Charts Digital M ARTINA COLE HAS


stormed into the Offi- cial UK Top 50 number


one spot for the first time since May 2014. Betrayal swiped first place from under Ian Rankin’s nose, aſter selling 19,635 copies for £71,299. It is the crime


author’s 10th week as the over- all number one; between 2005– 2008, she occupied the spot five times, but since then the poles have been fewer and further between—this is just her second in nine years. However, her blis- tering Original Fiction record hasn’t faltered: she’s spent 62 weeks atop that list since 1998. Betrayal also knocked


Rankin’s Rather be the Devil off the Mass-Market Fiction summit, giving Cole her 15th week at that list’s peak. Hers is the seventh crime title in a row to top Mass-Market Fiction, and the 14th in the past year, compared to just two non-crime titles over the same he top 10


Ashley’s The Little Teashop of Lost and Found flying the flag for romance.


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Is this a sign that recent politi- cal and economic turmoil has put book-buying Britain in a dark mood—or just that its read- ers fancy some escapism to a world where the bad guys are brought to justice?


YouTuber Louise Pentland zoomed into the Original


Fiction number one with Wilde Like Me, becoming the third of her ilk to do so—aſter Joe Sugg (with graphic novel Username Evie and sequel Username: Regenerated) and Carrie Hope Fletcher (On the Other Side). The Hardback N n-fiction char is more oſten the YouTubers’ stomp- ing ground, with nine vloggers cresting that list—including Pent- land herself, in July all-


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7 The Handmaid’s Tale 8 Into the Water


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6 12 Small Great Things 3 The Power


author imprint Margaret Atwood Paula Hawkins Ian Rankin


5 Eleanor Oliphant... Completely Fine Gail Honeyman Clare Mackintosh Jodi Picoult


8 11 The Wrong Side of Goodbye 6 Need You Dead


10 3 Camino Island 11 29 Night School 12 23 This was a Man 13 5 American Gods


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HE HANDMAID’S TALE has once again taken over the Weekly E-Book Rank- ing’s number one spot, gripping the list with the might of a totalitarian regime for a third non-consecutive week. Barring the odd brand author hardback spoiling the part—as John Grisham’s Camino Island did a few weeks ago—Margaret Atwood’s 1985-published dystopia looks likely to hang on to the e-book pole until at least the end of July: the TV adaptation, show- ing on Channel 4 in the UK, has another four weeks leſt to run. Tonally, it’s a sharp contrast to last year’s “e-book(s) of the summer”, Jojo Moyes’ Me Before You duol- ogy, which were also helped by a block- buster adaptation (“Me Before You” hit cinemas in early June 2016). But, like the overwhelming dominance of crime fiction in both the print and e-book charts (see Monthly E-Book Ranking, p15), it could be an insight into the national mood. Naomi Alderman’s Baileys


Women’s Prize for Fiction winner The Power climbed to seventh, racking up its third week in the ranking. With The Handmaid’s Tale, it surely makes for the most sci-fi-femi- nist-fiction-heavy top 10 in the weekly ranking’s history.


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Paula Hawkins’ Into the Water floated back into the top five, bobbing just under The Handmaid’s Tale in second place. Ian Rankin’s Rather be the Devil also soared in the equivalent week it reigned as print number one. The top 10 also featured Clare Mackintosh’s I See You, Michael Connelly’s The Wrong Side of Goodbye and Peter James’ Need You Dead. (See what we mean about crime fiction?)


The hardback début of the moment, Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, rocketed upwards so quickly it may now suffer from decompression sickness. In its five weeks in the chart, it has, until now, never placed above 17th. Week on week, it jumped 14 places to fiſth. While its current chart trajectory—with consistent appearances in both the Original Fiction and Fiction Heatseekers chart, alongside the e-book charts—tallies with its book-of- the-moment predecessors (Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Tr


The Girl on the Train and J P Delaney’s The Girl Bef breaks th


The Girl Before), Eleanor Oliphant... breaks the mould in that it’s not a psycholog


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roundabouts... ×


Data is for week ending 24th June 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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