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Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Zaffre) has secured a fourth non-consecutive week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 17,106 copies through Nielsen BookScan’s TCM—a bump of 11% in volume week on week.
It also secured a 17th week as the Mass Market Fiction number one, overtaking Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine’s run at the top of the category chart. The Tattooist...'s near-consecutive streak, broken only once by A J Finn’s The Woman in the Window (HarperCollins), is now the longest for any title in Mass Market Fiction since The Girl on the Train’s 29-week run across summer and autumn 2016.
Lisa Jewell’s Watching You (Arrow) bounced upwards into second place—a personal best chart ranking for the author—improving 49% in volume on its launch week. Lynda La Plante’s Murder Mile (Zaffre) also soared, increasing its volume by 61% on its launch week and charting just below Stuart MacBride’s The Blood Road (HarperCollins), which held third place.
Bart van Es’ Costa Book of the Year The Cut Out Girl (Penguin) made its debut in the Top 50, jumping 448% in volume and leaping 193 places. The last biography to win the overall Costa title was Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk (Vintage) in 2014, which went on to sell 290,000 copies.
Though Craig Smith and Katz Cowley’s The Wonky Donkey (Scholastic) held the overall Children’s number one for a fourth consecutive week, Brigid Kemmerer’s A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Bloomsbury) was the highest new entry in kids’ books, swiping the Children’s Fiction and YA number one from David Walliams and Tony Ross’ The Ice Monster (HarperCollins). The modern re-telling of Beauty and the Beast scored Kemmerer’s biggest-ever single week sale of 5,639 copies sold, having never topped 2,000 units in seven days beforehand. It was a strong week for US YA fantasy, as Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars (Orion Children's) debuted at 30th place in the Top 50.
The print market inched upwards by 0.4% in volume and 0.5% in value week on week. However, against a strong week in 2018 when Tom Kerridge's Lose Weight for Good, Eleanor Oliphant..., J P Delaney's The Girl Before and Michael Connelly's The Late Show all outsold The Tattooist... last week, the year-on-year figures fell short, with a drop of 7% in volume and 5% in value.