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Sunday 09 August 1998 00:02 BST
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TOP FILMS

1 (-) Lost In Space (PG) New pounds 3,127,079

2 (-) Dr Doolittle (PG) New pounds 3,047,574

3 (1) Godzilla (PG) 3 pounds 12,029,679

4 (2) The Wedding Singer (12) 9 pounds 8,116,313

5 (3) 6 Days, 7 Nights (12) 5 pounds 4,253,635

6 (4) Grease (PG) 5 pounds 3,664,162

7 (5) Barney's Great Adventure (U) 6 pounds 1,427,311

8 (-) The Castle (15) 2 pounds 156,556

9 (7) The Little Mermaid (U) 6 pounds 1,111,851

10 (9) The Magic Sword (U) 2 pounds 424,555

TOP ALBUMS

1 (1) Jane McDonald Jane McDonald Focus Music Int

2 (2) Talk On Corners The Corrs Atlantic

3 (7) International Velvet Catatonia Blanco y Negro

4 (6) Postcards from Heaven Lighthouse Family Wild Card

5 (3) Desireless Eagle-Eye Cherry Polydor

6 (4) Let's Talk About Love Celine Dion Epic

7 (10) Life Thru A Lens Robbie Williams Chrysalis

8 (8) Version 2.0 Garbage Mushroom

9 (5) Hello Nasty Beastie Boys Grand Royal

10 (9) Blue Simply Red East West

TOP SINGLES

1 (1) Viva Forever Spice Girls Virgin

2 (-) Come With Me Puff Daddy ft Jimmy P Epic

3 (3) Ghetto Supastar Pras Michel ft ODB Interscope

4 (-) Lost In Space Apollo Four Forty Stealth Sonic

5 (7) Life Is a Flower Ace of Base London

6 (4) Freak Me Another Level Northwestside

7 (-) I Can't Help Myself Lucid FFRR

8 (2) Just the Two of Us Will Smith Columbia

9 (5) Deeper Underground Jamiroquai Sony

10 (8) Save Tonight Eagle-Eye Cherry Polydor

VIDEO RETAIL

1 X-Files 12 The End

2 Babylon 5 The Movie

3 Lady and the Tramp

4 Jerry Springer - Too Hot For TV

5 Hercules - Disney

6 Kentucky Fried Movie

7 ID

8 Pet Sematary

9 Army of Darkness

10 Killing Zoe

VIDEO RENTAL

1 Starship Troopers (18)

2 Devil's Advocate (18)

3 The Jackal (18)

4 I Know What You Did Last Summer (18)

5 George of the Jungle (U)

6 Boogie Nights (18)

7 Face/Off (18)

8 The Borrowers (U)

9 Copland (18)

10 Tomorrow Never Dies (12)

HARDBACKS

1 Alexander the Great Michael Wood BBC pounds 17.99

2 The Last Continent Terry Pratchett Doubleday pounds 16.99

3 Stalingrad Antony Beevor Viking pounds 25

4 The Guv'nor LMcLean/PGerrard Blake pounds 14.99

5 Model Behaviour Jay McInerney Bloomsbury pounds 14.99

6 Pathways: Star Trek Voyager Jeri Taylor Pocket Books pounds 9.99

7 Diana: Portrait of a Princess Jayne Fincher B Taschen pounds 19.99

8 Shards of a Broken Crown Raymond E Feist Voyager pounds 17.99

9 Through A Glass Darkly Jostein Gaarder Phoenix House pounds 9.99

10 Man Who Loved Only Numbers Paul Hoffman Fourth Estate pounds 12.99

PAPERBACKS

1 Enduring Love Ian McEwan Vintage pounds 6.99

2 The God Of Small Things Arundhati Roy Flamingo pounds 6.99

3 Memoirs Of A Geisha Arthur Golden Vintage pounds 6.99

4 Quarantine Jim Crace Penguin pounds 6.99

5 Filth Irvine Welsh Cape pounds 9.99

6 Clothes They Stood Up In Alan Bennett Profile Books pounds 3.99

7 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres Minerva pounds 6.99

8 Falling Leaves Return ... Yen Adeline Penguin pounds 6.99

9 Larry's Party Carol Shields Fourth Estate pounds 6.99 10 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding Picador pounds 5.99

2 The Little Book of Calm

Paul Wilson (Penguin, pounds 1.99, 0140 26065X)

3 Cold Mountain

Charles Frazier (Hodder, pounds 6.99, 0340 680598)

4 Bridget Jones' Diary

Helen Fielding (Picador, pounds 6.99, 0330332775)

5 Quarantine

Jim Crace (Penguin, pounds 6.99, 0140 23974X)

6 Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Louis de Bernieres (Minerva, pounds 6.99, 0749 397543)

7 Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby (Fourth Estate, pounds 5.99, 1857 027949)

8 Human Croquet

Kate Atkinson (Black Swan, pounds 6.99, 0552 9619X)

9 High Fidelity

Nick Hornby (Indigo, pounds 5.99, 0575 400188)

10 The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy (Flamingo, pounds 5.99, 0006 550681)

Film list supplied by `Screen International', video lists by Blockbusters, music lists by CIN and book lists by Waterstone's

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