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Tyson Fury's memoir Behind the Mask (Cornerstone) has rocketed to the top of the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Non-Fiction chart, for the week leading up to his win on Saturday against Deontay Wilder to become the WBC boxing heavyweight champion of the world. The title earned the "highly quotable" tag, with Kindle readers highlighting more passages in Behind the Mask than similar books. Through Nielsen BookScan's TCM, the title bounced 13% in volume week on week.
Matt Haig's 2015-published title Reasons to Stay Alive (Canongate) charted for the first time in third place, with more Audible listeners than Kindle readers. For the week following the death of Caroline Flack, it leapt 334% in volume week on week through the TCM.
Ali Mercer's His Secret Family (Bookouture) leapfrogged Marian Keyes' Grown Ups (Penguin) to claim the Most-Sold: Fiction number one, with Alex North's The Whisper Man (Penguin) joining it in second place. Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light (Fourth Estate) also debuted in the Most-Sold chart, with two weeks still to go before publication of the third Cromwell title.
Rivers of London fans were clearly keen to get cracking on the eighth book—Ben Aaronovitch's False Value (Gollancz) charted in seventh place in Most-Sold and eleventh in Most-Read for the same week.