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Rowling's Christmas Pig reigns for a second week at top of chart
J K Rowling's The Christmas Pig (Little, Brown) has notched up a second week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, with 31,565 copies sold through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market.
Billy Connolly's Windswept & Interesting (Two Roads) bounced up into second place, selling 27,657 copies, and held the Hardback Non-Fiction number one for a second week. The comedian's Tall Tales and Wee Stories (Two Rods) also boomeranged back into the Paperback Non-Fiction top 20.
Peter James' Left You Dead (Pan) swiped the Mass Market Fiction number one from Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking), bringing to an end its 11-week streak at the top. This is James' 27th week in the category chart top spot, with the Roy Grace title selling 17,588 copies.
Osman held the Original Fiction number one spot, however, with The Man Who Died Twice (Viking) scoring a sixth week at the top.
Frank Herbert's Dune (Hodder), boosted by the launch of the Timothée Chalamet-led adaptation, notched up editions in both the Original Fiction and Mass Market Fiction top 20s, with the paperback debuting in the Top 50.
Tim Marshall's The Power of Geography (Elliott & Thompson) held the Paperback Non-Fiction number one for another week, selling 8,428 copies.
The Children's chart top three remained steady on the week before, with Tom Fletcher and Shane Devries' The Christmasaurus and the Naughty List (Puffin) and Allan and Janet Ahlberg's Funnybones (Puffin) holding second and third respectively to The Christmas Pig. Australian kids' book superstars Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's The 148-Storey Treehouse (Macmillan Children's) was the highest new entry in fourth place.
The print market slid marginally for the week following Super Thursday. At 4.1 million books sold for £36.4m, volume dropped 0.4% and value 1.7% week on week.
In the Amazon Charts, Claire Douglas' The Couple at No 9 (Penguin) leapfrogged Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Penguin) to hit the Most-Sold: Fiction number one.
