Roshani Chokshi’s The Last Tale of the Flower Bride (Hodder) brought Jojo Moyes’ Someone Else’s Shoes (Michael Joseph) to heel, leapfrogging it for the Original Fiction number one. Stuart MacBride’s The Dead of Winter (Bantam), Gregg Hurwitz’s The Last Orphan (Michael Joseph) and Rosie Goodwin’s A Lesson Learned (Zaffre) also filed in.
Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us (S&S) re-claimed the Mass Market Fiction number one, displacing Dilly Court’s Dolly’s Dream (HarperCollins) after two weeks at the top, and beating David Baldacci’s The 6.20 Man (Pan) to the top. Katie Flynn’s A Rose and a Promise (Penguin), Tim Weaver’s The Blackbird (Penguin) and Lynda La Plante’s Dark Rooms (Bonnier) also made their débuts in the top 20. Despite a seven-year-old book topping the Mass Market Fiction chart, Adult Fiction continued to look sickeningly healthy, with volume rising 3.5% and value 6.7% against the same week in 2022.