The Mirror and the Light shines with huge first-week sales
(The Guardian Books News)

Hilary Mantel´s conclusion to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy sold more than 95,000 copies in three daysHilary Mantel´s much-anticipated The Mirror and the Light has been selling a copy every 2.7 seconds since its release last Thursday, with the final book in the two-time Booker winner´s trilogy selling more than 95,000 print copies in just three days.According to figures from sales monitor Nielsen BookScan, 5p in every £1 spent on books in the UK last week went towards a copy of The Mirror and the Light. After an eight-year wait since the last book, 2012´s Bring Up the Bodies, excited fans lined up to buy the novel at bookshops around the UK at midnight on Wednesday. Continue reading...