Non-Fiction: Cookbooks rustle up the charts for Prime Day
With book-buyers’ shopping habits changed since the pandemic, Amazon’s annual Prime Day has never had a more noticeable effect on the charts, especially Hardback Non-fiction. Dr Julie Smith’s Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? (Michael Joseph) reigned in the top spot once again, as Kay and Kate Allinson’s Pinch of Nom Comfort Food and Pinch of Nom Family Meal Planner (Bluebird) boomeranged back into the top three, alongside Eloise Head’s Fitwaffle: Baking It Easy (Ebury), Siobhan Wrightman’s Slimming Eats (Yellow Kite), Pip Payne’s The Slimming Foodie in One (Aster) and Joe Wicks’ Feel Good Food (HQ).
Elsewhere, Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis (Sphere), which has ridden a wave of TikTok hype, returned to the Top 50, and Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s Happy Mind, Happy Life (Penguin Life) bounced back into Paperback Non-fiction.
Miriam Margolyes’ This Much is True (John Murray) held the Paperback Non-fiction pole, as Tez Ilyas’ The Secret Diary of a British Muslim Aged 13 3/4 (Sphere) was the highest new entry, in eighth place.
