Amazon Charts: Rooney scores a blinder

Sally Rooney's Normal People (Faber) has soared six places up the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction chart to score the number one. The Nibbies Book of the Year 2019 was boosted by its BBC TV adaptation which dropped on BBC iPlayer last week—and reportedly garnered 16.2 million requests through the streaming service. Rooney's debut Conversations with Friends also hit the top 20, in 15th place.

Normal People also debuted in sixth place in the Most-Read: Fiction top 20. Since lockdown began, the Harry Potter titles—clearly boosted by the nation's turn to comfort reading—have nevertheless lost their stranglehold on the top of the Most-Read: Fiction chart, implying the bookbuying public is cracking into their purchases immediately. Alongside Normal People, quarantine favourites The Mirror and the Light (Fourth Estate) and The Flatshare (Quercus) charted high in Most-Read: Fiction.

Joe Wicks' baby-feeding guide Wean in 15 (Bluebird) bunny-hopped into the Most-Sold: Non-Fiction number one ahead of its publication. Adam Buxton's Ramble Book (Mudlark) debuted in fourth.

We can now say without a doubt that it takes more than a global pandemic to move Michelle Obama's Becoming (Penguin) from the Most-Read: Non-Fiction top spot, with the former First Lady's memoir notching up another week at the top, in its 42nd week in the chart.