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the Official UK Top 50 number one for a second week, improving on its first week in the top spot by a heſty 28% in volume terms. It sold 17,130 copies for £67,978, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. The crime title becomes the first book of the year to retain the number one spot—incredibly, only two adult fiction titles managed to do so in the entiret of 2016: Lee Child’s Make Me and Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train. January is over, and everyone can stop pretending they enjoy abstaining from alcohol, steam- ing kale and doing burpees at 6 a.m. New Year, New You titles were not completely exhumed from the charts last week—two diet books held top 10 posi-


Dought’s Apple Tree Yard climbed


second place, off the BBC adap-


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Lewis’ The Moment She Leſt zipped p cha tart


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mid claimed the top spot a week ago, male authors had taken the number one spot for 12 consecu- tive weeks. An all-fiction top three hasn’t happened since October last year, and there hasn’t been a female-authored fiction hat-trick at the top of the chart since July 2016.


Of the top 50, 24 were paper- back fiction titles writen by women, compared to just five male-authored fiction titles. (Or five and a half, if James Paterson and Maxine Paetro’s Woman of God is split down the on-fiction, the


middle.) In non-fiction, the gender pendulum swings the other way, with eight


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title 1 Until You Come Home


2 39 The Girl on the Train 2 Lion: A Long Way Home 1 New York, Actually


author imprint Ellie Dean


Paula Hawkins Saroo Brierley Sarah Morgan


3 The Trouble with Goats and Sheep Joanna Cannon 3 My Sweet Revenge 1 White Lies and Wishes 1 Behind Her Eyes 9 The Muse


Jane Fallon Cathy Bramley 10 1 The Nowhere Man


11 1 The House of New Beginnings 12 13 This was a Man 13 12 Night School


14 1 Nineteen Eighty-four 15 1 Power Game 16 1 The Girl Before


17 1 Eleventh Grave in Moonlight 18 33 After You


19 2 Good Me Bad Me 20 1 Forget-Me-Not Child


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Christine Feehan J P Delaney


Darynda Jones Jojo Moyes Ali Land


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LLIE DEAN’S UNTIL You Come Home shunted 17-time Weekly E-Book Ranking number one The Girl on the


Train into the sidings to claim the top spot; the 12th title in the author’s Second World War-set Beach View Boarding House series brought down the ranking’s Goliath in its first week out of the blocks. (Even aſter two years on sale, Paula Hawkins’ psychological thriller shouldn’t be discounted, and with the film adaptation’s DVD release looming, it will probably chug straight back out of those sidings next week.)


Romance and sagas oſten do well in “e”, and this is Dean’s second book to appear in the weekly ranking: Shelter fom the Storm hit eighth in August. Her fellow saga writers Donna Douglas, Dilly Court and Danielle Steel frequently appear in the top 20, and rom-com authors such as Jenny Colgan, Jill Mansell and Carole Mathews pull their weight too, but the romance crown belongs to Jojo Moyes: her Dignitas-set duology Me Before You and Aſter You held the number one spot for a combined 11 weeks. Alongside Until You Come


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Beginnings and Anne Bennet’s The Forget- Me-Not Child also entered the ranking: maybe e-reader owners are hoarding feel- good fiction ahead of Valentine’s Day. For once, romance titles outnumbered thrill- ers in the Weekly E-Book Ranking—and the list’s two new crime entries, Sarah Pinbor- ough’s Behind Her Eyes and J P Delaney’s The Girl Before, are unmistakably female- driven too.


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As usual, the film-tie-in of the moment features prominently in the digital ranking: in 2017, Saroo Brierley’s Lion: A Long Way Home seems to have taken the mantle from 12-week-stalwart M L Stedman’s The Light Between Oceans, climbing to third. We now live in a world where it’s not just films with Oscars buzz and seasonal celebrations that can prompt instant-click e-book sales—politics can, too. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eight-Four became the oldest book ever to appear in the ranking, beating Elie Wiesel’s by some 12 years. In a turn


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Data is for week ending 28th January 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 and Simon & Schuster. WKS the number of weeks in chart. DLP digital list price.


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