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Thanks to a 37,450 seven-day sale Ian Rankin's Doors Open is this week's new number one. It means that publisher Orion has enjoyed three consecutive number ones (over a five-week period) following the two weeks each that Linwood Barclay's Too Close to Home and Maeve Binchy's Heart and Soul spent at the summit of the Official UK Top 50. It is the first time a publisher has managed the feat in more than six years.
Courtesy of the its film adaptation hitting UK cinemas, Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife (Vintage) climbs nine places into second position overall, while last week's number one, Too Close to Home, falls to third.
This week's highest new entry into the Top 50 is Ruth Rendell's Portobello (Arrow), which charts in 27th position with a 9,269 seven-day sale—one position behind Emily Herbert's behind-the-headlines probings Katie and Peter: Too Much in Love (John Blake).
Stephenie Meyer continues to enjoy five places in the Official UK Top 50 courtesy of her four Twilight novels and her adult thriller, The Host (Sphere), while both the late Stieg Larsson and journalist Chris Cleave enjoy two entries each.
Cleave's The Other Hand (Sceptre) has sold an impressive 238,400 copies to date in its mass-market edition and sits in 38th position overall. Meanwhile, his 2005 London terrorism thriller, Incendiary (Sceptre), which hit the headlines back in 2005 as it was coincidentally published on the same day as the 7th July bombings, joins the list in a re-vamped 2009 edition.
According to Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market data, just shy of £29m was spent at UK book retailers last week, down 2.3% week on week, but down just 1.5% on the same week last year, when Rankin's Exit Music (Orion) topped the charts.