Pinch of Nom: Comfort Food boomerangs back to the top

Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson's Pinch of Nom: Comfort Food (Bluebird) has returned to the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 41,132 copies in the week from 26th December to 1st January. This is its third week in the top spot, following its blockbuster launch week and its Christmas number one. Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Viking) briefly interluded a week ago, before the cookbook reclaimed the pole position.

Siobhan Wightman's Slimming Eats (Yellow Kite) debuted in second place, selling 18,205 copies, with Dr Michael Mosley's The Fast 800 Keto (Short), charting fifth—the unofficial starting gun on the 2022 New Year, New You season. The previous Pinch of Nom cookbook, Quick & Easy, rebounded into the Top 50, joined by James Nestor's Breath (Penguin Life), Rhiannon Lambert's The Science of Nutrition (DK) and Dr Megan Rossi's Eat More, Live Well (Penguin Life). 

Sarah Pearse's The Sanatorium (Corgi) was the highest new Adult Fiction entry in the Top 50, hitting 19th place. TikTok favourites Colleen Hoover's Ugly Love (Simon & Schuster) and Ali Hazlewood's The Love Hypothesis (Sphere) also made their debuts in Mass Market Fiction. Hoover’s long-term Top 50 stalwart It Ends with Us rocketed 27 places up the chart, scoring fourth place overall and second in Mass Market Fiction only to Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin). 

Jeff Kinney's Big Shot (Puffin) leapfrogged David Walliams and Tony Ross' Gangsta Granny Strikes Again! (HarperCollins) to claim the Children's number one for the first time since late October. YA fiction filled the top of the kids' chart, with Adam Silvera's They Both Die at the End (S&S), Karen McManus' You'll Be the Death of Me and One of Us is Lying (Penguin) and Kathleen Glasgow's Girl in Pieces (Oneworld) all hitting the top 10.

The print market fell from its festive heights, dropping 57% in volume and 54% in value week on week, to 3.5 million books sold for £31.1m.