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Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) has scored a fifth week as the UK Official Top 50 number one, selling 29,953 copies. Although the paperback was published over a month ago, its volume improved by 6% week on week. This edition of the cosy crime title has now sold 225,000 copies in total.
Dilly Court's Fortune's Daughter (HarperCollins) leapt to second place, with Philippa Gregory's Dark Tides (Simon & Schuster) rising to third. The Mass Market Fiction chart remained strong, with Charles Cumming's BOX 88 (HarperCollins), Lucy Diamond's The Promise (Pan) and Jill Mansell's And Now You're Back (Headline) debuting in the top 20.
Fomer US President Bill Clinton and James Patterson's The President's Daughter (Century) held the Original Fiction number one for a second week, as Peter James' Left You Dead (Macmillan) and John Grisham's Sooley (Hodder & Stoughton) returning to the top three.
Tom Kerridge's Outdoor Cooking (Bloomsbury Absolute) reclaimed the Hardback Non-Fiction number one spot from Joe Wicks' Joe's Family Food (Bluebird). John Nichol's Tornado (Simon & Schuster) rocketed into third place, as Damien Lewis' SAS Great Escapes (Quercus) and Max Hastings' Operation Pedestal (William Collins) got a Father's Day boost up the chart.
Ant Middleton's Zero Negativity (HarperCollins) also zoomed into the Paperback Non-Fiction number one. His debut memoir First Man In (HarperCollins) was the Hardback Non-Fiction bestseller for five weeks across June 2018, spiking on Father's Day. Ben Macintyre's Agent Sonya (Penguin) and Lewis' SAS Band of Brothers (Quercus) also bounced up the chart.
Of course, the Children's chart saw the biggest Father's Day effect. Marcus Rashford made decidedly more impact on the Children's number one than the England versus Scotland game on Friday night, scoring a fourth week in the kids' top spot with You Are a Champion, co-authored with Carl Anka (Macmillan Children's). But Roger Hargreaves' Mr Men Little Miss My Daddy (Farshore) knocked Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's Cat's Cookbook (Macmillan Children's) from the Pre-School number one, with Peppa Pig's I Love You, Daddy Pig (Ladybird) and Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter and Garry Parson's The Dinosaur That Pooped Daddy! (Red Fox) charting high in the top 20.
Father's Day fuelled market growth, with print jumping 6.1% in volume and 5.4% in value week on week.
In the Amazon charts, The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) and Tom Kerridge's Outdoor Cooking (Bloomsbury Absolute) have also hit the top spot.