JK Rowling and Joe Wicks powered 2016 surge in UK book sales

By Danuta Kean

Helped by Harry Potter and the hit fitness guru, year on year takings to December rose sharply to £1.59bn

Retail sales struggled in 2016, but JK Rowling cast a spell strong enough to power sales towards a magical £1.6bn during the year, a rise of almost 5% on 2015, according to the latest annual sales data.

Led by Harry Potter’s newest incarnation in a West End play, Rowling’s first screenplay and titles by diet and fitness guru Joe Wicks, annual book sales in the UK rose to just over £1.59bn in 2016, from £1.51bn in the previous year, according to the annual sales roundup from data specialist Nielsen BookScan.

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