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Victoria Hislop’s Cartes Postales from Greece (Headline) has once again voyaged into the Official UK Top 50 number one spot, selling 27,201 copies for £116,694—a 19.3% boost week on week. It shifted a healthy 14,031 copies more than second-placed James Patterson & Maxine Paetro’s 16th Seduction (Arrow).
All five category chart number ones held on from the week before. Joshua Levine’s Dunkirk (William Collins), hitting the Paperback Non-Fiction number one for a fifth consecutive week, was the sole male-authored title to take a top spot. Phillippa Gregory’s The Last Tudor (Simon & Schuster) gripped the Original Fiction number one for a second week, while Cartes Postales from Greece took the Mass Market Fiction number one again—the first book with non-English words in the title to crest the chart.
Nadiya’s British Food Adventure (Michael Joseph) swiped the Hardback Non-Fiction number one for a fifth week running. Two more weeks will give her the longest consecutive run at the top of the chart since Guinness World Records 2015 in December 2014.
J K Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Sphere) once again clenched the Children’s number one, with Fiona Watt and Rachel Wells’ That’s Not My Unicorn (Usborne) running away with the Pre-School top spot. Nicola Yoon's Everything, Everything (Corgi Children's) was boosted up the Children's and YA Fiction top 20, after its film adaptation hit UK cinemas.
The latest W H Smith Richard & Judy Book Club picks vaulted up the chart, with Fiona Neill’s The Betrayals (Penguin) leapfrogging Sandrone Dazieri’s Kill the Father (Simon & Schuster) to take 10th place, and Ali Land’s Good Me Bad Me (Penguin) rising to 13th. Rachel Rhys’ Dangerous Crossing (Black Swan) and Amy Engel’s Roanoke Girls (Hodder) entered the Top 50 for the first time.
L S Hilton’s Domina (Zaffre) was the highest new entry, in 21st place with 5,870 copies sold. Tim Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography (Elliott & Thompson) returned to the Top 50 for the first time since September 2016, after its tenure as Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month finished. It has racked up 56 weeks in the Paperback Non-Fiction top 20 since publication.
The market dipped below £25m in value for the first time since the end of June, but only just—it pulled in £24.91m, with 3.1 million books sold. Year on year, 2017 has bounced back after 2016's Cursed Child boost—on the same week a year ago, it lagged behind by only 0.5% in volume, and was 0.5% ahead in value, boosting average selling price by 8p to £7.98.