Amazon Charts: Mantel maintains Most-Sold number one

Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light (Fourth Estate) has held the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction top spot for a second week, the same week the eagerly awaited title sold 95,141 copies across all print editions through Nielsen BookScan's TCM.

Mantel's original 2009-published Booker winner Wolf Hall also rose 11 places up the chart last week, and sequel Bring Up the Bodies debuted at 18th. Both The Mirror and the Light and Wolf Hall hit the Most-Read: Fiction chart for the first time.

Dean Koontz's The Eyes of Darkness (Headline) charted third for its second week in the Most-Sold: Fiction chart. The 1981-published title unexpectedly went viral a week ago, as its plot concerns a deadly virus, developed in Wuhan, that causes havoc across the world. Luckily the e-book edition means no self-isolating bookbuyers have to venture out of their homes to pick up a copy.

Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses (RHCP) also debuted in Most-Sold: Fiction, as its BBC television adaptation premiered last week.

Sandi Toskvig's memoir Between the Stops (Virago) debuted in the Most-Sold: Non-Fiction top spot, defeating Tyson Fury's Behind the Mask (Cornerstone), which slipped to second place.