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Tom Kerridge’s Lose Weight for Good (Absolute) has eased in for a fourth week in total as the UK Official Top 50 number one, selling 34,843 copies for £386,049. The title becomes the first of the year to surpass the 200,000 copies sold mark and, apart from its first week on sale, has yet to drop below the 30,000-copies sold mark per week.
Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (HarperCollins) ballooned 65% in volume week on week to 29,973 copies sold and retaining the Mass Market Fiction number one for a second week. J P Delaney’s The Girl Before (Quercus) made a strong challenge, climbing six places to third overall and improving by 76% in volume on its first three days on sale, but couldn’t topple the Costa First Novel Award winner.
The Costa Book of the Year 2017, Helen Dunmore’s Inside the Wave (Bloodaxe), surged 719% in volume week on week, jumping from 1,000th place to 69th. Its week win volume of 2,809 copies is nearly 40% what the poetry book had sold in total before last week (7,443). Inside the Wave topped the Small Publishers chart and surfed into ninth place in the Paperback Non-Fiction top 20. Alongside the winner and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Jon McGregor’s Novel Award winner Reservoir 13 (Fourth Estate) hit 25th overall and Children’s winner Katherine Rundell’s The Explorer (Bloomsbury Children's) charted 18th in the kids’ book chart.
Jeff Kinney’s Double Down (Puffin) swiped the Children’s number one from David Walliams’ Bad Dad (HarperCollins), denying the comedian-turned-author a 113th week in the top spot overall. Paul Moran’s Where’s the Unicorn (Michael O'Mara), after three straight months atop the Pre-School chart, was finally vanquished by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Zog and the Flying Doctors (Scholastic).
Jojo Moyes’ Still Me (Michael Joseph) held the Original Fiction number one for a second week running, shifting nearly 10,000 copies more than second-placed Julian Barnes’ The Only Story (Jonathan Cape). Leila Slimani’s Lullaby (Faber & Faber) graduated from the Heatseekers number one into the Top 50, allowing Hiro Arikawa’s The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Doubleday) to claw its way to the top.
The print market performed strongly, rising to 3.25 million books sold and just under £28m—a value 2017 didn't reach until mid-September. Compared to the same week a year ago, value was up 6.1% and volume up 4.3%.