Books: The Independent on Sunday Bestseller list

COOKERY

1 Delia Smith's Christmas

BBC pounds 12.95

2 Delia Smith's Summer Collection

BBC pounds 14.99

3 The Wartime Kitchen and Garden

by Jennifer Davies, BBC pounds 14.99

4 Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course (paperback), BBC pounds 9.99

5 Mireille Johnson's French Cookery Course Part 2, BBC pounds 9.99

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6 Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course (hardback), BBC pounds 14.95

7 Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Illustrated Course, BBC pounds 19.95

8 New All-Colour Cookbook

Hamlyn pounds 6.99

9 Real Fast Food by Nigel Slater

Penguin pounds 5.99

10Good Housekeeping Step-by-Step Cookbook, Ebury Press pounds 19.99

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

HARDBACKS

1 The Downing Street Years

by Margaret Thatcher

HarperCollins pounds 25 (1/5)

2 Bravo Two-Zero by Andy McNab Bantam pounds 14.99 (3/6)

3 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by

Roddy Doyle, Secker pounds 12.99 (2/8)

4 Delia Smith's Christmas

BBC pounds 12.95 (5/5)

5 The Friendship Book by Francis Gay D C Thomson pounds 3.75 (9/3)

6 Mrs de Winter by Susan Hill

Sinclair-Stevenson pounds 12.99 (4/7)

7 Taken on Trust by Terry Waite

Hodder pounds 14.99 (6/9)

8 Mind Over Matter

by Ranulph Fiennes

Sinclair-Stevenson pounds 16.99 (8/6)

9 The Guinness Book of Records 1994 ed Peter Matthews, pounds 14.99 (10/4)

10Some Other Rainbow by

John McCarthy & Jill Morrell

Bantam pounds 14.99 (14/9)

11Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend

Methuen pounds 8.99 (7/9)

12Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book 1994, Mitchell Beazley pounds 7.99 (-/5)

13The Willows in Winter

by William Horwood

HarperCollins pounds 12.99 (-/1)

14Delia Smith's Summer Collection

BBC pounds 14.99 (-/7)

15Decider by Dick Francis

Michael Joseph pounds 14.99 (-/7)

PAPERBACKS

1 Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett

Corgi pounds 4.99 (1/3)

2 Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Flamingo pounds 6.99 (4/9)

3 The Bridges of Madison County

by Robert James Waller

Mandarin pounds 3.99 (2/9)

4 This Other Eden by Ben Elton Pocket Books pounds 5.99 (5/7)

5 Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams

Pan pounds 4.99 (3/7)

6 The Maltese Angel

by Catherine Cookson

Corgi pounds 4.99 (8/7)

7 River God by Wilbur Smith Macmillan pounds 9.99 (9/3)

8 Dolores Claiborne

by Stephen King

NEL pounds 4.99 (6/4)

9 Giles Annual No. 47

Pedigree pounds 3.95 (-/1)

10The Queen and I by Sue Townsend

Mandarin pounds 4.99 (7/9)

11The Days Are Just Packed

by Bill Watterson

Warner pounds 5.99 (10/3)

12The Men and the Girls

by Joanna Trollope

Black Swan pounds 5.99 (12/9)

13Every Living Thing by James Herriot, Pan pounds 4.99 (-/6)

14Paperweight by Stephen Fry

Mandarin pounds 5.99 (11/5)

15The Firm by John Grisham

Arrow pounds 4.99 (13/9)