Books: The Independent on Sunday Bestseller List
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1 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T S Eliot, Faber pounds 3.99
2 Collected Poems by Philip Larkin, Faber pounds 9.99
3 New Selected Poems 1966-1987
by Seamus Heaney, Faber pounds 6.99
4 The Rattle Bag ed Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, Faber pounds 9.99
5 Selected Poems by Sylvia Plath,
Faber pounds 5.99
6 Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope, Faber pounds 5.99
7 The Best of Betjeman
by John Betjeman, Penguin pounds 5.99
8 Selected Poems of Elizabeth Jennings, Carcanet pounds 4.95
9 The New Oxford Book of English Verse, OUP pounds 16.95
10Defying Gravity,
by Roger McGough, Penguin pounds 6.99
The first figure in square brackets shows last week's place; the second shows the number of appearances on this list. Compiled by Bookwatch (week ending 24 October)
HARDBACKS
1 The Downing Street Years
by Margaret Thatcher
HarperCollins pounds 25 (-/1)
2 Bravo Two-Zero by Andy McNab Bantam pounds 14.99 (3/2)
3 Taken on Trust by Terry Waite
Hodder pounds 14.99 (2/5)
4 Mrs de Winter by Susan Hill Sinclair-Stevenson pounds 12.99 (1/3)
5 Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend
Methuen pounds 8.99 (4/5)
6 A Short Walk from Harrods by Dirk Bogarde, Viking pounds 15.99 (5/3)
7 Delia Smith's Summer Collection
BBC pounds 14.99 (6/5)
8 Black Holes and Baby Universes by Stephen Hawking, Bantam pounds 16.99 (-/1)
9 Some Other Rainbow by McCarthy & Morrell, Bantam pounds 14.99 (9/5)
10Guinness Book of Records 1994
ed Peter Matthews,
Guinness pounds 14.99 (-/1)
11Decider by Dick Francis
Michael Joseph pounds 14.99 (10/5)
12Mind Over Matter
by Ranulph Fiennes,
Sinclair-Stevenson pounds 16.99 (11/2)
13The Golden Straw by Catherine Cookson, Bantam pounds 14.99 (8/3)
14Delia Smith's Christmas
BBC pounds 12.95 (-/1)
15The Diary of Jack the Ripper
by Shirley Harrison
Smith Gryphon pounds 14.99 (14/2)
PAPERBACKS
1 The Bridges of Madison County
by Robert James Waller
Mandarin pounds 3.99 (1/5)
2 Mostly Harmless
by Douglas Adams
Pan pounds 4.99 (3/3)
3 This Other Eden by Ben Elton Pocket Books pounds 5.99 (2/3)
4 Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Flamingo pounds 6.99 (4/5)
5 The Maltese Angel
by Catherine Cookson
Corgi pounds 4.99 (5/3)
6 The Queen and I by Sue Townsend Mandarin pounds 4.99 (6/5)
7 The Firm by John Grisham
Arrow pounds 4.99 (7/5)
8 The Men and the Girls
by Joanna Trollope
Black Swan pounds 5.99 (9/5)
9 Only You Can Save Mankind
by Terry Pratchett
Corgi pounds 3.99 (8/4)
10Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, Black Swan pounds 5.99 (11/3)
11Paperweight by Stephen Fry
Mandarin pounds 5.99 (-/1)
12The Pelican Brief by John
Grisham, Arrow pounds 4.99 (14/5)
13Rising Sun by Michael Crichton Arrow pounds 4.99 (15/2)
14The Secret History by Donna
Tartt, Penguin pounds 5.99 (10/5)
15Every Living Thing by
James Herriot, Pan pounds 4.99 (13/5)
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