Richard Osman becomes first debut author to land Christmas No 1 with murder mystery novel
Some 134,514 copies of The Thursday Murder Club were sold in the week ending December 19
22 December 2020 • 8:36pm
It is the first debut novel to top the Christmas book chart since official sales records began in the late 1990s, and the first adult novel to top the Christmas list since Dan Brown s The Lost Symbol in 2009
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Richard Osman s The Thursday Murder Club has become the first debut novel to top the Christmas sales charts after selling more than twice as many copies as Barack Obama.