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AVID WALLIAMS’ BLOB has topped the Official UK Top 50 once again, shiſting 26,658 copies, accord- ing to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Blob, which racked up the biggest single-week sale of any single World Book Day title, is now the longest-running WBD over- all number one, at four weeks and counting. The title also surpassed 200,000 copies sold in the same week that Walliams’ 2016 blockbuster, The Midnight Gang, cruised past the 700,000- copy mark.


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Book Day tranche look to be in retreat aſter two weeks of chart dominance. The grown-ups returned to the chart’s upper echelons, led by James Pater- son and Candice Fox’s Never Never, rocketing up the chart to hit second place with 14,948 copies sold aſter débuting in 15th place a week ago. Swip- ing the Mass-Market Fiction number one, Never Never joined Paterson’s hardback 16th Seduction atop their respective cate- gory charts. The 16th Women’s


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writen with Maxine Paetro, crested the Original Fiction list for a second week running. Simultaneously topping the fiction charts should be a rare achievement for an author, but this is James Paterson we’re talking about. It’s the fiſth time since records began that he’s pulled it off, with his most recent double-topper occuring in January 2014. Only one other writer has managed the feat— J K Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy topped the Mass- Market Fiction chart in the same 2013 week that her pseudonym Rober Galbraith’s The Cuckoo’s Calling


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1 The Little Teashop of Lost... Found Trisha Ashley 8 Lion: A Long Way Home 1 Silence Fallen


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Saroo Brierley Patricia Briggs Danielle Steel Paula Hawkins Lee Child


9 The Trouble with Goats and Sheep Joanna Cannon 1 Who’s That Girl?


10 2 Taming of the Queen 11 3 City of Friends


12 1 Orange Blossom Days


13 7 Three Sisters, Three Queens 14 4 The Gustav Sonata 15 16 This was a Man 16 8 Mount! 17 4 SS-GB


18 8 Cold Earth


19 1 Queen of Wishful Thinking 20 1 The Bricks that Built the Houses


AMES PATTERSON MAY have racked up 21 weeks as the UK’s overall number one in print—plus, pleasingly, 58 weeks apiece in the Original Fiction and Mass- Market Fiction top spots—but despite the Weekly E-Book Ranking running for the past 45 weeks, this week is the first time that he’s topped it. In the same week that 16th Seduction bagged the Original Fiction number one, it shot straight to the top of the e-book list, usurping Saroo Brierley’s Lion: A Long Way Home.


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Unsurpringly given his prolific output, J-Patz holds the record for the most titles in a single weekly ranking (four). His latest Women’s Murder Club title, writen with Maxine Paetro, is his 12th to feature in the Weekly E-Book Ranking; current Mass- Market Fiction number one Never Never charted fiſth back in August.


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digital format should come as no surprise. Hardback fiction tends to blaze into the ranking for a limited period of time, while paperback releases hang around for longer. Aside from Lion, the top five was exclusively made up of new hardback fiction, with Trisha Ashley’s The Little Teashop of Lost and Found and Patricia Briggs’ Silence Fallen topping Danielle Steel’s Dangerous Games, which was runner-up to Paterson in print. Briggs, Mhairi McFarlane and Kate


Tempest all make their début in the weekly ranking, though the three authors couldn’t be more different in terms of their subject mater. While poet and rapper Tempest’s literary début The Bricks that Built the Houses was described as “transformative” by the Guardian and “post-Dickensian” by the Evening Standard, Briggs’ Silence Fallen is the 10th title in her fantasy Mercy Thomp- son series, about a coyote shapeshiſter on the run from vampires in Prague. McFar- lane, on the othelane, on the other hand, is strictly romance; her Who’s That Girl?


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charts ninth. Though it is her first appearance in the weekly digital list, her previous title, It’s Not Me, It’s You, charted in a personal- best fourth place in the Monthly E-Book Ranking that covered sales in May 2015. ×


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Data is for week ending 11th March 2017 Titles with a selling price below £2 are excluded, as are titles priced £4.50 or below with any print versions priced above £17.99. Participating publishers: PRH UK, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Simon & Schuster and Bonnier. WKS the number of weeks in chart. DLP digital list price.


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