Well It Looks As If This Book Is Going to Be Under Every Christmas Tree in Ireland Then!

She passed away earlier this year but Maeve Binchy is still a firm favourite in the festive book chart with her final novel.

A Week in Winter, which got off to a cracking start with sales, has topped the bestseller list this week which means you have a good chance of opening it on Christmas Day!

Maeve's final book has topped the book charts the week before Christmas.

The book, which was released posthumously, tells the stories of those staying and working in an Irish hotel and has sold over 6,000 copies in the past seven days.

In fact it is selling twice as well as the next fiction novel in the festive book chart, The Shelbourne Ultimatum by Ross O’Carroll-Kelly according to reports

Also in the top ten are Jamie Oliver’s Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals and JR Tolkien’s The Hobbit which has had a surge in popularity due to the release of the film.