The Independent on Sunday bestseller list
HARDBACKS
1 Magic Eye 2
by N E Thing Enterprises
Michael Joseph pounds 10.99 (2/19)
2 Delia Smith's Summer Collection
BBC Books pounds 14.99 (5/45)
3 Debt of Honour by Tom Clancy
HarperCollins pounds 15.99 (1/5)
4 Magic Eye
by N E Thing Enterprises
Michael Joseph pounds 10.99 (4/21)
5 Floyd on Italy by Keith Floyd
Michael Joseph pounds 16.99 (9/7)
6 In the Kitchen with Rosie
by Rosie Daley, Ebury pounds 9.99 (3/11)
7 Twelve Red Herrings by Jeffrey
Archer, HarperCollins pounds 14.99 (6/8)
8 Michelin Red Guide: France 1994
Michelin pounds 12.95 (-/21)
9 Complete Cookery Course by Delia Smith, BBC Books pounds 15.99 (-/10)
10Pears Cyclopaedia ed Christopher
Cook, Pelham pounds 14.99 (-/1)
11Summers Will Never be the Same
ed C Martin-Jenkins & P Gibson
Partridge Press pounds 12.99 (11/13)
12The Discworld Companion
by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Briggs
Gollancz pounds 14.99 (7/2)
13Faithfull by Marianne
Faithfull & David Dalton
Michael Joseph pounds 15.99 (12/2)
14Bardot by Sean French
Pavilion pounds 19.99 (-/1)
15Miller's Antiques Guide 1995 by Judith & Martin Miller, pounds 19.99 (-/1)
PAPERBACKS
1 A Spanish Lover
by Joanna Trollope
Black Swan pounds 5.99 (1/9)
2 Vanished by Danielle Steel
Corgi pounds 4.99 (5/2)
3 The Blue Afternoon
by William Boyd
Penguin pounds 5.99 (2/4)
4 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks Vintage pounds 5.99 (4/8)
5 Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
HarperCollins pounds 5.99 (8/11)
6 Cruel and Unusual by Patricia
D Cornwell, Warner pounds 4.99 (7/10)
7 The Client by John Grisham
Arrow pounds 5.99 (3/14)
8 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy
Doyle, Minerva pounds 5.99 (6/14)
9 The Shipping News by E Annie
Proulx, 4th Estate pounds 5.99 (9/4)
10Mr Murder by Dean Koontz
Headline pounds 5.99 (-/1)
11Taken on Trust by Terry Waite
Coronet pounds 5.99 (12/2)
12River God by Wilbur Smith
Pan pounds 5.99 (13/12)
13A Dangerous Fortune
by Ken Follett, Pan pounds 5.99 (15/8)
14Pleading Guilty by Scott Turow
Penguin pounds 5.99 (-/1)
15Tell Me the Truth about Love
by W H Auden, Faber pounds 2.50 (14/3)
(The first figure shows last week's place; the second shows appearances on this list)
BOOKER PRIZE WINNERS: Hardback sales in the year following publication
1 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
by Roddy Doyle
(1993): 120,000
2 Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally (1983): 90,000
3 The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis (1986): 80,000
4 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (1988): 70,000
5 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989): 65,000
6 Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
(1984): 62,000
7 Rites of Passage by William Golding (1980): 60,000
8 Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
(1987): 59,000
9 Possession by A S Byatt
(1990): 50,000
10The Life and Times of Michael K
by J M Coetzee (1983): 45,000
Compiled by Bookwatch
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