BOOKS: BEST-SELLERS

Hardbacks

1 Managing My Life Alex Ferguson/Hodder pounds 18.99

The bung not taken

2 The Business Iain Banks/Little, Brown pounds 16.99

Hip cultural references in heavy-handed satire

3 Hannibal Thomas Harris/Heinemann pounds 16.99

Harry Potter for grown-ups

4 How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Mark Collier & Bill Manley/British Museum Press pounds 9.99

Set text at Hogwarts Academy

5 Year 1000 Robert Lacey/Little, Brown pounds 12.99

How the English lived at the first millennium

6 Death du Jour Kathy Reichs/Heinemann pounds 10

More slice and dice than Jamie Oliver

7 Losing Nelson Barry Unsworth/Hamish Hamilton pounds 15.99

Satisfying, complex take on a British hero

8 Courtney: Heart of the Lion Courtney Walsh/Lancaster pounds 18.99

Cricketer's story

9 The Naked Chef Jamie Oliver/M Joseph pounds 18.99

He's young, daft and Estuarian, but his cooking's pukka

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

The sets! The outfits! The silly names!

Paperbacks

1 Charlotte Gray Sebastian Faulks/Vintage pounds 6.99

SOE shenanigans in perfect period underwear

2 Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire A Foreman/Flamingo pounds 8.99

Another irrepressible Spencer woman

3 About a Boy Nick Hornby/Indigo pounds 6.99

Feckless male makes friends with fatherless lad

4 A Widow for One Year John Irving/Black Swan pounds 7.99

Bereaved female novelist at three stages of her life

5 Amsterdam Ian McEwan/Vintage pounds 6.99

Over-schematic moral fable

6 Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler/Vintage pounds 6.99

Divorced dad seeks redemption

7 Once In a House On Fire Andrea Ashworth/Picador pounds 6.99

Memoir of an impoverished childhood marred by violent stepfathers

8 The Beach Alex Garland/Penguin pounds 6.99

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water

9 The Loop Nicholas Evans/Corgi pounds 5.99

The wolf whisperer

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

Fascists are nasty (except when they're colourful and Italian)