Sarah J Maas's A Court of Splintered Harmony becomes UK's fastest-selling adult fantasy novel
Sixth Acotar instalment sold 188,914 copies in five days; Bloomsbury reports 1.7m global sales in preorders and first-day sales
Sarah J Maas's return to her A Court of Thorns and Roses series has become the UK's fastest-selling adult fantasy novel since accurate records began in 1998, with A Court of Splintered Harmony selling 188,914 copies in its first five days, according to NielsenIQ BookData. The book is also the fastest-selling hardback novel since Dan Brown's Inferno in 2013, and Bloomsbury says it had the biggest single week of sales for any adult fiction title in the UK since Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman in 2015.