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1 Charlotte Gray Sebastian Faulks/Vintage pounds 6.99
Awfully brave gel deep under cover in wartime France
2 Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire A Foreman/Flamingo pounds 8.99
Unstable, unhappy Spencer woman meddles and intrigues
3 Amsterdam Ian McEwan/Vintage pounds 6.99
Over-schematic moral fable
4 About a Boy Nick Hornby/Indigo pounds 6.99
Feckless male makes friends with fatherless lad
5 A Widow for One Year John Irving/Black Swan pounds 7.99
Bereaved female novelist at three stages of her life
6 Rainbow Six Tom Clancy/Penguin pounds 6.99
Top anti-terrorist action from techno-thriller maestro
7 The Tesseract Alex Garland/Penguin pounds 6.99
Four tense tales interweave in the Philippines
8 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres/Vintage pounds 6.99
Film news: Johnny Depp tipped to play the musical military man
9 Stalingrad Anthony Beevor/Penguin pounds 12.99
This year's trivial, no-brainer beach read
10 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks/Vintage pounds 6.99
Compulsive, agonising First World War page-turner
Hardbacks
1 Managing My Life Alex Ferguson/Hodder pounds 18.99
The bung not taken
2 Hannibal Thomas Harris/Heinemann pounds 16.99
Harry Potter for grown-ups
3 The Business Iain Banks/Little, Brown pounds 16.99
Hip cultural references in heavy-handed satire
4 A Star Called Henry Roddy Doyle/Cape pounds 16.99
A hard look at the founding myths of the Republican struggle
5 Western Front Richard Holmes /BBC pounds 17.99
Tragedy of the trenches
6 Losing Nelson Barry Unsworth/Hamish Hamilton pounds 15.99
Satisfying, complex take on a British hero
7 Year 1000 Robert Lacey/Little Brown pounds 12.99
Looking back on the eve of the millennium
8 Headlong Michael Frayn/Faber pounds 16.99
Erudite art farce concerning a newly discovered Breughel
9 Almost A Crime Penny Vincenzi/Orion pounds 16.99
Spin-doctor's affair tears his family apart
10 Second Time Around Luke Nicoli & Kevin Phillips/CollinsWillow pounds 14.99
Sunderland fans must be buying this account of striker's success
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