Hello everyone, welcome to 2025! I hope you’ve all had a great start to the year, I know I have! Things are moving quickly here at Beyond The Vale, watch out for our next newsletters for very exciting information. But for now, as you will all know by now, the first newsletter of the month means it’s time to see who topped the sales charts, brought to you by Turn The Page Distribution and Beyond The Vale Publishing.
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Let’s jump into December 2024 sales:
Let’s start with FICTION:
Fiction number 3:
Michael Ferguson – The Acrimonious
From the author of a Prophecy of Flowers and Lightning is his first novel of paranormal fiction.
Fiction number 2:
Collatain Hendricks-Cloete – The Hills Are Alive – It’s Festive
Wonderful look back at Christmas in the mid-80s in the Cape Flats
Fiction number 1:
Ryliegh Sloane – Frost My Snowman
Congratulations, Ryleigh with some festive romance.
Now, let’s move onto our top 3 sellers for NON-FICTION
Non-fiction number 3:
Tumi – Thrive; A Journey of Hope and Resilience
Last month’s number 2 is down at this month’s number 3, a book full of experienced advice for women entering the work place.
Non-fiction number 2:
Nthebe Molope – King Mzilikazi Kamashobane
Three successive months at top spot are at an end. Nthebe’s thoroughly researched and detailed history of a king who ruled much of South Africa and Botswana.
Non-fiction number 1:
Congratulations go to:
Alida and Samantha Toweel – A Fistful of Legends
Thoroughly researched book on South African boxer and Hall of Famer, Willie Toweel and broader South African boxing history.
And finally, to our CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT chart.
In at number 3:
Charley Hall – Whistle in the Fynbos
Number 3 for the second month in a row, beautifully illustrated collection of 4 stories for children.
At number 2:
Jill Morsbach – The Time Twisters
South African dystopian in a future where communication is highly regulated.
And congratulations to this month’s number 1 selling children’s/young adult book
Andrew Redd – Temi and the Vegetable Thief (English)
Top of the charts for the second month in a row, this illustrated book is set in Cape Town and is also available in Afrikaans and Xhosa.
Congratulations to all who made it into this months top 3.
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