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Spending at UK booksellers was up 6.3% week-on-week last week, to £40.3m, but was down 3.3% on the same week on last year, according to Nielsen BookScan data. After a positive start to the month in which sales were up 2.3% (£1.7m) year-on-year in the first fortnight, a poor week in comparison to last year means sales in November are now up just 0.3% on last year.
Once again, Jamie Oliver's Jamie's 30-minute Meals (Michael Joseph) was the bestselling book in the UK, topping the charts with a 79,475 sale, while Guinness World Records holds firm in second place having sold 44,408 copies. Michael McIntyre's Life and Laughing (Michael Joseph) climbs one place to third overall, swapping positions with Aleksandr Orlov's A Simples Life (Ebury), which falls one place to fourth.
David Nicholls' One Day (Hodder) is the big mover in the charts, storming into The Official UK Top 50 for the first time since mid-August. Sales of the book, which picked up the Popular Fiction Book of the Year award at the recent Galaxy National Book Awards were up 444% week-on-week, to 21,316 copies sold.
However, it misses out on the mass-market fiction top spot which is this week claimed by Simon Kernick's ninth thriller, The Last 10 Seconds (Corgi). It is the first ever number one for the Slough-born author who rose to fame in 2007 when his Relentless was included in Richard and Judy's Summer Book Club.
Other new entries into The Official UK Top 50 include Patricia Scanlan's Coming Home (Transworld) and Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects (Allen Lane)—one of the bestselling books, along with One Day and Jamie's 30-minute Meals, at independent booksellers last week.