The Bookseller - Bestsellers - Box clever: Georgia Summers' subscription-boosted The City of Stardust débuts at number one

Summers, a former editor at Pan MacmillanOne of largest fiction and non-fiction book publishers in UK; includes imprints of Pan, Picador and Macmillan Children’s Books's Science Fiction and Fantasy imprint Tor, shifted just over 11,000 units through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market for her début, which was aided by its nod as the Fairyloot subscription service's January Adult pick, plus a Waterstones exclusive edition. This follows the previous number one, Saara El-Arifi's Faebound (HarperVoyager) which had similar boosts from Fairlyloot, Waterstones and the Goldsboro Books' Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fellowship.

It was a strong week overall in the romantasy and New Adult fantasy space with five titles in the Top 50, including Sarah J Maas' A Court of Thorn and Roses (Bloomsbury) bouncing back into the upper echelons of the chart to 35th, ahead of the launch of House of Flame and Shadow (Bloomsbury) which hits shops today (30th January). Maas' newest will almost certainly be next week's number one, with a decent shot of breaking Rebecca Yarros' launch week record for a SFF book of 57,055 copies. If Maas is indeed triumphant, it would mean three different SFF titles hitting number one in succession, a first since accurate records began.