Martin's A Dance with Dragons sold 28,840 copies in just five days last week

George R R Martin's A Dance with Dragons sold 28,840 copies in just five days last week, becoming one of the fastest-selling fantasy novels since records began. The 1,040-page, 1.5kg epic took £372,650 through UK bookshop tills last week at an average selling price of £12.92 - 48% off its £25 r.r.p. The novel, the long-awaited fifth instalment in the American novelist's A Song of Ice and Fire medieval fantasy series, was comfortably the bestselling hardback fiction book of the week, outselling nearest competitor Karin Slaughter's Fallen (Century), by almost five copies to one. However, it has to settle for fifth position in this week's Official UK Top 50. - The Bookseller