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


Children’s chart, selling three times as many as second-placed Cozy Corner. This latest addition to the series


is the best first-week performance to date for Steadman – up 44.1% on the fourth title’s debut week in October 2024. This performance takes total sales for the Skandar series above £3m – with the first title in the series, Skandar and the Unicorn Thief, responsible for £1.2m of that. The previous TCM number one


– Freida McFadden’s The Surrogate Mother – retains its Mass-Market Fiction (MMF) crown, despite a 34.2% reduction in sales compared with the previous seven days. With 11,499 copies sold, it is nearly 3,000 copies ahead of second-placed You Are Here by David Nicholls, but it is Richard Osman who is the one to keep an eye on. Following the release of the


Netflix adaptation of The Thursday Murder Club, the film tie-in edition has risen into the MMF Top 20 while the original edition has seen its sales grow 25.4% in the latest week, taking fifth place. Combined,


BookScan TCM volume 3,322,484 4.7% week on week BookScan TCM value (£) 31,614,951 8.7% week on week


the two editions have sold 12,377 copies – a figure that would give it first place in the MMF chart and fourth place in the TCM. There is just one new release in


the MMF chart this week – The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins debuts in 13th place, having sold 5,737 copies in its first three days on sale – a 17.5% drop on 2022’s A Slow Fire Burning. The latest chart data also sees a


raft of new releases in the Hardback Non-Fiction chart (HBNF), with nine new releases, although none of them can quite reach the top spot, which sees a return for The Let Them Theory by Mel and


Sawyer Robbins after its sales have risen 16.6% week on week. The biggest new release here is


Domination from Professor Alice Roberts – 3,512 copies in its first week gives it third place in the HBNF Top 20 and 41st in the TCM, although that number is a 33.1% drop on Crypt, which sold 5,249 copies in its first week on sale at the end of February 2024. The top of the Paperback


Non-Fiction chart sees no changes in the top six positions, with Gillian Anderson’s Want leading the pack for a sixth consecutive week despite an 11.5% drop in sales compared with the previous week. This week’s hardback new


releases have helped volume sales rise by 4.7% to 3.3 million books, bringing in a total of £31.6m – an increase of 8.7% against the previ- ous week’s performance. Compared with the same week in 2024, volume is down 7.2%, while value puts in a slightly better performance down 3.1% – thanks, in part, to a rise in the average selling price of 41p.


REPORTING Alex Call UK Top 50 21  Cozy Corner Coco Wyo Penguin, 9780241764220 Hay House UK, 9781788176187


UNI TS 5,478


22  The Let Them Theory Mel and S Robbins Little, Brown, 9780349132600 5,413 23  The Housemaid’s Secret Freida McFadden 24  The God of the Woods Liz Moore The Borough Press, 9780008663834, 25  There Are Rivers in the Sky Elif Shafak Penguin, 9780241988749 26  Entitled Andrew Lownie HQ, 9780008586379 Pan, 9781035047963 William Collins, 9780008775452 27  Our Beautiful Mess Adele Parks 5,278 4,659 4,485 4,426 4,224 28  The Hidden Girl Lucinda Riley, H Whittaker 29  The Black Loch Peter May riverrun, 9781529436105 30  Intermezzo Sally Rooney Faber, 9780571365487 4,166 4,126 4,028 31  Cozy Cuties Coco Wyo Penguin, 9780241764206 32  Want Gillian Anderson Piatkus, 9780349437019 Puffin, 9780241647226 Bloomsbury, 9781526657909 33  Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros 34  Lottie Brooks…Mean Girls Katie Kirby Poisoned Pen, 9781464223310 Bloomsbury, 9781526617163


UNI TS 3,990


3,945 3,936 3,760 35  The Housemaid Is Watching F McFadden 36  A Court of Mist and Fury Sarah J Maas Fourth Estate, 9780008511715 3,728 3,708 37  Butter Asako Yuzuki, Polly Barton (trans) Penguin, 9780241988244 3,666 38  The Man Who Died Twice Richard Osman 39  The Tenant Freida McFadden 40  Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros Piatkus, 9780349437057 Poisoned Pen Press, 9781464228629 3,658 3,529 3,516 41  Domination Alice Roberts Poisoned Pen, 9781464221361 Simon & Schuster, 9781398510081 42  Never Lie Freida McFadden 43  Safe Enough Lee Child Penguin (Transworld), 9781804995716 44  What a Way to Go Bella Mackie Borough Press, 9780008365981 45  Speedy Comfort Jon Watts Bloomsbury, 9781526690517 46  In Too Deep Lee and Andrew Child Penguin (Transworld), 9781804993675 47  The Women Kristin Hannah Pan Books, 9781035005697 Allen & Unwin, 9781760630737


UNI TS 3,512


3,402 3,312 3,300 3,241 3,215 3,200 48  The Courage to be Disliked I Kishimi, F Koga 49  Ward D Freida McFadden Poisoned Pen Press, 9781464228575 50  Guinness World Records 2026 Guinness World Records, 9781913484811 3,197 3,144 3,105 33


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