The Man Who Died Twice doubles up for a second week at the top

Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Viking) has claimed the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a second week running, selling 60,992 copies.

With The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) bouncing upwards to hit second place, Osman achieves the rare feat of two books in the top two places in the chart. Paula Hawkins did it with two different editions of The Girl on the Train (Black Swan) during the run of the psychological thriller's adaptation in cinemas in 2016, and E L James achieved it with Fifty Shades of Grey and Fifty Shades Darker (Arrow) in 2012.

Once again, Osman also held both fiction top spots, with The Man Who Died Twice scoring its second week atop Original Fiction and The Thursday Murder Club notching up its 18th as Mass Market Fiction number one.

Bob Mortimer's And Away... (S&S) hit the Hardback Non-Fiction top spot for a second week, with Jamie Oliver's Together (Michael Joseph) and Miriam Margoyles' This Much is True (John Murray) holding second and third place respectively. 

David Jason's A Del of Life (Arrow) was the highest new entry in the Top 50, debuting in the Paperback Non-Fiction chart in second place, as Cathy Glass' An Innocent Baby (HarperCollins) held the top spot.

Marcus Rashford and Carl Anka's You Are a Champion (Macmillan Children's) boomeranged back into the Children's number one spot for the first time since mid-June. The Pre-School chart readied itself for October, as Janet and Allan Ahlberg's Funnybones (Puffin) made its annual return to the top 20.

After the previous week set the record for September, last week's sales dipped slightly. However, at 3.75 million books sold for £33.5m, the print market was still at a very healthy level.

Osman also did the double in the Amazon Charts this week.