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Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light (Fourth Estate) has boomeranged back into the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction number one, defeating Dean Koontz's The Eyes of Darkness (Headline), as primary school study guides thundered into the Most-Sold: Non-Fiction chart. Ten new workbooks flooded into the top 20, forming a clean sweep across the top six, with mathematics books Year 1 Maths: Targeted Practice Workbook (Collins), Times Tables (Libro Studies) and Addition and Subtraction (Collins) particularly popular. Lower Case Letters (Collins) and Telling the Time (Collins)—teach your kids to count down the hours left in quarantine—also hit the Most-Sold: Non-Fiction top 10.
Daisy Upton's Five Minute Mum (Penguin), full of easy-to-set-up activities for parents to do with kids and surely among the fortuitously-timed publications ever, charted in the Most-Sold: Non-Fiction chart for a third week running, in 12th place. A Swear Word Colouring Book for Adults (Honey Badger Colouring)—perhaps the book-buying public venting its frustration over another day spent in the house—entered the top 20 for the first time.
The Mirror and the Light rose up the Most-Read: Fiction chart, breaking the Harry Potter titles' monopoly by claiming fourth place. It also—incredibly, given its 900-page length—earned the "unputdownable" tag, with Kindle and Audible readers finishing it faster than similar books. Self-isolating has its upsides.
Once again, Most-Read: Non-Fiction barely shifted, with Michelle Obama's Becoming (Penguin), Bill Bryson's The Body (Transworld) and Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens (Vintage) continuing to lockdown the top three. However, David Goggins' self-help/memoir Can't Hurt Me (Lioncrest) climbed up the chart to seventh place.