Fiction: Osman boomerangs back to the top
Richard Osman’s The Man Who Died Twice (Penguin) boomeranged back to the Mass-Market Fiction number one, notching up its seventh week in the category pole (and the author’s 38th). Liane Moriarty’s Apples Never Fall (Penguin) and John Grisham’s The Judge’s List (Hodder & Stoughton) débuted in the top six, with Paula Hawkins’ A Slow Fire Burning (Penguin) débuting in 13th.
After a long tenure as perhaps the most successful Fiction Heatseeker ever, Amor Towles graduated into the Top 50, with The Lincoln Highway (Penguin) charting 39th. A Gentleman in Moscow scored five weeks in the Fiction Heatseeker number one and became a stalwart in the weekly top 20, shifting nearly 300,000 copies in paperback over the past four and half years.
Reverend Richard Coles’ Murder Before Evensong (W&N) graced the Original Fiction number one for a fifth week, but only by the very skin of its teeth—Jessie Burton’s The House of Fortune (Picador) sold just 96 units fewer. New titles barraged into the category top 20, with Lesley Pearse’s Deception (Michael Joseph), Tess Gerritsen’s Listen to Me (Bantam), Danielle Steel’s Suspects (Macmillan) and Adele Parks’ One Last Secret (HQ) hitting the top seven.
