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Your support makes all the difference.Want to write a bestseller? A glance at this week's fiction list should, in theory, show you exactly how to do it: forget highbrow literary endeavour, just recount the activities of a thirtyish female in search of Mr Right. But beware, the sole new entry in the top ten neatly reverses this principle. Prue Leith's heroine already owns a Mr Right, but has chucked him for a fling with a dashing foreigner. Can the fictional tide be turning...?
Compiled on sales over seven days to 28 August.
Bookwatch Ltd, 1999
SPORT
TITLE AUTHOR/PUBLISHER WEEKLY PRICE
SALES
1 Managing My Life Alex Ferguson (Hodder) 13,928 pounds 18.99
2 Addicted Tony Adams & Ian Ridley (CollinsWillow) 3,083 pounds 6.99
2 Rothman's Football Yearbook ed G & J Rollin (Headline) 1,463 pounds 18.99
4 NoW Football Annual ed Eric Brown (CollinsWillow) 1,053 pounds 5.99
5 Playfair Football Annual ed G & J Rollin (Headline) 464 pounds 4.99
6 One Jump Ahead Mark Howard (Mark Howard) 427 pounds 4.99
7 Fever Pitch Nick Hornby (Indigo) 424 pounds 6.99
8 Graham Henry: supercoach Bob Howitt (Lennard/QA) 351 pounds 16.99
9 My Autobiography Bobby Robson & Bob Harris (Pan) 341 pounds 6.99
10 Man United Ruined My Life Colin Shindler (Headline) 306 pounds 5.99
ORIGINAL NON-FICTION
TITLE AUTHOR/PUBLISHER WEEKLY PRICE
SALES
1 Managing My Life Alex Ferguson (Hodder) 13,928 pounds 18.99
2 Driving Over Lemons Chris Stewart (Sort of Books) 3,650 pounds 6.99
3 Traditional Farmhouse Teas Janice Murfitt (Mustard) 3,201 pounds 0.99
4 Men are from Mars... John Gray (Thorsons) 2,415 pounds 8.99
5 Rothman's Football Yearbook ed G & J Rollin (Headline) 1,463 pounds 18.99
6 The Naked Chef Jamie Oliver (M Joseph) 1,454 pounds 18.99
7 Medicine (Siena) 1,202 pounds 0.99
8 The Western Front Richard Holmes (BBC) 1,142 pounds 17.99
9 NoW Football Annual ed Eric Brown (CollinsWillow) 1,053 pounds 5.99
10 Stars Wars: visual dictionary David W Reynolds (DK) 1,027 pounds 12.99
ORIGINAL FICTION
TITLE AUTHOR/PUBLISHER WEEKLY PRICE
SALES
1 The Kissing Garden Charlotte Bingham (Bantam) 7,994 pounds 5.99
2 Harry Potter and... J K Rowling (Bloomsbury) 7,262 pounds 10.99
3 Mr Maybe Jane Green (Penguin) 6,788 pounds 6.99
4 The Making of Minty Malone Isabel Wolff (HarperCollins) 6,125 pounds 5.99
5 Hannibal Thomas Harris (Heinemann) 4,485 pounds 16.99
6 Granny Dan Danielle Steel (Bantam) 3,842 pounds 9.99
7 Hot Property Zoe Barnes (Piatkus) 3,013 pounds 5.99
8 The Business Iain Banks (Little, Brown) 1,987 pounds 16.99
9 Ralph's Party Lisa Jewell (Penguin) 1,833 pounds 5.99
10 Leaving Patrick Prue Leith (Penguin) 1,583 pounds 5.99
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