Sally Rooney wins awards for clocking up millions of sales

Sally Rooney has won several awards at the Nielsen BookData Bestseller Awards in London this evening, honouring authors whose books have now sold more than 250,000 (silver), 500,000 (gold) and one million copies (platinum).

Rooney and Colleen Hoover both had titles simultaneously recognised in the Platinum and Gold categories – Rooney’s Normal People has now sold more than one million copies in the UK alone while her first novel, Conversations with Friends, and most recent book Beautiful World, Where Are You have each sold more than 500,000 copies. Hoover’s runaway hit It Ends with Us won a Platinum award while It Starts With Us won Gold.

Claire Keegan won a silver award for 250,000 sales of her Booker shortlisted novel Small Things Like These.

Richard Osman received his second Platinum award for The Bullet That Missed. Children’s book duo Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler achieved Platinum status for The Highway Rat. Susan Lewis and Victoria Hislop received Author Platinum Awards on the night, having sold over 5 million copies across all their titles.

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