Osman boomerangs back to top of the charts

Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) has returned to the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a fourth week, after being knocked from the top a week ago by E L James' Freed (Arrow).

The cosy crime title, which sold 28,383 copies last week, has now racked up the most non-consecutive number ones for a paperback Adult Fiction title since Heather Morris' The Tattooist of Auschwitz in winter 2018.

Joe Wicks' Joe's Family Food (Bluebird) jumped into second place, debuting in the Hardback Non-Fiction number one spot with 26,894 copies sold—fewer than 1,500 away from Osman's number one. Wicks has notched up a record number of poles in the Paperback Non-Fiction chart, with 70 number ones, but this is just his ninth Hardback Non-Fiction top spot, following on from Wean in 15 during Lockdown 1.0 last year.

President Bill Clinton and James Patterson's The President's Daughter (Century) was inaugurated as the Original Fiction number one, selling 7,079 copies in its first week on sale. The duo's first title, The President is Missing (Century), shifted over a quarter of a million copies across all print editions and its hardback became a go-to Father's Day gift in summer 2018. Ava Reid's The Wolf and the Woodsman (Del Rey) debuted in second place in the category chart, with Meg Mason's Sorrow and Bliss (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and Stacey Halls' Mrs England (Zaffre) also charting in the top five.

Davinia Taylor's It's Not a Diet (Orion) burpee'd into the Paperback Non-Fiction number one, ending the two-week run of Raynor Winn's The Wild Silence (Penguin) at the top.

Marcus Rashford and Carl Anka's You Are a Champion (Macmillan Children's) kept a cool head in the Children's number one spot for a third week on the trot. Meghan Markle and Christian Robinson's The Bench (Puffin) was the highest new entry in the overall kid's chart and scored second in the Pre-School chart, but couldn't topple Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's long-running Pre-School number one Cat's Cookbook (Macmillan Children's).

Though Adam Silvera's They Both Die at the End (S&S Children's) spent another week as the Children's and YA Fiction number one, Faridah √Äbíké-√çyímídé's Ace of Spades (Usborne) debuted in the runner-up spot, just above Steven and Anita Mangan's Escape the Rooms (Scholastic).

The print market held steady last week, selling 3.26 million books for £27.5m—a 0.4% drop in volume but a 2% rise in value week on week.

In the Amazon charts, The Thursday Murder Club has once again held the Amazon Charts Most-Sold: Fiction number one spot.