BOOKS / The Independent on Sunday bestseller list

----------------------------------------------------------------- THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY BESTSELLER LIST ----------------------------------------------------------------- HARDBACKS ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1 The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry Hutchinson pounds 14.99 (1/3) 2 Delia Smith's Summer Collection BBC Books pounds 14.99 (7/25) 3 Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic, Viking pounds 9.99 (2/7) 4 Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab Bantam Press pounds 14.99 (4/26) 5 Michelin Red Guide: France 1994 Michelin pounds 12.95 (3/4) 6 Tony Curtis: The Autobiography by Tony Curtis with Barry Paris Heinemann pounds 16.99 (6/5) 7 The Fred Dibnah Story by Fred Dibnah, BBC Books pounds 12.99 (12/2) 8 Magic Eye by N E Thing Enterprises, M Joseph pounds 10.99 (5/3) 9 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle, Secker pounds 12.99 (13/28) 10 Rotten by John Lydon NEL pounds 14.99 (14/2) 11 The Empty Raincoat by Charles Handy, Hutchinson pounds 10.99 (8/7) 12 Justice is a Woman by Catherine Cookson, Bantam pounds 14.99 (-/3) 13 Complete Illustrated Cookery Course by Delia Smith BBC Books pounds 22.99 (-/4) 14 City Lights by Keith Waterhouse Hodder pounds 16.99 (11/2) 15 Cantona - My Story by Eric Cantona & George Scanlan Headline pounds 15.99 (-/3) ----------------------------------------------------------------- PAPERBACKS ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Some Other Rainbow by John McCarthy & Jill Morrell Corgi pounds 5.99 (2/2) 2 Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, Sceptre pounds 5.99 (1/9) 3 Honour Among Thieves by Jeffrey Archer, HarperCollins pounds 5.99 (4/2) 4 A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth Phoenix pounds 8.99 (3/6) 5 Wild Swans by Jung Chang Flamingo pounds 7.99 (6/29) 6 Gai-Jin by James Clavell Coronet pounds 6.99 (5/4) 7 Gardens of England & Wales Open to the Public 1994 National Gardens Scheme pounds 3 (8/7) 8 The Children of Men by P D James Penguin pounds 4.99 (13/4) 9 The Pelican Brief by John Grisham, Arrow pounds 4.99 (11/10) 10 Johnny and the Dead by Terry Pratchett, Corgi pounds 3.99 (9/6) 11 Talismans of Shannara by Terry Brooks, Legend pounds 5.99 (14/4) 12 The Year of the Virgins by Catherine Cookson, Corgi pounds 4.99 (7/6) 13 Diaries by Alan Clark Phoenix pounds 6.99 (10/6) 14 Playfair Cricket Annual 1994 ed Bill Frindall, Headline pounds 3.99 (-/1) 15 The Rector's Wife by Joanna Trollope, Black Swan pounds 5.99 (12/8) (The first figure shows last week's place; the second shows appearances on this list.)

----------------------------------------------------------------- PAPERBACK ROMANCE ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1 The Year of the Virgins by Catherine Cookson Corgi pounds 4.99 2 The Rector's Wife by Joanna Trollope, Black Swan pounds 5.99 3 Shadowlands by Leonora Fleischer, Headline pounds 4.99 4 The Men and the Girls by Joanna Trollope Black Swan pounds 5.99 5 Middlemarch by George Eliot Penguin pounds 3.99 6 The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Black Swan pounds 5.99 7 Nobody's Darling by Josephine Cox, Headline pounds 5.99 8 Night Shall Overtake Us by Kate Saunders Arrow pounds 4.99 9 Flavour of the Month by Olivia Goldsmith Mandarin pounds 5.99 10 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Penguin pounds 4.99 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Compiled by Bookwatch -----------------------------------------------------------------