Amazon Charts: The Flatshare rooms at the top

Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare (Quercus) has continued to top the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction chart, notching up a third week in the number one spot.

While Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light (Fourth Estate) may have defined the early part of lockdown, as self-isolators got a chance to crack into the 900-page literary doorstopper, The Flatshare seems to be the book of lockdown's second wave—a comforting, romantic read which happens to be about two people living together in a small space. The Harry Potter books, specifically Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Pottermore/Bloomsbury) in 10th place, and Nicola May's The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay in 18th also represent the rise of soothing reads over the past few weeks.

The Flatshare also climbed three places to fifth in the Most-Read: Fiction chart, joining three Harry Potter titles and The Mirror and the Light at the top.

Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt (Picador) topped the Most-Sold: Non-Fiction chart, the same week it scored another week as the Paperback Non-Fiction number one in the Nielsen BookScan print charts. Primary school-level educational workbooks were still dominant, as Spelling Ages 5-6 (Collins) bounced into the top three.

While the top three Most-Read: Non-Fiction stalwarts—Michelle Obama's Becoming (Penguin), This is Going to Hurt and Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens (Vintage)—once again remained solid, self-help titles were popular, with David Goggins' Can't Hurt Me (Lioncrest) and James Clear's Atomic Habits (Cornerstone) rising.