures through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market. The £14.1m that the Gruffalo co-creator chalked up in 2021 is the 12th year on the trot she has eclipsed £10m, as she claimed the bestselling author in Britain crown for the second year in a row. Richard Osman muscled into the top three, consigning David Walliams to fourth place, the latter's lowest position in the year-end authors chart since 2013.
