The Girl on the Train tops Amazon's UK ebook sales this year so far
by Alison Flood from Technology | The Guardian on (#JDM4)
Paula Hawkins' bestseller leads a crop of psychological thrillers, in a top 20 dominated by women
Dark psychological thrillers dominate the list of the year's bestselling ebooks unveiled by Amazon, with MP Nadine Dorries making it into a line-up composed almost entirely of female writers.
The British arm of the online retail giant said that Paula Hawkins' hit novel The Girl on the Train, a thriller about marriage, murder and alcoholism, was its bestselling ebook of the year to date. Just two of Amazon.co.uk's bestselling ebooks of 2015 so far are by male writers: Lee Child's thriller Personal, in 10th place, and David Nicholls' story of a crumbling marriage, Us, in 12th.
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