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Jamie Oliver Crowned Kind Of Christmas Books

Fri, 23 Dec 2011

Jamie Oliver has once again claimed the number one spot on the Christmas book chart, with 59,156 copies of Jamie's Great Britain being sold in the week to 17 December.

The book was released in September and has shifted a total of 319,217 copies since then.

However, last year's cookbook from the TV chef - Jamie's 30-Minute Meals – managed to sell more than 1.1 million copies over the same period, making it not only the best-selling publication at Christmas but also for the whole of 2010.

Oliver also topped the UK book chart in 2005 with Jamie's Italy and in 2001 with Happy Days With The Naked Chef.

In this year’s chart, Guinness World Records 2012 took second place, followed by children's book Where's The Meerkat?, TV chef Lorraine Pascale's Home Cooking Made Easy and Kathryn Stockett's civil rights novel The Help.

In sixth place was the biography of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs, with children's book Diary Of A Wimpy Kid at number seven and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage Veg Every Day! in eighth place. Completing the top 10 were TV tie-ins Frozen Planet and The World of Downton Abbey.

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