Fiction (p34) and Non-Fiction (p35) charts in full


much-anticipated paperback has interested 7,472 customers, 111.4% more than Whitaker’s previous, We Begin at the End (Zaffre), chalked up at its launch in August 2020. Whitaker, along with the Childs


and new releases from Lisa Jewell, Heidi Perks and LJ Ross, help takes the Mass Market Fiction Top 20 to a total of 155,846 copies – a 20.3% rise on the previous seven days. It marks a good week for fiction as the TCM’s Top 50 is flat week-on-week, excluding Collins’Sunrise. The most popular fiction hard-


back this week is The Prince Without Sorrow by Maithree Wijesekara (HarperVoyager), which earned its 6,678 copies thanks to a slot in Illumicrate’s March subscription box. It appears in first place on the Original Fiction chart, just ahead of the latest offering from Harlan Coben, Nobody’s Fool (Century), which sold 5,314 copies in its first three days on sale, an 11.1% increase against Think Twice’s first week in May 2024. Previous subscription box favour-


ite Carissa Broadbent's Slaying the Vampire Conqueror debuted in fifth place on the Original Fiction chart


BookScan TCM volume 3,492,325 6.9% week on week BookScan TCM value (£) 32,289,703 7.9% week on week


– the standalone novel set in the Crowns of Nyaxia world has sold 3,588 copies, 25.5% down compared with The Songbird and the Heart of Stone, released in November 2024. Further down the OF chart is a debut entry from former Doctor Who executive producer Chris Chibnall, whose Death at the White Hart takes sixth spot with 2,905 copies sold, while Alex Aster crosses over from YA fantasy to adult romance with Summer in the City at 10th, selling 2,159 copies. To the Women (Black & White)


takes a second consecutive week in the number-one slot of Hardback Non-Fiction (HBNF); Donna


Ashworth’s latest poetry collection benefits from Mother’s Day, with sales rising 12.6% compared with the previous seven days. The highest HBNF release of the week, Roxie Nafousi’s Confidence (Yellow Kite), settles for second with 5,555 copies sold, a consistent number for the inspirational speaker whose debut Manifest sold 5,523 copies in its first week in 2022, while Manifest: Dive Deeper managed 5,590 copies in 2023. In the Paperback Non-Fiction


chart, Gary Stevenson’s The Trading Game (Penguin) stays at the top for the ninth week with an 18% rise in sales, pushing it to lifetime sales of 60,809 copies. It is just ahead of James Clear’s Atomic Habits (Random House Business) to make it the bestselling Non-Fiction paper- back of 2025. This week’s TCM has seen sales


rise 6.9% this week to 3.5 million books, with value rising even more, up 7.9% compared with the previous seven days. Year-on-year, volume sales are down 7.6%, with value holding steady, up 0.4%.


REPORTING Alex Call UK Top 50 21  Breaking the Dark Lisa Jewell Penguin, 9781804947906 22  Confidence Roxie Nafousi Yellow Kite, 9781399734837 23  Someone Is Lying Heidi Perks Penguin, 9781804946466 24  The Island Swimmer Lorraine Kelly Orion, 9781398714465 25  Nobody’s Fool Harlan Coben Century, 9781529906127 HarperCollins, 9780008519377 Bloomsbury, 9781408889749 Piatkus, 9780349437057 Puffin, 9780241591246


UNI TS 5,736


5,555 5,553 5,495 5,314 26  Paddington’s Easter… M Bond & K Jankel 5,258 27  We're Going on an… M Mumford; L Hughes 28  Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros 5,243 5,200 29  There’s a Bunny in Your Book Tom Fletcher 30  The Housemaid Freida McFadden Little, Brown, 9781408728512 5,176 5,147 31  The Crash Freida McFadden Poisoned Pen, 9781464228636 Penguin, 9781804942949


UNI TS 5,111


32  The List of Suspicious Things Jennie Godfrey 33  The Let Them Theory Mel Robbins Hay House UK, 9781788176187 34  Big Jim Begins Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9781338896459 35  Belsay LJ Ross Dark Skies Publishing, 9781912310234 36  Bluey: Hooray, It’s Easter! Ladybird, 9780241669778 37  The Suspect Rob Rinder Penguin, 9781804940402 38  Blue Sisters Coco Mellors Fourth Estate, 9780008623036 39  Fluffy Chick Rod Campbell Bloomsbury, 9781526605399 Macmillan Children's, 9781529045765 5,089 4,948 4,916 4,852 4,764 4,762 4,760 4,670 40  A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J Maas 4,551 41  Peter Rabbit: The Easter… Beatrix Potter Puffin, 9780241687598 W&N, 9781474612722


UNI TS 4,502


42  Murder at the Monastery Rev Richard Coles 43  Dream Count Chimananda Ngozi Adichie Fourth Estate, 9780008685737 44  Onyx Storm Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349437064 45  Wild Side Elsie Silver Piatkus, 9780349441672 Orion, 9781398720022 4,364 4,295 4,219 4,186 46  Shadows in the Moonlight Santa Montefiore 47  Bunny vs Monkey: The Whopping… J Smart DFB Phoenix, 9781788453509 48  Funny Story Emily Henry Penguin, 9780241998175 49  The Wrong Sister Claire Douglas Penguin , 9781405957618 50  How the King of Elfhame… Holly Black Hot Key Books, 9781471409981 4,147 4,032 4,024 4,017 3,917 33


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