About the Awards
The Nielsen Bestseller Awards in association with Coutts use data on print sales from Nielsen BookScan, and e-book sales from Nielsen PubTrack Digital, to identify and celebrate the UK’s bestselling books. Books selling over 250,000 copies, in print and e-book sales, are awarded Silver status, those selling over 500,000 are awarded Gold status, and those selling over 1,000,000 books are awarded Platinum status.
The Nielsen Bestseller Awards annual ceremony took place virtually – Wednesday 17 March 2021. Richard Osman, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Matt Haig and David Walliams were among the prize-winners. Find out more here.
The Nielsen Bestseller Awards 2021:

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