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Mrs Hinch's The Little Book of Lists (Michael Joseph) has swept straight into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, ending the four-week reign of Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light (Fourth Estate) at the top.
With market data and volume and value sales figures still unavailable from Nielsen BookScan, the Instagram "cleanfluencer" swiped the number one position for last week, beating David Walliams and Tony Ross' Slime (HarperCollins) to the top.
The Little Book of Lists was joined by its predecessors in the Hinch oeuvre, October's The Activity Journal, in sixth place, and April 2019's Hinch Yourself Happy, in 39th.
James Patterson and Candice Fox's The Inn (Arrow) leapfrogged Jeffrey Archer's Nothing Ventured (Pan) for the Mass Market Fiction number one, with Lee Child's Blue Moon (Bantam) the highest new entry in third place.
The Mirror and the Light notched up a fifth week in the Original Fiction top spot, despite Polly Samson's A Theatre for Dreamers (Bloomsbury Circus) and Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (Tinder) debuting in the top four. Lynda La Plante's Buried (Zaffre) and Kate Elizabeth Russell's My Dark Vanessa (Fourth Estate) also charted in the top 10 in their first weeks on sale.
Walliams swept the Children's charts, with Children's and YA Fiction returning a Walliams-and-Ross top three, as Slime was joined by The Beast of Buckingham Palace and The Ice Monster. Derek Landy's latest Skulduggery Pleasant title Seasons of War (HarperCollins) and Anthony Horowitz's Nightshade (Walker) also debuted in the top five.
Primary and pre-school educational titles were still strong but seasonal Easter titles also muscled into the kids' charts, with Martha Mumford and Laura Hughes' We're Going on an Egg Hunt (Bloomsbury) and Chuck Whelon's Where's the Bunny? (Buster) hitting the Top 50. Sticker book Disney Frozen 2: Arundelle Activities (Autumn) swiped the Pre-School number one, charting fourth overall, as the Harry Potter Colouring Book (Studio Press) and The Puzzle Activity Book (Buster) climbed.
Daisy Upton's Five Minute Mum (Penguin) held the Paperback Non-Fiction number one slot for a second week, with Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt (Picador) maintaining second. Matthew Syed's Rebel Ideas (John Murray) was the highest new entry in third.
Mrs Hinch may have brought Charlie Mackesy's reign with The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse (Ebury) in the Hardback Non-Fiction number to an end, but it remained in the overall top five. It's barely left the top of the charts since publication six months ago. Elsewhere in Hardback Non-Fiction, cookbooks were chock-a-block in the top 10, and Julia Samuel's This Too Shall Pass (Penguin Life) clearly struck a chord, hitting 19th place.