Just how numerically illiterate does The Guardian think its readers are? This report claims that Philip Pullman has outdone J K Rowling in terms of UK sales figures. Take a closer look at the fine print: Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, as in all three books combined, outsells any individual Potter book. The Babu plans to set his team of fierce, Dobermanesque backroom beancounters on the staff member who wrote this.