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Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson’s Pinch of Nom: Everyday Light (Bluebird) reigned over the UK Official Top 50 for a fourth week in total, with 51,842 copies sold through Nielsen BookScan’s TCM. The original Pinch of Nom also boomeranged back up to second place, with 18,157 copies sold, its highest weekly volume since last June.
Charlie Mackesy‚Äôs The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse (Ebury) may have slid a place to third but with 17,976 copies sold last week—only 181 copies down from Pinch of Nom—it is clearly carving out a space in this year‚Äôs New Year, New You line-up, after playing a starring role in 2019‚Äôs Christmas-gift offerings.
Mark Billingham’s Their Little Secret (Little,Brown) was the highest new entry in fifth, swiping the Mass Market Fiction number one from Lisa Jewell’s The Family Upstairs (Arrow). The Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month, Bridget Collins’ The Binding (The Borough Press), leapt into second place, with Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s Blood & Sugar (Pan), the retailer’s Thriller of the Month, entering the top 20 in 14th place.
Jonathan Coe’s Middle England (Penguin) returned to the Top 50 after its Costa Novel Award win, rising 205% in volume week on week. First Novel Award-winner, Sara Collins’ The Confessions of Frannie Langton (Penguin), also soared in sales, jumping 150% week on week and rising into the top 250. Nizrana Farook’s Children’s Award winner The Girl Who Stole an Elephant (Nosy Crow) shifted 1,961 copies in its second week on sale, rampaging into the Children’s chart and taking the Small Publishers: Children’s number one. Jack Fairweather’s The Volunteer (W H Allen), announced as the Costa Biography of the Year last week, sold 1,714 copies in its first week in paperback.
Lee Child’s Blue Moon (Bantam) re-claimed the Original Fiction number one from Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (Chatto & Windus) for its 10th week in the pole, and for the first time ever, Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamiton) leapfrogged its fellow Booker winner to join Child at the top, in second place.
Karen McManus’ One of Us is Next (Penguin) sold 5,800 copies in its first week on sale, hitting 22nd in the Top 50 and coming second only to David Walliams’ The Beast of Buckingham Palace (HarperCollins) in the Children’s charts. Its predecessor, One of Us is Lying, has sold 229,420 copies in paperback to date. Fellow US YA author Bridget Kemmerer’s A Heart So Fierce and Broken (Bloomsbury YA) joined it in the Children’s and YA Fiction top 20.
After a stunning first week of the year, print continued to perform solidly, with last week's £28.6m earning the third-highest second-week value since records began. Volume was also 2.4% up on the same week last year, at 3.2 million books sold.