13th December 2024
Charts
Nathan Anthony cooking on gas with his third number one cookbook of 2024
Anthony’s Bored of Lunch: Six Ingredient Slow Cooker tops the charts while Guinness World Records 2025 drops to second and the newest instalment from Dav Pilkey sweeps Children’s
N Week ending 7th December 2024
athan Anthony’s Bored of Lunch: Six Ingredient Slow Cooker has gone straight to the
top of the Official UK Top 50 with 52,070 copies flying through the tills, according to the latest set of data from Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market (TCM). It marks an impressive hat trick
for Anthony, who has released three cookbooks in 2024, all of them going straight to number one. Slow cookers seem to be more popular with budding home-chefs, as this latest release has sold 83% more in its first week when compared with
April’s Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Air Fryer Book— but it can’t beat January’s Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Slow Cooker Book which sold a huge 74,727 copies in week one, the highest single-week sales for a Non-Fiction title in 2024. This is Anthony’s fifth release
since bursting onto the food and drink scene in early 2023 with The Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook – and to date, he’s sold 1,239,230 books, bringing in more than £11.5m worth of sales. Anthony is not the only chef
celebrating this week, as Jamie Oliver’s Simply Jamie experiences a 108% week-on-week boost,
pushing up 25 places in the overall chart to 12th place in the ranking. The Non-Fiction titles between Oliver and Anthony – Guinness World Records 2025, Private Eye Annual 2024 and Miranda Hart’s I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You – experienced a week of mixed fortunes, all with increased sales week-on-week, but all drop- ping lower in the chart thanks to new releases. One of those new releases is this
week’s biggest children’s book – Big Jim Begins, the 13th in the Dog Man series from Dav Pilkey. No bad luck here, though – with sales of 34,934 it’s the biggest launch week for a Dog Man title since The Scarlet Shedder was released in March of this year and sold 24,340 copies. Jeff Kinney’s Hot Mess is ever
so slightly up against the previous seven-day period, but in a week of sky-rocketing volumes in the top 50, it results in a drop of three places, taking it from fourth to seventh.
It’s all gravy for Nathan Anthony with his third number one of the year
The Official 1 Bored of
Lunch...Slow Cooker N Anthony Ebury Press, 9781529914498 3 Data
Unless otherwise stated, charts use data from Nielsen BookScan Total Consumer Market, representing print book sales through around 6,500 retailers. Any title discounted by more than 74.5% is ineligible for inclusion.
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Key No move New entry Climbing Re-entry Falling
2 Guinness World Records 2025 3 Big Jim Begins Dav Pilkey Scholastic, 9781338896459 4 We Solve Murders Richard Osman Viking, 9780241608364 5 Orbital Samantha Harvey Vintage, 9781529922936 6 Butter Asako Yuzuki Puffin, 9780241583166 Fourth Estate, 9780008511685 7 Hot Mess Jeff Kinney 8 Private Eye Annual 2024 Ian Hislop Private Eye, 9781901784749 Michael Joseph, 9781405958332 Guinness World Records, 9781913484552
UNI TS 52,070
41,211 34,934 30,484 24,213 19,795 17,681 16,280 9 I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest... Miranda Hart 10 The 1% Club Bantam, 9780857506412 15,303 14,938 11 In Too Deep Lee & Andrew Child Bantam, 9780857505590 12 Simply Jamie Jamie Oliver 13 Quicksilver Callie Hart Hodderscape, 9781399745413 Macmillan Children’s, 9781529034370 Michael Joseph, 9780241657805
UNI TS 14,421
14,347 13,215 14 Squirrel’s Snowman Donaldson; Scheffler 15 Diddly Squat: Home to Roost J Clarkson Michael Joseph, 9780241728192 16 Wind and Truth Brandon Sanderson Gollancz, 9781399601313 17 Mary’s Foolproof Dinners Mary Berry BBC Books, 9781785949227 18 Murdle GT Karber Souvenir, 9781800818026 Independently Published, 9781699369135 13,132 12,311 11,736 11,395 10,454 19 Things to Do While You Poo... Alex Smart 20 Wicked Gregory Maguire Headline, 9781035421060 10,406 10,231
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