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Best Sellers: Books

Saturday 03 July 1999 23:02 BST
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Hardbacks

1 Hannibal Thomas Harris/Heinemann pounds 16.99

Eat your heart out

2 Death du Jour Kathy Reichs/Heinemann pounds 10

More slice and dice than Jamie Oliver

3 The Naked Chef Jamie Oliver/M Joseph pounds 18.99

Maybe he should get together with Lecter

4 Score! Jilly Cooper/Bantam pounds 16.99

Sexual shenanigans reach a crescendo

5 Star Wars: Episode One David Reynolds/D Kindersley pounds 12.99

Cod mythology and silly outfits

6 Star Wars: Episode One - The Screenplay Century pounds 15.99

Less than a fortnight until the real thing

7 The Science of Discworld Terry Pratchett etc/Ebury pounds 14.99

How that wizardy stuff could really work

8 Midnight Falcon David A Gemmell/Bantam pounds 16.99

He's `the king of heroic fantasy'

9 Pretty Boy Roy Shaw/Blake pounds 14.99

Life in the East End

10 Full Moon Michael Light/Cape pounds 35

Photographic journey courtesy of Nasa

Paperbacks

1 A Widow For One Year John Irving/Black Swan pounds 7.99

Bereaved female novelist at three stages of her life

2 Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire A Foreman/Flamingo pounds 8.99

That irrepressible Spencer woman

3 About a Boy Nick Hornby/Indigo pounds 6.99

Feckless male makes friends with fatherless lad

4 Stalingrad Antony Beevor/Indigo pounds 12.99

Worthy recipient of the first Samuel Johnson prize

5 Ralph's Party Lisa Jewell/Penguin pounds 5.99

Inhabitants of London house mix and match emotionally

6 Point of Origin Patricia Cornwell/Warner pounds 5.99

Crazed former adversary menaces Kay Scarpetta

7 Mr Maybe Jane Green/Penguin pounds 6.99

Sexy, poor Nick or rich, swanky Ed?

8 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres/Vintage pounds 6.99

Strangely uneven, yet strangely captivating

9 Amsterdam Ian McEwan/Vintage pounds 6.99

Below-par Booker winner picks up sales

10 The Breaker Minette Walters/Pan pounds 5.99

A woman's body is washed up on a Dorset beach

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