Pinch of Nom tops the chart as 2022 has record-breaking start

Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson's Pinch of Nom: Comfort Food (Bluebird) has notched up a second consecutive week and a fourth week in total atop the UK Official Top 50, selling 54,410 copies through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market. With Christmas fully over and the New Year recrimination period in full swing, the cookbook jumped 32% in volume week on week.

The year was off to a cracking start—at 3.9 million books sold for £35.5m, it was the biggest first week of the year in volume terms since 2010, and the biggest in value since records began. 

Siobhan Wightman's Slimming Eats (Yellow Kite) held second place in the Top 50, as Michael Mosley's Fast 800 Keto (Short) spiked (unlike its readers' blood sugar) into third place, holding the Paperback Non-Fiction number one for a second week.

Sarah Pearse's The Sanatorium (Corgi) ended the 10-week run of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin) in the Mass Market Fiction number one spot, becoming only the fourth non-Thursday Murder Club title to top the category chart since May 2021. However, Osman did hang on to the Original Fiction pole, with The Man Who Died Twice (Viking) reigning for a 15th week.

Adam Silvera's They Both Die at the End (Simon & Schuster) became the 20th bestselling book of 2021, according to Nielsen—the first Young Adult Fiction title to chart so high for the year since 2015. The title thundered into the Children's number one last week.

In the Amazon charts, Adele Parks' Both of You (HQ) claimed the Most-Sold: Fiction number one spot.