Jamie Oliver still Christmas number one - set to top bestsellers list for fourth successive year

• Save With Jamie on course to stay in the number one spot for Christmas

By Simon Cable
The Mail - 11 December 2013

It is becoming as much a staple of Christmas as turkey and mince pies... Jamie Oliver’s is proving the most popular celebrity cookbook again this year.

The TV chef is heading to the top of the Christmas bestseller list for the fourth year running.
Figures released by The Bookseller magazine show that Save With Jamie, which shows families how to cook ‘tasty, nutritious food on a budget’, has sold 201,959 copies since it was released at the end of August.

Jamie Oliver's recipes for people on a budget have struck a chord with cash-strapped Christmas shoppers

It has shifted more than twice as many copies as its nearest challenger, the Great British Bake Off title Everyday: Over 100 Foolproof Bakes, which has sold a total of 104,918 since it was published in mid-August.


Paul Hollywood’s cookbook, Pies and Puds, is the fifth biggest-selling cookery book, notching up 50,459 sales since its release at the end of October.

In third place was Tom Kerridge’s book Proper Pub Food, which has sold 98,522 copies over the past 15 weeks, while Nigel Slater’s offering, Eat, has sold 85,249 since the end of September

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