Ella Mills wins Nielsen award for selling 250k copies

Ella Mills has been awarded a Specsavers Silver Bestseller Award for her debut cookbook Deliciously Ella (Yellow Kite), which has now sold over a quarter of a million print copies in the UK.

The awards celebrate the most successful books in Britain based on actual sales measured by Nielsen Book.

Mills was handed the award at a ceremony at the Hachette offices in central London earlier this week to mark the "huge success" of Deliciously Ella, first published in 2015 by Yellow Kite, as one of the fastest-selling debut cookbooks since Nielsen Book records began in 1998.

Liz Gough, publisher at Yellow Kite, and Mills’ editor, said: "It has been really exciting publishing Ella’s books over the last few years – seeing the reaction from retailers and fans alike when this first one was published was amazing. Deliciously Ella was a game-changing book and this award is really significant. Getting an award of this kind is a massive achievement for any author, but it’s particularly special for a first-time author launching a brand new cookbook. Everyone at Yellow Kite and Hodder is thrilled for Ella today."

Andre Breedt, managing director of Nielsen Book, added: "We’re delighted to be able to recognise this astonishing sale – 250,000 copies – of Ella’s first healthy eating cookbook, a title that has played a key part in the resurgence we’ve seen in the genre over the past few years."

Mills, founder of Deliciously Ella, is a cookery author, entrepreneur, and champion of eating well. She started off with her popular blog, deliciouslyella.com, which has had over 110 million hits in the last three years.