Slime bags a second week in the charts top spot

David Walliams' Slime (HarperCollins) has oozed into a second week as the UK Official Top 50 number one. Nielsen BookScan was once again unable to provide sales figures or market data, though the positional rankings showed some movement in the chart in the week following the Easter bank holiday.

Lee Child's Blue Moon (Bantam) leapfrogged Mrs Hinch's The Little Book of Lists (Michael Joseph) to swipe second place overall. Adult Fiction titles made up a hefty proportion of the Top 50, with 31 titles. Michael Connelly's The Night Fire (Orion) debuted in second place in Mass Market Fiction while Liane Moriarty's 2012 title The Hypnotist's Love Story (Penguin) bounced into 11th place. Ahead of its BBC television adaptation starting next week, Sally Rooney's Normal People (Faber) returned to the top 20.

After a regal six-week reign in the Original Fiction chart's top spot, Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light (Fourth Estate) was toppled by Giovanna and Tom Fletcher's The Eve Illusion (Michael Joseph), which ascended into the top spot. This represents the married co-authors' debut in the category top spot, with their sequel to Eve of Man, though they have separately topped Hardback Non-Fiction and Children's with their solo efforts, respectively.

Walliams' Tony Ross-illustrated children's title topped a kids' chart full to the brim with educational workbooks and classic fiction titles. After a boost in the first few weeks after schools were closed and the UK went into lockdown, primary school-level study guides quietened down a little—however, last week, with the end of the Easter school holidays looming, saw them burst back into the Children's top 20. Seven workbooks hit the Top 50, with 19 Collins titles in the Children's Non-Fiction top 20.

The entire Harry Potter series charted in the Children's and YA Fiction top 20, as the Bookstat chart showed a boost for the e-book editions too. It's possible these sales could be down to nostalgia, as Millennials finally have time on their hands to re-read the entire 3,407-page series.

The Little Book of Lists scored a third week as the Hardback Non-Fiction number one, though cookbooks were rife in the chart—particuarly those from (currently closed) restaurants, including Dishoom and Wagamama. The Paperback Non-Fiction top 20 was once again topped by Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt (Picador), released two years ago last week and on its 56th number one in the category chart, though activity and colouring books continued to perform strongly. Tellingly, the Times Big Book of Crosswords (Times), published four years ago, debuted in 20th place.