World's Worst Parents tops the charts as Nibbies winners soar

David Walliams and Tony Ross' The World's Worst Parents (HarperCollins) has rocketed into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 74,334 copies in its first three days on sale. This is Walliams' fifth week in the overall top spot this year alone, following on from the lockdown success of Slime, and his latest title could be settling in for many more—series predecessor The World's Worst Teachers spent seven weeks in the number one across summer 2019.

Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other (Penguin) vaulted up the chart into second place following its double win at the British Book Awards (Fiction Book of the Year and Author of the Year for Evaristo). The title, holding the Mass Market Fiction number one for a third week running and a fourth week in total, sold 21,625 copies last week—doubling its sales of the week before. This was 15,645 units more than its hardback sold the week of its Booker win.

The Nibbies Book of the Year, Candice Carty-Williams' Queenie (Trapeze), also soared up the Top 50, rising 22 places to score 12th. Its 7,811 copies represented a 68% boost week on week.

Fern Britton's Daughters of Cornwall (HarperCollins) bounced back into the Original Fiction top spot, unseating its HarperCollins stablemate Karin Slaughter's The Silent Wife, as Caroline Hirons' Skincare (HQ) held the Hardback Non-Fiction top spot for a second week, as the publisher claimed three of the five category chart number ones.

Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Bloomsbury) and Akala's Natives (Two Roads) once again held the top and runner-up spot in the Paperback Non-Fiction chart, with Amanda Brown's medical memoir sequel The Prison Doctor: Women Inside (HQ) the highest new entry in third place.

The print market continued its healthy run since bookshops reopened, with 3.8 million books sold for £32.6m. This is near level on bookshops' first week back, up 15% in value on last week and 21% year on year.