Change the order of deleting mails

I recently switched from Thunderbird to Mail as my email client, so I bring some habits or expectations from TB... and that means that I find Mail doesn't do what I would like it to do when I delete emails. Can I change this?

I go through emails in the list pane (left of message pain) and delete any I don't want (not all listed as spam). When I select an email then delete it, the automatic next selected email is the one in the list above the one I've deleted, but I prefer it to automatically select the one below that I've deleted, so I can easily then select a group if there's more than one to delete. So is there a way to change the way in which the auto-selection happens?

I list emails by date, most recent at the top.

Hoping for a nice easy way to do this, but can't see anything in Prefs to allow me to change it.

Thanks

Ian