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Pinch of Nom Quick & Easy whips up third straight week in the 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 third consecutive week. The cookbook looks set to follow in the footsteps of its predecessor Everyday Light, which reigned atop the Nielsen BookScan charts for the first five weeks of 2020.
Meanwhile Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse (Ebury) overtook over Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) to claim second place overall. The illustrated title, the bestselling book of 2020, has barely dropped from the top 10 since its publication in 2019. This year has so far seen two consecutive weeks of an all-hardback top three.
Dr Clare Bailey and Justine Pattison's The Fast 800 Easy (Short) was the highest-charting paperback title, swiping fourth place overall and clinching the Paperback Non-Fiction number one for a second week running.
Lisa Jewell's Invisible Girl (Arrow) made its presence felt in the Mass Market Fiction top spot for a second week running, rising to fifth place in the Top 50. Tom Bradby's Double Agent (Corgi) was the highest new entry in the category chart, with Shari Lapena's 2017-published blockbuster hit The Couple Next Door (Corgi) returning in ninth place.
As we saw in Lockdown 1.0, pre-school and primary school-level workbooks flooded the Children's charts, with Writing Workbook Ages 3-5 (Collins), Practise with Peppa: Wipe-Clean First Letters (Ladybird) and Handwriting Ages 5-7 (Collins) thundering into the kids' overall top 20. Though David Walliams and Tony Ross' Code Name Bananas (HarperCollins) tightened its grip on the Children's and YA Fiction number one, Young Adult titles had a strong week—Adam Silvera's They Both Die at the End (Simon & Schuster Children's) rose 14 places to sixth and Karen McManus' The Cousins (Penguin) returned in 16th place.
With lockdown restrictions in place, Nielsen BookScan was unable to provide volume or value data for the bestseller charts.
