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Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (Tinder Press) has topped the UK Official Top 50 chart through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market, shifting 22,912 copies in its first week on sale.
The Women's Prize-winner and Waterstones' Book of the Year 2020 becomes O'Farrell's first number one title in the Nielsen BookScan era and scores her first Mass Market Fiction top spot.
James Patterson and Adam Hamdy's Private Moscow (Arrow) also entered the top 10 in fifth place, as Shari Lapena's The End of Her (Corgi), Harriet Tyce's The Lies You Told (Wildfire) and Jenny Colgan's Five Hundred Miles from You (Sphere) hit the Top 50 in their launch week.
Chefs at Home (John Croft), a cookbook featuring the lockdown recipes of chefs such as Tom Kerridge, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay, and published to raise money for Hospitality UK, made its debut in seventh place overall, selling 8,242 copies last week.
Reverend Richard Coles' The Madness of Grief (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and US Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman's The Hill We Climb (Chatto & Windus), the poem she read at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration in January, debuted in the Hardback Non-Fiction chart.
Piers Morgan's Wake Up (HarperCollins), which rebounded into the Hardback Non-Fiction chart a few weeks ago after the TV presenter stepped down from his role on ITV show "Good Morning Britain", made its debut in the Paperback Non-Fiction number one spot, leapfrogging Michelle Obama's Becoming (Penguin).
Leigh Bardugo's second King of Scars book Rule of Wolves (Orion Children's) went straight into the Children's number one spot, with 8,239 copies sold. Pre-school Easter titles also featured—Martha Mumford and Sarah Jennings' Five Little Easter Bunnies (Bloomsbury Children's) once again topped the Pre-School and Picture Book chart, as nine other seasonal titles rolled into the kids' top 20.
A total of 3.4 million books worth £28.1m were sold, up 1.6% in volume and 0.5% in value week on week.