Prince Harry’s Spare (Transworld Digital) swiped the Bookstat throne for a second week running, with the memoir holding off a challenge from James Patterson’s Steal (Penguin), which débuted in second place for the week ending 21st January.
Ann Cleeves’ The Sleeping and the Dead (Pan) jumped energetically into third place, with Sara Nisha Adams’ The Reading List (HarperCollins) and Lesley Pearse’s You’ll Never See Me Again (Penguin) also rising.
Mark Billingham’s The Murder Book (Little,Brown) and Cathy Glass’ Unwanted (HarperCollins) débuted in seventh and eighth respectively. Melinda Leigh’s Lie to Her (Montlake) also hit the chart, in 10th.
Spare rocked to the top of the Publisher E-Book Ranking for the week ending 14th January, the same week it claimed the print, Audible and Bookstat number ones, with its £13.99 digital list price making it easily the most expensive e-book in the chart. Another palace title, Miranda Cowley Heller’s The Paper Palace (Penguin), bounced back into the top 10, as Suzanne Wright’s fantasy series opener The Wicked in Me (Little,Brown) scored 10th place.
Clarification: Hachette has stated that The Murder Book sold 5,409 copies; and 1979 4,490 copies.