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Barack Obama's A Promised Land (Viking) has held the UK Official Top 50 number one for a third week running.
Though Nielsen BookScan was once again unable to provide volume or value data due to England's bookshops being under lockdown for most of the week, publisher Penguin Random House confirmed the former US President's memoir had sold over 66,000 copies in hardback through retailers last week, with its digital editions selling a further 24,251 units. In total, since publication on 17th November, the title has sold over 340,000 copies across all editions over the UK and Ireland.
Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) leapfrogged David Walliams and Tony Ross' Code Name Bananas (HarperCollins) to claim second place, as the title swiped its eighth week in the Original Fiction number one. Douglas Stuart's Booker-winner Shuggie Bain (Picador) bounced into fifth place in the Top 50, holding the Original Fiction runner-up spot, as Maggie O'Farrell's Waterstones Prize-winner Hamnet (Tinder Press) soared back into the category chart's top five.
Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing (Corsair) bounced back into the Mass Market Fiction number one, ending the run of Peter James' Find Them Dead (Pan) in the top spot, as James Patterson's Blindside (Arrow) hit second place.
Code Name Bananas held firm as the Children's number one, as Dav Pilkey's Cat Kid Comic Club (Scholastic) and Karen McManus' The Cousins (Penguin) debuted in the Children's and YA Fiction chart respectively.