Books: The Independent on Sunday bestseller list

HARDBACKS

1 A Parliamentary Affair

by Edwina Currie

Hodder pounds 15.99 (-/1)

2 My Secrets by Joan Collins

Boxtree pounds 14.99 (2/3)

3 An Imaginative Experience

by Mary Wesley

Bantam pounds 14.99 (-/1)

4 Bravo Two-Zero by Andy McNab

Bantam pounds 14.99 (1/17)

5 Disclosure by Michael Crichton Century pounds 14.99 (3/3)

6 Michelin 1994; Red Guide

to Britain & Ireland

Michelin pounds 10.95 (-/1)

7 The Touch of Innocents

by Michael Dobbs

HarperCollins pounds 9.99 (13/2)

8 The Power by Colin Forbes

Pan pounds 14.99 (-/1)

9 The Matisse Stories

by A S Byatt, Chatto pounds 9.99 (6/2)

10Great Railway Journeys

by Clive Anderson et al

BBC pounds 18.99 (7/4)

11Chronicle of 1993 ed Andrew Hunt, Chronicle pounds 9.99 (-/1)

12Eat Your Greens by Sophie Grigson, Network pounds 12.99 (10/3)

13Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

by Roddy Doyle

Secker pounds 12.99 (4/19)

14Pemberley by Emma Tennant

Hodder pounds 9.99 (-/1)

15Life in the Freezer

by Alastair Fothergill

BBC pounds 18.99 (8/11)

PAPERBACKS

1 Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Flamingo pounds 6.99 (1/20)

2 Middlemarch by George Eliot Penguin pounds 3.99 (2/3)

3 Theory of War by Jean Brady

Abacus pounds 6.99 (-/1)

4 By Stealth by Colin Forbes

Pan pounds 4.99 (7/2)

5 Missing Joseph by Elizabeth George, Corgi pounds 4.99 (-/1)

6 Rebel by Bernard Cornwell HarperCollins pounds 4.99 (3/5)

7 The Pelican Brief by John Grisham, Arrow pounds 4.99 (14/9)

8 The Bridges of Madison County

by Robert James Waller

Mandarin pounds 3.99 (4/20)

9 Maybe the Moon by Armistead

Maupin, Black Swan pounds 5.99 (9/5)

10The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Penguin pounds 4.99 (10/2)

11The Liverpool Basque

by Helen Forrester

HarperCollins pounds 4.99 (6/2)

12The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Faber pounds 4.99 (15/2)

13Mixed Blessings by Danielle Steel, Corgi pounds 4.99 (5/10)

14Driving Force by Dick Francis

Pan pounds 4.99 (8/8)

15Madam Doubtfire by Anne Fine

Penguin pounds 4.99 (-/1)

The first figure in square brackets shows last week's place; the second shows the number of appearances on this list.

FOOD & DRINK

1 Egon Ronay's Cellnet Hotel &

Restaurant Guide, Pan pounds 14.99

2 The Good Pub Guide

ed Alastair Aird

Vermilion pounds 12.99

3 Superplonk by Malcolm

Gluck, Faber pounds 4.99

4 The Good Beer Guide

ed Jeff Evans, CAMRA pounds 8.99

5 The Food Lover's Guide to Britain

by Henrietta Green, BBC pounds 9.99

6 The Good Food Guide ed Tom

Jaine, CA/Hodder pounds 14.99

7 Evening Standard Guide to London's

Restaurants, ed Fay Maschler

Pavilion pounds 9.99

8 Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book

Mitchell Beazley pounds 7.99

9 Oz Clarke's Wine Guide

Mitchell Beazley pounds 9.99

10The Big Food and Drink Book

by Michael Barry & Jilly

Goolden, BBC pounds 18.99

Compiled by Bookwatch