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The Thursday Murder Club books in another week at the top
Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) has once again claimed the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 46,865 copies for its second week at the top.
This was a near-identical volume to its launch week, when it sold 44,096 copies. The paperback notched up a second week atop the Mass Market Fiction chart, as the hardback charted fourth in Original Fiction.
Michael Connelly's The Law of Innocence (Penguin) climbed seven places up the Top 50 to score the runner-up spot in both the overall chart and the Mass Market Fiction top 20. Sue Moorcroft's Under the Italian Sun (Avon) and Lynda La Plante's Cold Blood (S&S) both debuted in the Top 50 as A J Finn's The Woman in the Window (HarperCollins) returned, with its Netflix adaptation tie-in edition scoring 49th place.
Peter James' Left You Dead (Macmillan) scored a second week as the Original Fiction number one, as Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun (Faber) rose back up to second place.
Daniel Howell's mental health guide You Will Get Through This Night (HQ) debuted in the Hardback Non-Fiction number one slot, charting in third overall, with 13,789 copies sold. This is Howell's second top spot in the category chart, following his and YouTube channel partner Phil Lester's The Amazing Book is Not on Fire (Ebury), which went to the Hardback Non-Fiction number one in October 2015. The vlogger is now a mental health ambassador for charity Young Minds.
Professor Roy Taylor's Your Simple Guide to Reversing Type 2 Diabetes (Short) spiked straight into the Paperback Non-Fiction number one, as Rowland White's Harrier 809 (Corgi) claimed second place.
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's Cat's Cookbook (Alison Green) claimed the Children's number one back from Billie Eilish's Billie Eilish (Wren & Rook). Adam Silvera's BookTok hit They Both Die at the End (S&S Children's) notched up another week as the Children's and YA Fiction bestseller.
The print market saw 3.4 million books sold for £28.2m, a fall of 5.6% in volume and 7.2% in value week on week. While this was the lowest week for May so far, it was still comfortably up on the same week in 2019, up 16.4% in volume and 13.9% in value.
