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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
UK Films
THIS LAST WEEKS GROSS
WEEK WEEK IN CHART TO 25 APRIL
1 (-) 8MM NEW pounds 733,535
Nicholas Cage and Joel Schumacher reach new low
2 (1) The Faculty 3 pounds 3,170,453
Bodysnatchers invade US high school
3 (-) Message in a Bottle New pounds 579,997
Beachcomber finds Kevin Costner's love letter
4 (2) The Rugrats Movie 5 pounds 11,200,962
Animation with those nasty surburban toddlers
5 (3) An Ideal Husband 2 pounds 1,182,894
And an ideal role for Rupert Everett
6 (4) Waking Ned 6 pounds 5,900,582
Two Irishmen think it should be them
7 (6) Shakespeare In Love 13 pounds 19,714,425
The Bard makes it big again
8 (5) Payback 5 pounds 4,420,598
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
US Films
THIS LAST WEEKS GROSS
WEEK WEEK IN CHART TO 22 APRIL
1 (1) Life 2 $225,758,430
Finally, Eddie Murphy in a prison
2 (2) The Matrix 4 $104,440,275
Sci-fi special effects saga with Keanu Reeves
3 (3) Never Been Kissed 3 $24,998,424
Drew Barrymore goes back to school with bad hair
4 (4) Analyze This 8 $92,359,461
Robert De Niro hams it up in a criminally funny comedy
5 (5) 10 Things I Hate About You $26,054,471
A dumbed-down 'Taming Of The Shrew'
6 (7) Go 3 $10,481,322
Comedy crime caper from director of 'Swingers'
7 (6) The Out Of Towners 4 $21,292,973
Goldie Hawn comes over all giddy. Again
8 (8) Forces Of Nature 6 $46,501,226
Sandra Bullock pouts in a romantic comedy. UK release 7 May
9 (9) Cookie's Fortune 4 $3,862,860
Robert Altman heads for Mississippi for his 33rd film
10 (10) Shakespeare In Love 20 $90,404,750
A real tear-jerker. Just look at its star
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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1 (2) Gold - Greatest Hits Abba
2 (1) Equally Cursed And Blessed Catatonia
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
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