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Bestsellers

The Sunday Times
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GENERAL hardbacks

1 The Unmumsy Mum/The Unmumsy Mum (Bantam Press £12.99) Internet blogger takes us through the highs and lows of motherhood 2,620 (50,195)

2 How It Works: The Mum/Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris (M Joseph £6.99) An anatomy of motherhood; the latest edition in the humorous series 2,605 (119,830)

3 How It Works: The Husband/Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris (M Joseph £6.99) Ladybird-like parody about husbands, with text and illustrations 2,565 (312,910)

4 How It Works: The Wife/Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris (M Joseph £6.99) Children’s book-style satire on the subject of wives 2,150 (275,145)

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5 Scarlett Says/Scarlett Moffatt (Boxtree £14.99) Gogglebox star turns her attention to life, the universe and everything in-between 2,000 (2,000)

6 The Ladybird Book of the MidLife Crisis by Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris (M Joseph £6.99) Amusing take on middle-aged angst 1,700 (186,360)

7 The Ladybird Book of Mindfulness by Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris (M Joseph £6.99) Mindfulness spoof for grown-ups 1,495 (200,255)

8 The Ladybird Book of the Hangover by Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris (M Joseph £6.99) All about the morning after, with classic artwork 1,400 (223,955)

9 Why Vote Leave/Daniel Hannan (Head of Zeus £9.99) MEP and political writer argues why it’s best to leave the European Union 1,285 (3,915)

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10 And the Weak Suffer What They Must? by Yanis Varoufakis (Bodley Head £16.99) Europe, austerity and the threat to global stability 1,130 (5,865)

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GENERAL paperbacks

1 The Road to Little Dribbling/Bill Bryson (Black Swan £8.99) Author embarks on a trip around Britain with his first travel book for 15 years 19,325 (68,270)

2 SPQR/Mary Beard (Profile £9.99) Britain’s favourite classicist lifts the lid on the Roman Empire 7,425 (26,765)

3 The Shepherd’s Life/James Rebanks (Penguin £8.99) An account of rural life in the Lake District by the Herdwick Shepherd 4,475 (61,000)

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4 My Family and Other Animals/Gerald Durrell (Penguin £7.99) Memoir from the British conservationist about his childhood on the island of Corfu 4,245* (102,825*)

5 Shakespeare/Bill Bryson (Harper £8.99) Biography of the playwright that aims to sort the truth from the myth 3,885 (364,885)

6 The Scrapbook of My Life/Alfie Deyes (Blink £14.99) The life and adventures of YouTube sensation Alfie Deyes 3,385 (37,685)

7 Black Box Thinking/Matthew Syed (J Murray £9.99) How the world’s most innovative people and organisations create success out of failure 2,835 (13,365)

8 Reasons to Stay Alive/Matt Haig (Canongate £7.99) How one man came through crisis, triumphed over illness and learnt to live again 2,165 (73,995)

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9 Germany/Neil MacGregor (Penguin £9.99) Former museum director examines the history and formation of Germany 1,635 (4,185)

10 Girl Up/Laura Bates (Simon & Schuster £12.99) Exposing the truth about body image, social media, sex and relationships 1,480 (1,480)

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FICTION hardbacks

1 The Last Mile/David Baldacci (Macmillan £16.99) Amos Decker returns to investigate an old case involving a promising young athlete 4,190 (4,190)

2 Private Paris/James Patterson (Century £20) An ex-marine’s vacation turns into a frantic search for a client’s missing granddaughter 3,225 (3,225)

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3 Predator/Wilbur Smith & Tom Cain (HarperCollins £20) Former SAS officer is pushed to the limit in the third part of the Hector Cross series 2,300 (22,430)

4 The Girl on the Train/Paula Hawkins (Doubleday £12.99) A commuter’s fascination with a married couple she passes every day turns deadly 2,240 (608,995)

5 Far from True/Linwood Barclay (Orion £18.99) Evil deeds and twisted minds are at work when a movie theatre collapses killing four people 1,805 (1,805)

6 Eligible/Curtis Sittenfeld (Borough Press £14.99) Two sisters are summoned to Cincinnati to tackle family, class and courtship 1,795 (1,795)

7 A Time of Torment/John Connolly (Hodder £14.99) Broken by the past, detective Charlie Parker must face down men who rule by terror 1,710 (9,090)

8 Orphan X/Gregg Hurwitz (M Joseph £12.99) An orphan raised and trained to kill fights back to help the desperate and deserving 1,490 (1,490)

9 Maestra/LS Hilton (Zaffre £12.99) Auction-house assistant turned escort finds herself fleeing for her life in Europe 1,315 (29,790)

10 Fool Me Once/Harlan Coben (Century £18.99) A woman seeks the truth after her supposedly dead husband is caught on camera 1,200 (10,955)

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FICTION paperbacks

1 Career of Evil/Robert Galbraith (Sphere £7.99) A severed leg is delivered to Detective Ellacott; can she hunt down the killer? 16,865 (16,865)

2 The Girl in the Spider’s Web/David Lagercrantz (Maclehose £7.99) Lisbeth and Mikael return in continuation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series 13,915 (55,625)

3 Make Me/Lee Child (Bantam £7.99) Jack Reacher’s one-day stopover becomes a quest into the heart of darkness 13,800 (127,395)

4 One with You/Sylvia Day (Penguin £7.99) A relationship is tested in the final chapter of the long awaited Crossfire saga 11,785 (74,865)

5 Warriors of the Storm/Bernard Cornwell (Harper £7.99) Uhtred, the kingdom’s greatest warrior, must battle the forces rising against him 11,765 (11,765)

6 Alert/James Patterson (Arrow £7.99) Detective Bennett hunts down a shadowy terror group devastating New York City 11,740 (39,555)

7 Splinter the Silence/Val McDermid (Sphere £7.99) Tony Hill investigates a series of suicides among women tormented by online predators 9,520 (28,335)

8 The Missing/CL Taylor (Avon £7.99) Family truths begin to surface after a 15-year-old boy goes missing 7,210 (22,475)

9 The Chocolate Lovers’ Wedding/Carole Matthews (Sphere £7.99) Can the ladies of The Chocolate Lovers’ Club finally find their happy-ever-afters? 6,715 (6,715)

10 The Loney/Andrew Michael Hurley (J Murray £7.99) A Catholic family visit a dark and barren land to seek god’s cure for their disabled son 6,145 (16,340)

MANUALS

1 Lean in 15 by Joe Wicks (Bluebird £14.99)
Fifteen-minute meals and workouts to keep you lean and healthy 16,560 (617,030)

2 Live Fast, Lose Weight by Charlotte Crosby (Headline £14.99)
Geordie Shore star reveals simple and healthy recipes, diet tips and eating plans 6,495 (129,255)

3 BBC Proms 2016 (BBC Books £7)
The official guide to the 2016 season of the BBC Proms 6,105 (14,795)

4 The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet by Michael Mosley (Short £8.99)
How to lose weight and reprogramme your body 4,055 (126,815)

5 Harry Potter Colouring Book
Warner Brothers
(Studio £9.99)
Wizarding world colouring book with intricate illustrations 3,235 (380,595)

Lists prepared by and data supplied by and copyright to Nielsen BookScan, taken from the TCM for the week ending 23/04/16. Figures shown are estimated sales for the seven-day period followed (in brackets) by the estimated total sale since BookScan records began in 1998. *Includes sales of more than one edition in the same format and at the same RRP. Titles available at Bookshop prices (inc p&amp;p) on 0845 271 2135