Pinch of Nom Quick & Easy racks up fourth straight week in top spot

Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson's Pinch of Nom Quick & Easy (Bluebird) has held the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a fourth consecutive week.

Once again, Nielsen BookScan was unable to provide volume or value figures for the bestseller charts, owing to lockdown restrictions in the UK closing bookshops.

Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse (Ebury) and Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) held second and third place respectively from the week before, though Lisa Jewell's Invisible Girl (Arrow) leapt into fourth place. The psychological thriller re-claimed the Mass Market Fiction top spot, holding off a challenge from Michael Connelly's Fair Warning (Orion), the highest new entry in the Top 50 in sixth.

Kate Mosse's The City of Tears (Mantle) entered the Original Fiction top 20 in second place, as Osman's immovable The Thursday Murder Club racked up an 11th straight week in the category chart top spot.

Raven Leilani's Luster (Picador) debuted straight into the Top 50 in its first week on sale in hardback, with the author skipping the Fiction Heatseekers chart entirely. Luster also charted fifth in Original Fiction, with Jane Harper's The Survivors (Little, Brown), Abigail Dean's Girl A (HarperCollins) and Jill Mansell's And Now You're Back (Headline) also debuting in the category chart.

Dr Claire Bailey and Justine Pattison's The Fast 800 Easy (Short) held the Paperback Non-Fiction number one spot, as Philippa Perry's The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read: And Your Children Will Be Glad You Did (Penguin Life) rose to second place. Tyson Fury's Behind the Mask (Arrow) was the highest new entry in third place.

David Walliams and Tony Ross' Code Name Bananas (HarperCollins) held the Children's number one for a 12th consecutive week, as Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's The Smeds and the Smoos (Alison Green) racked up another as the Pre-School chart-topper.