Pinch of Nom Quick & Easy holds firm as Captain Tom titles rise

Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson's Pinch of Nom Quick & Easy (Bluebird) has weighed in at the top of the UK Official Top 50 chart for a sixth consecutive week.

Nielsen BookScan was unable to provide volume and value figures owing to UK lockdown restrictions, but the top three have remained unchanged throughout 2021 so far, with Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse (Ebury) and Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) joining the Pinch of Nom title at the top.

After the announcement of his death last week, Captain Sir Tom Moore's books rushed back into the Top 50. His memoir, Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day (Michael Joseph), charted in sixth place, hitting third in the Hardback Non-Fiction chart, as his picture book One Hundred Steps (Puffin), illustrated by Adam Larkum, soared into the Children's number one, ending the 13-week reign of David Walliams and Tony Ross' Code Name Bananas (HarperCollins). This is the first time One Hundred Steps has taken the Children's number one spot. Meanwhile, Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara's Little People: Big Dreams title on Captain Tom (Frances Lincoln Children's) bounced into second place in the kids' chart.

Marian Keyes' Grown Ups (Penguin) was the highest-charting new entry of last week, debuting atop the Mass Market Fiction top 20—the author's 17th week in the pole since 2001. Dilly Court's The Reluctant Heiress (HarperCollins) and Val McDermid's Still Life (Sphere) joined Keyes in the top three.

Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series, already riding high in the e-book charts, flocked into the top 100, as new paperback editions of The Viscount Who Loved Me and An Offer from a Gentleman (both Piatkus) joined series opener The Duke and I.

Though The Thursday Murder Club held the Original Fiction number one for a 13th straight week, there was movement in that chart too—Elly Griffiths' Night Hawks (Quercus) debuted in the runner-up spot, as Women's Prize-winner and Waterstones Book of the Year Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (Tinder) bounced up to third. Mick Herron's latest Jackson Lamb title Slough House (John Murray) charted fourth in its first week on sale.

Vex King's Good Vibes, Good Life (Hay House) returned to the Paperback Non-Fiction number one spot—the mental health guide was last at the top two lockdowns ago, in May 2020.

One Hundred Steps also topped the Pre-School chart, which saw Eoin McLaughlin and Polly Dunbar's While We Can't Hug (Faber & Faber) rise up to fifth and Michelle Robinson and Emily Hamilton's The World Made a Rainbow (Bloomsbury Children's) and Anna Llenas' The Colour Monster (Templar) debut. Hannah Peckham and Stephanie Jayne's Conker the Chameleon (Blue Falcon) was the highest new entry in Children's and YA Fiction, hitting second.