If you comb through the most anticipated novels of 2022, the super bestseller "Thursday Reasoning Club", which will be launched by Relay Press in April 2022, must be on the list of many people.
"Thursday Reasoning Club" tells the story of four "easy chair detectives" who live in a high-end pension village in the British countryside, form a "Thursday Reasoning Club" in a nursing home, and get together every Thursday to analyze various unsolved cases. One day, a serial case really occurred in the nursing home, and they each played a hidden skill to detect the cases that occurred around them. The case in the book is confusing, the number of suspects is large, there are many doubts, and the author uses his superb writing skills not only anti-routine reasoning - no earth-shattering reversal, no strange motive, no large paragraphs of reasoning, but also makes people want to read, and the language is beautiful and funny, with the humor and poetry unique to the British.
It is reported that the novel was first published in the UK in September 2020, and continued to occupy the top position in the total list of Amazon books in the UK after listing, and finally became the best-selling new book in the UK in 2020 with 3 months of sales. This explosion continues to this day, and to date, the book has sold 2.57 million copies in the UK, which is called a "phenomenon-level publication" by professional book data company Nielsen. The Thursday Reasoning Club has also achieved global success, with copyrights sold to 43 countries and territories to date. Among them, the sales volume of the US version exceeded 100,000 copies in the three months of listing, and by the end of 2021, the sales volume exceeded 390,000 copies; the Sales volume of the German edition reached 180,000 copies; and it has also become a super bestseller in Brazil, Japan, Iceland, Sweden, Finland and Portugal.
The author, Richard Osman, is a British television personality who, in addition to hosting popular shows, has also held several positions as a director, producer and comedian, but his ultimate dream is to be a writer. Osman began writing in middle age, and his debut novel "Thursday Reasoning Club" was released at the height of the epidemic in the United Kingdom, and immediately became a dark horse in sales.
"Thursday Reasoning Club" is not only sought after by many readers in Europe and the United States, but also favored by the well-known director Spielberg, who founded Amblin Entertainment has bought the film and television adaptation rights to the book, and the film and television work of the same name is in production. It is understood that in the author Osman's writing plan, "Thursday Reasoning Club" is a series of novels, and he will create four works for the series. The second part of The Thursday Reasoning Club, published in the UK in September 2021, continues to feature four 80-year-old "Easy Chair Detectives" of the Thursday Reasoning Club as their new cases. The book continues the best-selling gene of the "Thursday Reasoning Club" series, and is the fastest selling new book on record in the British book market - selling more than 100,000 copies in the first week of listing and selling more than 500,000 copies in the second month of listing.
The reporter learned that the copyright of the Chinese Simplified version of the second part of the "Thursday Reasoning Club" has also been collected by Relay Publishing House and is scheduled to be listed at the end of 2022.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Zhiyi
Editor/Cui Wei