The Man Who Died Twice goes thrice for the top spot

Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Viking) has notched up a third week running in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 38,439 copies through Nielsen BookScan's TCM.

The "Pointless" presenter also saw his novels in the top two places in the chart for the second week, as his debut The Thursday Murder Club maintained the runner-up spot.

Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Assassin (HarperCollins) was the highest new entry in the Top 50, debuting in third place with 18,109 copies sold in its first week on sale. It charted second in Original Fiction, with Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land (Fourth Estate) and Stephanie Garber's Once Upon a Broken Heart (Hodder & Stoughton) also entering the category chart's top five.

The Thursday Murder Club chalked up a 19th week as the Mass-Market Fiction number one, as Abigail Dean's Girl A (HarperCollins) and Claire Douglas' The Couple at No 9 (Penguin) debuted in the top three. 

Yotam Ottolenghi and Noor Murad's Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love (Ebury) swiped the Paperback Non-fiction number one, defeating Cathy Glass' An Innocent Baby (HarperCollins). In Hardback Non-fiction, Bob Mortimer's And Away... (Simon & Schuster) claimed the Hardback Non-fiction number one for a third week.

Joe Wicks and Paul Howard's The Burpee Bears (HarperCollins) lunged straight into the Children's number one, selling 10,927 copies in its first week on sale. Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet's Supertato: Night of the Living Veg (S&S Children's) swiped second place, as pre-Halloween stalwart Janet and Allan Ahlberg's Funnybones (Puffin) climbed 11 places to third. 

The print market had another strong week, at 3.9 million books sold for £34.6m, a rise of 4.6% in volume and 3.3% in value week on week.

In the Amazon Charts, Osman and Mortimer also topped Fiction and Non-Fiction.