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Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (Tinder) has maintained the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a third week in total, selling 16,482 copies through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market. There were just under 500 copies separating Hamnet and runner-up, Douglas Stuart's Booker-winner Shuggie Bain (Picador), which notched up a second consecutive week in second place.
Tim Marshall's The Power of Geography (Elliott & Thompson) made its debut in the Top 50 in 13th place, hitting third in Hardback Non-Fiction and charting top of the Small Publisher top 10. Marshall's 2016 blockbuster Prisoners of Geography boomeranged back into the Small Publishers chart in 10th place. Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse (Ebury) re-claimed the Hardback Non-Fiction number one, with the previous week's bestseller, Grace Beverley's Working Hard, Hardly Working (Hutchinson), falling to fifth.
Hamnet secured a third week atop the Mass Market Fiction chart. It was another strong week for paperback fiction, with the top seven titles in the overall Top 50 and the entire Mass Market Fiction top 20 charting inside the top 31. Annie Murray's Black Country Orphan (Pan) debuted in 17th place.
The Official Highway Code (TSO) zoomed into the Paperback Non-Fiction number one for the first time since August 2014, as driving tests resumed last week in England and Wales. The Official DVSA Theory Test for Car Drivers (TSO) also reversed back into the category top 20.
Dav Pilkey's Dog Man 10: Mothering Heights (Scholastic) and Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks' What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside (Alison Green) once again claimed the Children's and YA Fiction and the Pre-School number ones, respectively. The 2018 edition of Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone (Orion Children's) charted 11th in Children's and YA Fiction, as its adaptation dropped on Netflix.
After a stunning first week back for bookshops a week ago, the print market fell back 15% in volume and 15.6% in value, to 3.1 million books sold for £26.5m. However, this was an entirely average week for spring book sales, improving 0.9% in volume and 4.8% in value on the same week in pre-pandemic 2019.