Books: Bestsellers

Eclipse fever has hit our shores and disorientated the long-term non-fiction stars causing them to plummet down the list. Eclipse by Peter MacDonald has more than doubled its sales this week, the RGO Guide to the Total Eclipse's have tripled, and the nation's favourite astronomer, Patrick Moore, enters the list with The 1999 Total Eclipse. The top two on the fiction list are unchanged but there are four new "summer reads" at 3, 5, 6 and 10. Compiled on sales over seven days to 7 August Bookwatch Ltd, 1999

COOKERY/HOUSEHOLD

TITLE AUTHOR/PUBLISHER WEEKLY PRICE

SALES

1 Rough Guide to the Internet Angus Kennedy (Rough Guides) 2,297 pounds 5.99

2 The Naked Chef Jamie Oliver (M Joseph) 1,707 pounds 18.99

3 Ainsley's Big Cook Out Ainsley Harriott (BBC) 1,434 pounds 14.99

4 Ground Force Water Garden Charlie Dimmock (BBC) 867 pounds 9.99

5 Delia's How to Cook Delia Smith (BBC) 498 pounds 16.99

6 Emergency First Aid (Siena) 447 pounds 0.99

7 Pears Cyclopedia 99-2000 ed Chris Cook (Penguin) 390 pounds 16.99

8 Baby Meal Planner Annabel Karmel (Ebury) 384 pounds 10.99

9 Summer Collection Delia Smith (BBC) 352 pounds 14.99

10 1001 Recipes Alexa Stace (Parragon) 329 pounds 1.99

ORIGINAL NON-FICTION

TITLE AUTHOR/PUBLISHER WEEKLY PRICE

SALES

1 RGO Guide to the Eclipse Steve Bell (RGO) 4,420 pounds 5.99

2 Driving Over Lemons Chris Stewart (Sort of Books) 3,589 pounds 6.99

3 Eclipse Peter MacDonald (HarperCollins) 2,573 pounds 6.99

4 NoW Football Annual ed Eric Brown (CollinsWillow) 2,452 pounds 5.99

5 Men are from Mars John Gray (Thorsons) 2,325 pounds 8.99

6 Total Eclipse of the Sun Pam Hine (Yarner Press) 1,756 pounds 2.95

7 Stars Wars: visual dictionary David W Reynolds (DK) 1,711 pounds 12.99

8 The Naked Chef Jamie Oliver (M Joseph) 1,707 pounds 18.99

9 The 1999 Total Eclipse Patrick Moore (Boxtree) 1,446 pounds 3.99

10 Ainsley's Big Cook Out Ainsley Harriott (BBC) 1,434 pounds 14.99

ORIGINAL FICTION

TITLE AUTHOR/PUBLISHER WEEKLY PRICE

SALES

1 Harry Potter and... J K Rowling (Bloomsbury) 13,450 pounds 10.99

2 Mr Maybe Jane Green (Penguin) 9,206 pounds 6.99

3 The Kissing Garden Charlotte Bingham (Bantam) 7,258 pounds 5.99

4 Hannibal Thomas Harris (Heinemann) 6,715 pounds 16.99

5 Granny Dan Danielle Steel (Bantam) 5,691 pounds 9.99

6 The Making of Minty Malone Isabel Wolff (HarperCollins) 4,592 pounds 5.99

7 Hot Property Zoe Barnes (Piatkus) 4,479 pounds 5.99

8 City Woman Patricia Scanlan (Bantam) 2,871 pounds 5.99

9 Ralph's Party Lisa Jewell (Penguin) 2,590 pounds 5.99

10 Leaving Patrick Prue Leith (Penguin) 2,158 pounds 5.99