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Books: Best-Sellers

Saturday 19 June 1999 23:02 BST
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Hardbacks

1 Hannibal Thomas Harris/Heinemann pounds 16.99

Clarice and the Cannibal - together again

2 The Naked Chef Jamie Oliver/M Joseph pounds 18.99

Mmmm, it's still really pukka

3 Star Wars: Episode One Dorling Kindersley pounds 12.99

The visual dictionary, should you need such a thing

4 Midnight Falcon David A Gemmell/Bantam pounds 16.99

He's `the king of heroic fantasy', apparently

5 The Planets David McNab & James Jounger/BBC pounds 9.99

Heavenly TV tie-in and moneyspinner

6 Star Wars: Episode One Terry Brooks/Century pounds 15.99

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into a bookshop

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

Two boffins explain how Pratchett's magic could work

8 Score! Jilly Cooper/Bantam pounds 16.99

Rumpy-pumpy in the world of classical music

9 One Virgin Too Many Lindsey Davis/Century pounds 15.99

Ancient Roman sleuth Falco comes to rescue of Vestal Virgin

10 East Of The Mountains David Guterson/Bloomsbury pounds 16.99

A thwarted euthanasia suicide

Paperbacks

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

Bereaved female novelist at three stages of her life

2 Point Of Origin Patricia Cornwell/Warner pounds 5.99

Homicidal lesbian targets Kay Scarpetta

3 About A Boy Nick Hornby/Indigo pounds 6.99

Feckless male befriends fatherless lad

4 Tara Road Maeve Binchy/Orion pounds 6.99

House swap leads to romantic tangles

5 Georgina Duchess Of DevonshireAmanda Foreman/Flamingo pounds 8.99

A story of 18th-century celebrity

6 Amsterdam Ian McEwan/Vintage pounds 6.99

Below-par McEwan finds favour

7 Ralph's Party Lisa Jewell/Penguin pounds 5.99

Inhabitants of London house mix and match

8 Internet: Rough Guide Angus J Kennedy/Rough Guides pounds 5.99

Armchair tourists for the new millennium

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

Strangely uneven, yet strangely captivating

10 The Breaker Minette Walters/Pan pounds 5.99

A woman's body is washed up on a beach. Dorset-set murder mystery

UK Films

THIS LAST WEEKS GROSS TO

WEEK WEEK IN CHART 13 JUNE

1 (-) The Matrix (15) New pounds 3,384,948

Starring some special effects and a man called Keanu

2 (1) Notting Hill (15) 4 pounds 14,983,103

Ms Celebrity meets Mr Ordinary

3 (2) She's All That (12) 4 pounds 4,571,676

More life lessons for dull American teenagers

4 (3) Human Traffic (18) 2 pounds 1,038,676

Three days in the life of the youth of today

5 (4) My Favourite Martian (PG) 3 pounds 1,343,251

Bad 1960s sitcom becomes an even worse 1990s movie

6 (5) The King & I (U) 3 pounds 86,178

Rogers and Hammerstein meet Disney

7 (6) Virus (18) 2 pounds 372,574

Donald Sutherland overdoes it as psychotic space pirate

8 (7) The Rugrats Movie (U) 12 pounds 12,888,462

Animation with the nasty suburban toddlers

9 (8) I Still Know What You ... (18) 6 pounds 32,657,571

Any guesses what the next sequel will be called?

10 (9) The Waterboy (12) 7 pounds 3,379,617

Dire Adam Sandler no-brainer

US Films

THIS LAST WEEKS GROSS TO

WEEK WEEK IN CHART 13 JUNE

1 (-) Austin Powers 2 New $57,442,692

Groovy, baby!

2 (1) Star Wars: Phantom Menace 4 $296,964,911

See for yourself on 16 July

3 (2) Notting Hill 3 $67,518,100

It's doing well, considering the competition

4 (3) Instinct 2 $21,252,744

Hopkins as a psychiatrist turned psychopath. Sound familiar?

5 (4) The Mummy 6 $136,213,325

`The adventure is reborn'. Or so it claims

6 (6) Entrapment 7 $79,439,412

Connery and Zeta Jones's adventure

7 (6) The Matrix 11 $161,387,885

Fantastic sci-fi special effects saga with Keanu Reeves

8 (7) The Thirteenth Floor 3 $9,653,058

Virtual reality thriller from the makers of `Godzilla'

9 (12) Tea With Mussolini 5 $7,682,969

Cher in an otherwise British period drama

10 (8) Never Been Kissed 10 $51,944,231

Drew Barrymore goes back to school with bad hair

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