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1 Hannibal Thomas Harris/Heinemann pounds 16.99
Clarice and the Cannibal - together again
2 The Naked Chef Jamie Oliver/M Joseph pounds 18.99
Mmmm, it's still really pukka
3 Star Wars: Episode One Dorling Kindersley pounds 12.99
The visual dictionary, should you need such a thing
4 Midnight Falcon David A Gemmell/Bantam pounds 16.99
He's `the king of heroic fantasy', apparently
5 The Planets David McNab & James Jounger/BBC pounds 9.99
Heavenly TV tie-in and moneyspinner
6 Star Wars: Episode One Terry Brooks/Century pounds 15.99
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into a bookshop
7 The Science of Discworld Terry Pratchett etc/Ebury pounds 14.99
Two boffins explain how Pratchett's magic could work
8 Score! Jilly Cooper/Bantam pounds 16.99
Rumpy-pumpy in the world of classical music
9 One Virgin Too Many Lindsey Davis/Century pounds 15.99
Ancient Roman sleuth Falco comes to rescue of Vestal Virgin
10 East Of The Mountains David Guterson/Bloomsbury pounds 16.99
A thwarted euthanasia suicide
Paperbacks
1 A Widow For One Year John Irving/Black Swan pounds 7.99
Bereaved female novelist at three stages of her life
2 Point Of Origin Patricia Cornwell/Warner pounds 5.99
Homicidal lesbian targets Kay Scarpetta
3 About A Boy Nick Hornby/Indigo pounds 6.99
Feckless male befriends fatherless lad
4 Tara Road Maeve Binchy/Orion pounds 6.99
House swap leads to romantic tangles
5 Georgina Duchess Of DevonshireAmanda Foreman/Flamingo pounds 8.99
A story of 18th-century celebrity
6 Amsterdam Ian McEwan/Vintage pounds 6.99
Below-par McEwan finds favour
7 Ralph's Party Lisa Jewell/Penguin pounds 5.99
Inhabitants of London house mix and match
8 Internet: Rough Guide Angus J Kennedy/Rough Guides pounds 5.99
Armchair tourists for the new millennium
9 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres/Vintage pounds 6.99
Strangely uneven, yet strangely captivating
10 The Breaker Minette Walters/Pan pounds 5.99
A woman's body is washed up on a beach. Dorset-set murder mystery
UK Films
THIS LAST WEEKS GROSS TO
WEEK WEEK IN CHART 13 JUNE
1 (-) The Matrix (15) New pounds 3,384,948
Starring some special effects and a man called Keanu
2 (1) Notting Hill (15) 4 pounds 14,983,103
Ms Celebrity meets Mr Ordinary
3 (2) She's All That (12) 4 pounds 4,571,676
More life lessons for dull American teenagers
4 (3) Human Traffic (18) 2 pounds 1,038,676
Three days in the life of the youth of today
5 (4) My Favourite Martian (PG) 3 pounds 1,343,251
Bad 1960s sitcom becomes an even worse 1990s movie
6 (5) The King & I (U) 3 pounds 86,178
Rogers and Hammerstein meet Disney
7 (6) Virus (18) 2 pounds 372,574
Donald Sutherland overdoes it as psychotic space pirate
8 (7) The Rugrats Movie (U) 12 pounds 12,888,462
Animation with the nasty suburban toddlers
9 (8) I Still Know What You ... (18) 6 pounds 32,657,571
Any guesses what the next sequel will be called?
10 (9) The Waterboy (12) 7 pounds 3,379,617
Dire Adam Sandler no-brainer
US Films
THIS LAST WEEKS GROSS TO
WEEK WEEK IN CHART 13 JUNE
1 (-) Austin Powers 2 New $57,442,692
Groovy, baby!
2 (1) Star Wars: Phantom Menace 4 $296,964,911
See for yourself on 16 July
3 (2) Notting Hill 3 $67,518,100
It's doing well, considering the competition
4 (3) Instinct 2 $21,252,744
Hopkins as a psychiatrist turned psychopath. Sound familiar?
5 (4) The Mummy 6 $136,213,325
`The adventure is reborn'. Or so it claims
6 (6) Entrapment 7 $79,439,412
Connery and Zeta Jones's adventure
7 (6) The Matrix 11 $161,387,885
Fantastic sci-fi special effects saga with Keanu Reeves
8 (7) The Thirteenth Floor 3 $9,653,058
Virtual reality thriller from the makers of `Godzilla'
9 (12) Tea With Mussolini 5 $7,682,969
Cher in an otherwise British period drama
10 (8) Never Been Kissed 10 $51,944,231
Drew Barrymore goes back to school with bad hair
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