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Hardbacks

1 An Equal Music Vikram Seth/Phoenix House pounds 16.99

String quartet beats Rushdie's rock opera

2 The Naked Chef Jamie Oliver/M.Jospeph pounds 18.99

Companion book to the TV heart-throb

3 Soul of the Fire Terry Goodkind/Orion pounds 16.99

Sword and sorcery epic reaches fifth installment.

4 The Whole Woman Germaine Greer/Doubleday pounds 16.99

Trumping the young hussies

5 Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Stephen King/Hodder pounds 12.99

All alone in the forest except for a radio

6 The Ground Beneath Her Feet Salman Rushdie/Cape pounds 18.00

Orpheus and Eurydice in the hit parade

7 Monsoon Wilbur Smith/Macmillan pounds 17.99

Historical seafaring saga

8 Lighthouse Stevensons Bella Bathurst/HarperCollins pounds 15.99

Longitude-alike

9 Others James Herbert/Macmillan pounds 16.99

Weirdy blockbuster

10 Business At The Speed Of Thought Bill Gates/Penguin pounds 18.99

Into the future with billionaire Bill

Paperbacks

1 The Grown-Ups' Book of Books Adult Book of Books pounds 1.00

Extracts from classics introduced by Vanessa Feltz.

2 About A Boy Nick Hornby/Indigo pounds 6.99

Feckless male makes friends with fatherless lad

3 Internet: Rough Guide Angus J Kennedy/Rough Guides pounds 5.99

The unspoilt beaches of cyberspace

4 Master Georgie Beryl Bainbridge/Abacus pounds 6.99

Weirdness abounds during Crimean War

5 Once In A House On Fire Andrea Ashworth/Picador pounds 6.99

Touching tale of abuse survivor

6 Amsterdam Ian McEwan/Vintage pounds 6.99

Slim Booker winner, even slimmer in paperback

7 The Travelling Horn Player Barbara Trapido/Penguin pounds 6.99

Further adventures of the characters we've grown to love

8 Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler/Vintage pounds 6.99

Feelgood family fiction

9 Men Are From Mars ... John Gray/Thorsons pounds 9.99

Another fix of sexist stereotyping

10 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden/Vintage pounds 6.99

Male spy in the House of Love

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Nicholas Cage and Joel Schumacher reach new low

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Bodysnatchers invade US high school

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Beachcomber finds Kevin Costner's love letter

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Animation with those nasty surburban toddlers

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Two Irishmen think it should be them

7 (6) Shakespeare In Love 13 pounds 19,714,425

The Bard makes it big again

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Mel Gibson's ultraviolent remake of 'Point Blank'

9 (7) Mighty Joe Young 5 pounds 3,573,679

Is this gorilla the new King Kong?

10 (8) Plunkett And Macleane 4 pounds 2,597,574

Futile frolics, frills and fops

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Finally, Eddie Murphy in a prison

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Sci-fi special effects saga with Keanu Reeves

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Drew Barrymore goes back to school with bad hair

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Robert De Niro hams it up in a criminally funny comedy

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A dumbed-down 'Taming Of The Shrew'

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Comedy crime caper from director of 'Swingers'

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Goldie Hawn comes over all giddy. Again

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Sandra Bullock pouts in a romantic comedy. UK release 7 May

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Robert Altman heads for Mississippi for his 33rd film

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Singles

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1 (-) Swear it Again Westlife

2 (-) Right Here Right Now Fatboy Slim

3 (1) Perfect Moment Martine McCutcheon

4 (-) In Our Lifetime Texas

5 (-) Red Alert Basement Jaxx

6 (-) What's it Gonna Be?! Busta Rhymes Ft Janet

7 (-) Bye Bye Baby TQ

8 (2) Turn Around Phats & Small

9 (6) No Scrubs TLC

10 (7) Witch Doctor Cartoons

4 (4) Strong Robbie Williams

6 (6) Better Best Forgotten Steps

7 (7) It's Not Right But It's Okay Whitney Houston

8 (8) My Love Kele Le Roc

9 (9) Music To Watch The Girls ... Andy Williams

10 (10) Tender Blur

Albums

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3 (-) Rides Reef

4 (4) Talk On Corners The Corrs

5 (6) You've Come A Long Way Baby Fat Boy Slim

6 (3) Forgiven, Not Forgotten The Corrs

7 (-) Bury the Hatchet The Cranberries

8 (5) Performance and Cocktails Stereophonics

9 (-) Mule Variations Tom Waits 10 (7) I've Been Expecting You Robbie Williams