Beth O’Leary’s The No-Show (Quercus) made itself visible atop the Bookstat chart, reigning for a second week in the number one spot for the week ending 6th August. O’Leary has form with the digital charts—The Flatshare spent pretty much the whole of Lockdown 1.0 in the Bookstat top 10.
C L Taylor’s The Guilty Couple (Avon) débuted in second, as Lucy Clarke’s One of the Girls (HarperCollins) bounced upwards to third. The current print number one, Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us (S&S), jumped into seventh place, closely followed by Lisa Regan’s Local Girl Missing (Bookouture).
Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing (Little, Brown) held the Publisher E-Book Ranking number one for the week ending 6th August, as Miranda Cowley Heller’s The Paper Palace (Penguin) boomeranged back into the runner-up spot. John Connolly’s The Furies (Hodder & Stoughton) débuted in third, with Karen Rose’s Quarter to Midnight (Headline) clocking in at fourth. David Baldacci’s The 6.20 Man (Macmillan) charted sixth, the same week its hardback made its début in the Original Fiction chart, and Clare Mackintosh’s The Last Party (Bookoture) dished up the jelly and ice cream in ninth.
Clarification Hachette has stated that The No-Show has sold 11,037 copies, Where the Crawdads Sing 5,879, Local Girl Missing 4,550 and Should I Tell You? 6,146.