Pinch of Nom returns to the top of the charts as Mafi bags children's pole

Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson’s Pinch of Nom: Comfort Food (Bluebird) has boomeranged back into the  Official UK Top 50 number one spot, selling 14,432 copies.

The cookbook returned to the top spot after just one week away, following Michael Mosley’s Fast 800 Keto (Short) bouncing into the number one a week ago. This is Pinch of Nom: Comfort Food’s seventh week in the top spot in total, and its total volume is now just 98 copies below the 400,000-copy mark. 

Tahereh Mafi’s This Woven Kingdom (Electric Monkey) was the highest new entry in the Top 50, selling 13,576 copies and scoring the Children’s number one. Louie Stowell’s Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good (Walker) was the second-highest new entry in the kids’ chart, hammering into third place. 

Elly Griffiths’ The Locked Room (Quercus) debuted in the charts as the Original Fiction number one, with 6,129 copies sold, giving the author her first top spot in the category chart.  

Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us (Simon & Schuster) re-claimed the Mass-Market Fiction number one, bouncing back after Mark Billingham’s Rabbit Hole (Little, Brown) knocked it from the category chart top spot a week ago. It Ends with Us, published in 2016, has now passed the quarter of a million copies sold through BookScan UK—with 97% of its sales coming since the end of the 2021 lockdown. 

At 3.5 million books sold for £30.6m, the market was up 2.1% in volume and 2.4% in value week on week. Against the same week in 2020, volume was up 15.2% and value up 12.2%. 

Photography © Aashfaria A Anwar.