Weekly E-Book Ranking: Adam Kay's festive follow-up shifts back into the top

Adam Kay's Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Picador) has re-claimed the Weekly E-Book Ranking number one, topping the chart for the first time since its launch week in October. The sequel to Kay's blockbuster junior doctor memoir This is Going to Hurt has leapfrogged Lee Child's first non-fiction number one The Hero (TLS) to score a second week in the top spot in its seventh week on sale. This is Going to Hurt (Picador), originally released in e-book in 2017, has notched up 20 weeks in the e-book chart top spot, the longest non-consecutive run of any title.

The top four operated as a Lee Child sandwich made with Adam Kay bread, with The Hero and Blue Moon (Transworld) in second and third and Twas the Nightshift... and This is Going to Hurt in first and fourth. The highest new entry, Lesley Kara's psychological thriller Who Did You Tell? (Transworld), scored fifth place for the author's Weekly E-Book Ranking début.

Tomi Adeyemi also made her début, with her YA fantasy sequel Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Macmillan Children's) hitting ninth place. It becomes the second YA title by a US author to chart in the Weekly E-Book Ranking inside a month, following Holly Black's The Queen of Nothing (Hot Key) in November.

Another fantasy title, Brian McClellan's Blood of Empire (Little, Brown), charted 14th. Aside from the new blood, many old favourites returned to the chart, as e-book sales dip against soaring print gift-buying. T M Logan's former number one The Holiday (Zaffre)—not to be confused with the 2006 Christmas film of the same name, although some e-book-buyers may have done so—rose up the ranking, with Jojo Moyes' The Giver of Stars (Michael Joseph), Sophie Kinsella's Christmas Shopaholic (Transworld) and Peter James' Dead at First Sight (Macmillan) boomeranging back into the chart.