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Bored of Lunch: Slow Cooker is quick seller at top of the charts
Nathan Anthony’s Bored of Lunch: Six Ingredient Slow Cooker (Ebury Press) has gone straight to the top of Official UK Top 50 with 52,070 copies flying through the tills according to the latest set of data from Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM).
It marks an impressive hat-trick for Anthony who has released three cookbooks in 2024, all of them going straight to number one. Slow cookers seem to be more popular with budding home-chefs as this latest release has sold 83% more in its first week when compared to April’s Bored of Lunch: Healthy Air Fryer – but it cannot beat January’s Bored of Lunch: Healthy Slow Cooker which sold a huge 74,727 copies in week one, the highest single week sales for a Non-Fiction title in 2024.
Anthony is not the only chef celebrating this week, as Jamie Oliver’s Simply Jamie (Michael Joseph) experiences a 108% week-on-week boost, pushing up 25 places in the overall chart to 12th place in the ranking. The Non-Fiction titles between Oliver and Anthony – Guinness World Records 2025; Private Eye Annual 2024; and Miranda Hart’s I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You (Michael Joseph) – experienced a week of mixed fortunes, all with increased sales week-on-week, but all dropping lower in the chart thanks to new releases.
One of those new releases is this week’s biggest children’s book – Big Jim Begins (Scholastic), the thirteenth in the Dog Man series from Dav Pilkey. No bad luck here, though – with sales of 34,934 it is the biggest launch week for a Dog Man title since The Scarlet Shedder was released in March of this year and sold 24,340 copies.
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It’s been a good week for Richard Osman’s We Solve Murders (Viking) with sales of 30,484 copies, a growth of 21.2% week-on-week and 8.3% more than The Last Devil to Die achieved in the same week in 2023.
With lifetime sales of 360,827 units, Osman’s latest hardback moves to the top of the 2024 bestseller list, leapfrogging over, well, himself by pushing the paperback edition of The Last Devil to Die into second place. Butter by Asako Yuzuki (Fourth Estate) bucks the trend this week and finds itself sliding up the charts into sixth place. Already popular in independent bookshops, sales have risen 70% week-on-week as it enjoys its first full week in the Waterstones Book of the Year spotlight.
It can’t quite overtake the other indie bookshop favourite for this year though – Samantha Harvey’s Booker Prize winning Orbital (Vintage) is the fifth bestselling book of the week and is sitting comfortably atop the Mass Market Fiction (MMF) chart with sales of 24,213 units a 3.4% rise week on week and nearly 14,000 more copies than its nearest rival – Gregory Maguire’s Wicked (Headline) which climbs one place to take the second spot in the MMF chart.
ITV’s Primetime hit The 1% Club (Bantam) has seen its success replicated in the Paperback Non-Fiction chart as it takes a second consecutive week at number one and moves into the overall top 10 for the first time with sales of 14,938 — a 74.1% growth compared to the previous seven days.
However, the most impressive growth in the Paperback Non-Fiction chart comes from David Grann’s The Wager (Simon & Schuster) with sales jumping 210% following a recommendation from Ben Miller on BBC Two’s Between the Covers. It pushes it into the overall top 50 with sales of 7,429 copies – a volume rise of more than 5,000 units.
Christmas finally seems to have kicked into gear in bookshops across the country as the calendar has turned to December. Volume sales have risen 16.1% to 6.7 million books sold, bringing with it a total value of £66.2m – up 18.8%.
It is still not enough to match 2023, though, as volume sales are down 1.3% with value increase of 1% – a miss of around £900,000.
