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Jamie stays on top
Another 40,000-plus weekly sale means another week on top for Jamie Oliver as Jamie's Ministry of Food (Michael Joseph) holds first position for the third consecutive week. His latest cookery manual sold 41,053 copies through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market last week, achieving a sales consistency last seen by Oliver in 2005 when Jamie's Italy held pole position for eight weeks over the festive season.
The most recent edition of Guinness World Records jumps two places into second position with a sale of 29,487 through the market last week while Paul O'Grady's memoir, At My Mother's Knee (Bantam) falls one place into third position with a sale of 48,763.
Jeffrey Archer's A Prisoner of Birth rises 14 places into fourth position overall and to the top of The Bookseller's mass-market chart. It represents Pan Macmillan's second consecutive mass-market number one after Alice Sebold's The Almost Moon topped the chart this time last week.
In original fiction, Martina Cole's The Business (Headline) sold 25,550 copies in its first full week on sale and retains top spot despite Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger (Atlantic) almost doubling its sales week-on-week to 13,227 copies during the seven days to 25th October.
£36.1m was spent through the TCM last week, down 3.7% week-on-week and a decline of 1.6% year-on-year, when hardback helpings from the Guinness team, Nigella Lawson, Patricia Cornwell and Jamie Oliver all sat comfortably in the top five.
