Combined UK sales for the trilogy are in excess of 12m copies, with rights to the book sold around the world and published in languages including Albanian, Chinese, Russian, Serbian and Vietnamese.īut is it right? Proving sales across platforms independently is very difficult as there are so many outlets. The second and third books, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, are also selling fast, with UK sales of 3.6m and 3.2m respectively. The book has remained in the top slot in the UK bestseller lists for the 16th week running. Publisher Cornerstone (part of Random House) announced this week that the erotic novel has sold in excess of 5.3m copies in print and ebook – more than The Highway Code or Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.
The novel, a National Book Award finalist and winner of the Booker Prize, is a gut punch.Fifty Shades of Grey is Britain's best-selling book ever - according to the publishers at least - but how does it compare? Stuart writes beautifully observed inner lives for both characters, capturing Shuggie’s devotion to his sometimes vivacious and glamorous mother and the pain that comes from seeing her transformed into a hateful, unpredictable stranger by drink. While the setting is bleak, littered with descriptions of quiet indignities-Agnes’ late-night calls to her ex-husband’s taxi company, lingering mugs filled with day-old beer-the guiding light of the novel is the boy’s enduring love for his mother. Against the backdrop of a city neglected by the government and in decline, Shuggie and Agnes wrestle for control over their lives, often finding themselves swept away by the waves of her addiction. His father and two older siblings have left home, long before he can. Douglas Stuart’s acclaimed debut novel draws heavily on his upbringing in 1980s Glasgow, where, like Stuart did, Hugh “Shuggie” Bain is growing up with an alcoholic mother and facing a culture of homophobia that makes him feel like an outcast.
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