Weekly E-Ranking: Kay makes surgical strike for all-time record

Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt (Picador) is now dizzingly close to a Weekly E-Book Ranking chart record no-one could have predicted, as it claims its 18th weekly number one.

This is Going to Hurt is now just two weeks away from besting Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train (Transworld) and Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (HarperCollins)'s joint record of 19 weeks at number one. For a non-fiction title to be in a position to swipe two fiction behemoths' legs from under them, this is truly a more surprising turn of events than Amber and Greg winning "Love Island".

Heather Morris' The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Zaffre) once again bagged second place, racking up a ninth week as runner-up to Kay's junior doctor memoir.

Though the previous week's number one, Santa Montefiore's The Secret Hours, dropped from the top 20 altogether, David Nicholls' Sweet Sorrow (Hodder) and Lisa Taddeo's Three Women (Bloomsbury) hung in in the top five.

Anna Todd made a double debut in the ranking, with After and After We Collided charting fifth and 11th. The romance series, which started life as One Direction fan fiction and notched up a billion reads on WattPad—yes, equivalent to one-seventh of the Earth's population—has been boosted in its S&S-published e-book form by a Netflix film adaptation. You'll be dismayed to hear that Harry Styles does not star.

Joanne Ramos' The Farm (Bloomsbury) also made its debut in seventh place. The title, billed as "the Handmaid's Tale of 2019", would do well to follow in the Atwood classic's footsteps—it notched up seven weeks as e-book number one in 2017.