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'Galbraith' claims third straight number one
Robert Galbraith’s Career of Evil (Sphere) has defeated the Star Wars Expert Guide (Dorling Kindersley) to take the Official UK Top 50 number one spot.
This is J K Rowling’s third Galbraith paperback to go to number one, after The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm both also hit the top spot in the same format. Career of Evil, in which private detective Cormoran Strike is sent a woman’s severed leg, sold 18,591 copies for £75,847, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market.
Career of Evil increased its volume 10.5% on its first week on sale, holding the Mass Market Fiction number one for a second week. It is only the third Adult Fiction title to take the overall number one so far this year, with Sylvia Day’s One with You (Penguin) and Lee Child’s Make Me (Bantam) both hitting the top spot in the last six weeks.
Joe Wicks continues his unstoppable run of success with Lean in 15 (Bluebird), rising back up to second place overall and re-taking the Paperback Non-Fiction number one from Bill Bryson’s The Road to Little Dribbling (Black Swan). This is Wicks’ 16th non-consecutive Paperback pole position, though just ten copies separated his and Bryson’s book. Bryson can comfort himself with the fact that his 2008 title, Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (HarperPerennial), which was boosted into the Top 50 following the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death a week ago, continued to climb, hitting 25th place last week.
Eight out of the last week’s top 10 were paperback fiction titles, with Make Me leapfrogging David Lagercrantz’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web (Maclehose Press) and Jonas Jonasson’s Hitman Anders and the Meaning of it All (Fourth Estate) shooting up 16 places to take eighth. Bernard Cornwell’s Warriors of the Storm (Harper) also inched up, to fifth place, and Carole Matthews’ The Chocolate Lovers’ Wedding (Sphere) entered the top 10.
A total of 34 paperback fiction titles charted inside the Top 50 last week, with only one lone hardback fiction title— David Baldacci’s The Last Mile (Macmillan), which took the Original Fiction number one for a second week.
Scarlett “Gogglebox” Moffatt’s Scarlett Says (Boxtree) zoomed up 61 places to take the Hardback Non-Fiction number one from The Unmumsy Mum, shifting 3,416 copies, while fellow Geordie reality TV star Charlotte Crosby’s Live Fast Lose Weight (Headline) dropped to 45th place.
