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1 Fifth Elephant Terry Pratchett/Doubleday pounds 16.99
Werewolves and vampires in the 24th Discworld yarn
2 Adrian Mole Sue Townsend/M Joseph pounds 14.99
Nerd becomes a celebrity chef and a single parent
3 Disgrace J M Coetzee/Secker pounds 14.99
Personal accountability in the new South Africa. Booker Prize-winner
4 'Tis Frank McCourt/Flamingo pounds 17.99 The next instalment from the author of `Angela's Ashes'
5 If Only Geri Halliwell/Bantam pounds 16.99 The tears, the triumphs, the platform shoes, the fake love affairs
6 White Cap and Bails Dickie Bird/Hodder pounds 18.99 Cricket anecdotes and yarns
7 The Autobiography John Major/HarperCollins pounds 25
They were all bastards. Oh yes
8 Walking with Dinosaurs Tim Haines/BBC pounds 19.99 Long- extinct beasties stalk the land
9 Galileo's Daughter Dava Sobel/Fourth Estate pounds 16.99
A biography of Galileo revealed through letters from his daughter
10 New British Classics Gary Rhodes/BBC pounds 20 Return of the modernist of British cuisine
Paperbacks
1 Carpe Jugulum Terry Pratchett/Corgi pounds 5.99
Supernatural civil war in the small Discworld kingdom
2 The English Jeremy Paxman/Penguin pounds 7.99
Bill Bryson's sneering Limey equivalent?
3 Internet: The Rough Guide A J Kennedy/Rough Guides pounds 6 Don't forget to log on first
4 Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt/Flamingo pounds 7.99
Growing up poor and oppressed in Ireland
5 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks/Vintage pounds 6.99 From adulterous bed to the hell of the trenches
6 Archangel Robert Harris/Arrow pounds 5.99
Stalin's diaries turn up in modern Moscow
7 Stalingrad Antony Beevor/Penguin pounds 12.99
Harrowing account of two-year struggle for the Eastern front
8 Last Chance Saloon Marian Keyes/M Joseph pounds 9.99 The lifes, loves and diets of Irish gals in London
9 Dead Souls Ian Rankin/Orion pounds 5.99
Labyrinthine thriller featuring Detective John Rebus
10 A Man in Full Tom Wolfe/Picador pounds 10 Sprawling satire of greed and debt
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