Non-Fiction: Wicks has the Feel Good factor for a second week
Cookbook Feel Good Food (HQ) by Joe Wicks has claimed the Official UK Top 50 number one spot for a second week, selling 17,533 copies. This is Wicks’ 20th week in the overall top spot, since Lean in 15 exploded on to the scene in late 2015. It’s also his 10th week as the Hardback Non-fiction number one. While Wicks had hardback hits during his Pan Macmillan tenure, Feel Good Food has become his first title in the format to spend more than one week in the overall top spot—16 of his previous number one spots have been with paper-back titles.
Becky Excell’s How to Plan Anything Gluten Free (Quadrille) débuted directly into the Paperback Non-fiction number one, securing 37th place in the Top 50, with 5,073 copies sold in its first week. Excell’s first title How to Make Anything Gluten Free dropped during the third lockdown in February 2021, but scored second place in the Hardback Non-fiction top 20, while follow-up How to Bake Anything Gluten Free débuted last September, with 8,346 copies sold. However, How to Plan Anything Gluten Free has served up the author’s first ever category chart number one, leapfrogging Catherine Belton’s Putin’s People (William Collins) after a fortnight at the top.
Feel Good Food notched up its second week in Hardback Non-fiction, as Dr Julie Smith’s Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? (Michael Joseph) and Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson’s Pinch of Nom Comfort Food (Bluebird) once again claimed second and third. Robert Hardman’s Queen of Our Times (Macmillan) was the highest new entry into the category chart, arising into fifth place.
