Megamonster digs its claws into the top spot for a second week

David Walliams and Tony Ross' Megamonster (HarperCollins Children's Books) has claimed the Official UK Top 50 number one spot for a second week running, selling 49,560 copies. The title scored the author's 68th week in the overall top spot.

Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) and Robert Galbraith's Troubled Blood (Sphere) held second and third place overall for a second week—and the top and runner-up spot in the Mass-Market Fiction chart. The fifth Cormoran Strike title fell just 510 copies short of Osman's blockbuster debut.

The National Portrait Galley's photography book Hold Still, documenting the events of 2020, rocketed back into the Hardback Non-fiction number one, after last hitting the top in mid-May. The title bounced 589% in volume week on week, soaring to 10,315 copies sold.

Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, star of Channel 4's "The Supervet", shot to the top of the Paperback Non-fiction chart with his second memoir, How Animals Saved My Life (Trapeze), selling 4,567 copies.

Karin Slaughter's False Witness (HarperCollins) knocked President Bill Clinton and James Patterson's The President's Daughter (Century) from the top of the Original Fiction top 20, bouncing up one place on its launch week.

Elle McNicoll's A Kind of Spark (Knights Of) electrified the Children's & YA Fiction chart after winning the Waterstones Children's Book Prize last week, bouncing into eighth place. Onjali Q Rauf's 2019 winner The Boy at the Back of the Class (Orion Children's) also rebounded back into the top 10.

The print market continued to look healthy, with 3.4 million books sold for £28.6m last week—an improvement of 7.6% in volume and 1% in value against the same week in 2020.

Over in the Amazon Charts, Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) is number one in Most-Sold: Non-Fiction, despite it being a novel.