Jane's Patisserie takes the cake in the top spot

Baking blogger Jane Dunn's debut cookbook Jane's Patisserie (Ebury) has risen straight into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 44,444 copies through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market in its first three days on sale.

Its volume makes it the fastest-selling non-fiction title since sales figures returned to BookScan in mid-March following the third national lockdown, and the fastest since Pinch of Nom Quick & Easy (Bluebird) in December 2020.

Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) maintained second place in the Top 50, returning to the Mass Market Fiction number one for its 11th week in total. Last week's overall number one, Victoria Hislop's One August Night (Headline), dropped to second place in the category chart as Ken Follett's The Evening and the Morning (Pan) and Harlan Coben's Win (Arrow) made their debuts in the top 10.

Stephen King's Billy Summers (Hodder & Stoughton) debuted in the Original Fiction number one spot, selling 16,068 copies, displacing Lisa Jewell's The Night She Disappeared (Century) from the previous week. Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees (Viking) and Shari Lapena's Not a Happy Family (Bantam) also debuted in the top four.

Jane's Patisserie ended the run of Matt Haig's The Comfort Book (Canongate) atop the Hardback Non-Fiction chart, with Lauren and Rachel Finch's Finch Bakery (DK) proving itself in second place.

The Official Highway Code accelerated back up to the top of Paperback Non-Fiction, followed by Vex King's Good Vibes, Good Life (Hay House) and Raynor Winn's The Wild Silence (Penguin).

David Walliams and Tony Ross' Megamonster (HarperCollins) scored the Children's number one for another week, while Holly Jackson's As Good as Dead (Farshore), the third title in the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder trilogy, debuted in second place. Jackson's 2019-published debut returned to the Children's Fiction and YA chart in 20th place.

At 3.6 million books sold for £30.3m, the market was in rude health—up 15.3% in volume and 11.4% in value against the same week in 2020.