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Thanks to his strongest ever October weekly sale, Jamie Oliver enters familiar territory and tops the charts for the 14th time in the past three years. Jamie's Ministry of Food (Michael Joseph) sold 62,461 copies through the market last week, up almost 40,000 copies on his previous weekly sale.
Despite an increase on his previous weekly sale by more than 12,000 copies, Paul O'Grady remains in second position with his memoir, At My Mother's Knee . . . (Bantam Press). The tea-time talk-show host held off a strong charge from the evening-time equivalent, Michael Parkinson's Parky (Hodder), who rises 11 places to third position with a seven-day sale of 32,417 copies sold.
Guinness World Records (Guinness) falls three places to fourth position overall while a "£2.99 if you buy the Times" offer at WHSmith helps Ken Follett's much-anticipated follow-up to The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End (Pan), into fifth position with a 29,347 weekly sale. Alice Sebold's Almost Moon (Picador) is this week's highest new entry, in 22nd position, with a 11,855 sale through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market last week.