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Rowling's Christmas Pig jingles all the way to number one
J K Rowling's The Christmas Pig (Little, Brown) has flown directly into the Official UK Top 50 number one spot, selling 60,010 copies in its first week on sale. The title is Rowling's 16th book to chart in the number one spot, including the five-part Cormoran Strike series, written as Robert Galbraith, and her 85th week in the top spot overall since Nielsen records began in 1998.
Super Thursday saw an avalanche of new titles roll into the charts and the print market surpassed £37m for the first time this year, rising 2.1% in volume and 2.3% in value week on week to 4.19 million books sold for £37.03m.
Tom Fletcher and Shane Devries' The Christmasaurus and the Naughty List (Puffin) scored second place, with 33,074 copies sold in its first week, and Billy Connolly's Windswept and Interesting (Two Roads) swiped the Hardback Non-fiction number one from Dave Grohl's The Storyteller (Simon & Schuster).
The Hardback Non-fiction top 20 had 13 new entries, with Nigel Slater's A Cook's Book (Fourth Estate), Joan Collins' My Unapologetic Diaries (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and Rob Beckett's A Class Act (HarperCollins) zipping into the top 10.
Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Viking) held the Original Fiction number one against a barrage of new entries, with John le Carré's Silverview (Viking), Jeffrey Archer's Over My Dead Body (HarperCollins) and Sophie Kinsella's The Party Crasher (Bantam) debuting.
Seasonal fiction was all over the Mass-Market Fiction chart, with Dilly Court's Winter Wedding (HarperCollins) charting second to Richard Osman's long-running number one The Thursday Murder Club (Viking). Cathy Bramley's The Merry Christmas Project (Orion), Karen Swan's Midnight in the Snow (Pan) and Katie Flynn's White Christmas (Arrow) also sleighed into the top 20.
Tim Marshall's The Power of Geography (Elliott & Thompson) leapfrogged Yotam Ottolenghi and Noor Murad's Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love (Ebury) to claim the Paperback Non-fiction number one. Incredibly, given the epic run of predecessor Prisoners of Geography in the category chart, this is the author's first category chart number one.
In the Amazon Charts, Billy Connolly's Windswept & Interesting topped Most-Sold: Non-Fiction.
