BOOKS: BEST-SELLERS
Hardbacks
1 Fifth Elephant Terry Pratchett/Doubleday pounds 16.99
Werewolves and vampires in the 24th Discworld yarn
2 Adrian Mole Sue Townsend/M Joseph pounds 14.99
Nerd becomes a celebrity chef and a single parent
3 Disgrace J M Coetzee/Secker pounds 14.99
Booker Prize-winner about personal accountability in the new South Africa
4 If Only Geri Halliwell/Bantam pounds 16.99
The tears, the triumphs, the Union Jack minis (nothing on Chris Evans, though)
5 'Tis Frank McCourt/Flamingo pounds 17.99 The next installment from the author of `Angela's Ashes'
6 White Cap and Bails Dickie Bird/Hodder pounds 18.99
Cricket anecdotes and yarns
7 Walking with Dinosaurs Tim Haines/BBC pounds 19.99
Lost extinct beasties stalk the land
8 Hannibal Thomas Harris/Heinemann pounds 16.99 Lecter's long-awaited return
9 Galileo's Daughter Dava Sobel/Fourth Estate pounds 16.99
A biography of Galileo revealed through letters from his daughter
10 Blue at the Mizzen Patrick O'Brian/HarperCollins pounds 16.99
Extremely long-term protagonist Aubrey sets sail for Chile
Paperbacks
1 The English Jeremy Paxman/Penguin pounds 7.99
Bill Bryson's sneering Limey equivalent?
2 Internet: The Rough Guide A J Kennedy/Rough Guides pounds 6 Sites for sore eyes
3 Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt/Flamingo pounds 7.99
Growing up poor and oppressed in Ireland
4 Archangel Robert Harris/Arrow pounds 5.99
Stalin's diaries turn up in modern Moscow
5 Last Chance Saloon Marian Keyes/M Joseph pounds 9.99 Changing lives and relationships of Irish trio in London
6 Dead Souls Ian Rankin/Orion pounds 5.99
Labyrinthine thriller featuring Detective John Rebus
7 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks/Vintage pounds 6.99
From adulterous bed to the hell of the trenches
8 Notes from a Big Country Bill Bryson/Black Swan pounds 6.99 A cornucopia of humourous trivia
9 Stalingrad Antony Beevor/Penguin pounds 12.99
An account of the ill-fated Operation Barbarossa
10 The Testament John Grisham/Century pounds 10
More evil legal shenanigans
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