Charts: the Oliphant is back in the room

Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Harper) has returned to the UK Official Top 50 number one spot with 22,040 copies sold through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market, ousting Lee Child's The Midnight Line (Bantam) by a scant 657 copies.

This is a sixth overall number one for Honeyman's blockbuster debut in just 14 weeks on sale, and its 11th week as Mass Market Fiction number one. The last Adult Fiction title to reign at the top for as long was Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train (Black Swan), which racked up a total of 12 weeks at number one over the course of 2016 (helped by a speedily put-together Hollywood film adaptation) and sold 1.2 million copies in paperback. Eleanor Oliphant... is so far displaying a similar weekly consistency in sales—in 14 weeks, it has only dropped below 18,000 copies sold per week once, and with its total volume already well past the 300,000-copies-sold mark, it could well have half a million paperback units under its belt before the film adaptation is a twinkle in Reese Witherspoon's eye.

With 11 weeks as the Mass Market Fiction number one, Eleanor Oliphant... is the longest-running debut number one in the category since E L James' Fifty Shades of Grey (Arrow), which scored 19 weeks in 2012.

Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt (Picador), Eleanor Oliphant...'s debut hardback counterpart in non-fiction over 2017, leapt 82% in volume week on week to 16,076 copies, jumping to third overall and holding the Paperback Non-Fiction number one for a second week running. It becomes the highest-selling title in the category since Joe Wicks' The Fat-Loss Plan (Bluebird) in the second week of January.

Henry Firth and Ian Theasby's vegan cookbook BOSH! (HQ) held the Hardback Non-Fiction number one for a second week, with Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time (Allen Lane) rocketing into second, selling 4,804 copies. The physicist's debut Seven Brief Lessons on Physics sold 120,775 copies in the UK in 2016.

Ruth Jones' Never Greener (Bantam) spent a third week as the Original Fiction number one, selling 5,057 copies. Raymond E Feist's King of Ashes (HarperVoyager) was the highest-charting new entry in third, with 2,672 copies sold, and Libby Page's The Lido (Orion) bounced six places upward to claim fourth place.

Matthew Syed's You Are Awesome (Wren & Rook) once again took the Children's number one, the first Children's Non-Fiction title to hit the kids' number one twice in a row since the Star Wars Expert Guide (Dorling Kindersley) in spring 2016. The highest new entry in the Children's chart last week was Peppa Pig's Peppa's Castle Adventure (Ladybird), but Fiona Watt and Rachel Wells' That's Not My Unicorn (Usborne) had a resurgence, alongside a bump in sales for festive-stocking-filler-turned-chart-stalwart Where's the Unicorn? (Michael O'Mara)

The print market bounced back with a vengeance after sliding to record lows for the year to date a week ago—with 3.04 million books sold for £25.4m, it was up 14.6% in volume and 14.1% in value week on week. Up against the same week in 2017, it posted a whopping 6% boost in value. This year is so far even leaving 2016 in the dust, posting a 3.6% jump in value and a 0.3% boost in volume for the first 17 weeks.