1. The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy (Flamingo) 2. Unnatural Exposure, by Patricia Cornwell (Warner) 3. Deception on His Mind, by Elizabeth George (Coronet) 4. Mirror, Mirror, by Patricia Scanlan (Poolbeg) 5. A Taste of Freedom, by Liz Ryan (Coronet)
Paperback Non-Fiction
1. Little Book of Calm, by Paul Wilson (Penguin) 2. Longitude, by Dava Sobel (Fourth Estate) 3. Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt (HarperCollins) 4. The General (film tie-in), by Paul Williams (O'Brien Press) 5. Fermat's Last Theorem, by Simon Singh (Fourth Estate)
Hardback Fiction
1. The Eleventh Commandment, by Jeffrey Archer (HarperCollins) 2. The Street Lawyer, by John Grisham (Century) 3. Shards of a Broken Crown, by Raymond F. Feist (HarperCollins) 4. Cities of the Plain, by Cormac McCarthy (Picador) 5. Breakfast on Pluto, by Patrick McCabe (Picador)
Hardback Non-Fiction
1. Anam Cara, by John O'Donoghue (Bantam Press) 2. The Surgeon of Crowthorne, by Simon Winchester (Viking) 3. The Informer, by Sean O'Callaghan (Bantam Press) 4. Delia Smith's Summer Collection (BBC) 5. Stalingrad, by Antony Beevor (Viking)
Children's
1. Irish Legends for Children, retold by Yvonne Carroll (Gill & Macmillan) 2. Favourite Irish Fairy Tales, by Soinbhe Lally (Poolbeg) 3. Goosebumps 58: Deep Trouble II, by R.L. Stine (Scholastic) 4. Goosebumps 57: My Best Friend Is Invisible, by R.L. Stine (Scholastic) 5. Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (Maybe), by Siobhan Parkinson (O'Brien Press)
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Hardback Fiction
1. Sharpe's Triumph, by Bernard Cornwell (HarperCollins) 2. The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday) 3. The Eleventh Commandment, by Jeffrey Archer (HarperCollins) 4. The Street Lawyer, by John Grisham (Century) 5. Inversions, by Iain M. Banks (Orbit)
Hardback Non-Fiction
1. For the Time Being, by Dirk Bogarde (Viking) 2. Superstars of the World Cup, by Jon Palmer (Parragon) 3. The Surgeon of Crowthorne, by Simon Winchester (Viking) 4. C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too, by John Diamond (Vermillion) 5. Delia Smith's Summer Collection (BBC)
Paperback Fiction
1. The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy (Flamingo) 2. Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan (Vintage) 3. A Dark Devotion, by Clare Francis (Pan) 4. Unnatural Exposure, by Patricia D. Cornwell (Warner) 5. Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding (Picador)
Paperback Non-Fiction
1. Longitude, by Dava Sobel (Fourth Estate) 2. The Little Book of Calm, by Paul Wilson (Penguin) 3. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, by John Gray (Thorsens) 4. Complete Theory Test (Cars and Motorcycles) (DSA) 5. Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt (Flamingo)
Bookwatch, London