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Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) has notched up a second consecutive week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, with 72,913 copies sold.
The week after it achieved the 2020 Christmas number one, the cosy crime title racked up its fifth week in total as the overall top title and its 11th week as the Original Fiction number one. Excluding lockdown-era sales, Osman's debut has now sold a whisker under 600,000 units in hardback via Nielsen BookScan's UK Total Consumer Market.
Barack Obama's A Promised Land (Viking) held second place and the Hardback Non-fiction number one spot, as Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (Ebury) leapfrogged David Walliams and Tony Ross' Code Name Bananas (HarperCollins) to claim third. The new special edition of Mackesy's title, released in October, shifted a further 9,776 copies, putting the book's combined sales across editions above A Promised Land's volume last week. Tyson Fury's The Furious Method (Century) bounded up 12 places in the Top 50 to sixth.
Adele Parks' Just My Luck (HQ) claimed the Mass-Market Fiction top spot for a second week, as Billy Connolly's Tall Tales and Wee Stories (Two Roads) hit the summit of the Paperback Non-fiction chart for another week.
There were 5.3 million print books sold for £48.7m in the seven days to 26th December, up 3.5% in volume and 2.1% in value year on year, despite bookshop closures across Tier 4 areas. However, 2020's week 52 did include five shopping days in the run up to Christmas, compared to 2019's three days. In the three weeks since the end of Lockdown 2, the market was up 6.3% in volume and 7% in value compared with the same period in 2019.