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1 An Equal Music Vikram Seth/Phoenix House pounds 16.99
Emotional crises in a string quartet
2 The Whole Woman Germaine Greer/Doubleday pounds 16.99
Trumping the young hussies
3 Ground Beneath her Feet Salman Rushdie/Cape pounds 18.00
Orpheus and Eurydice in the hit parade
4 Business At The Speed Of Thought pounds 18.99
Bill Gates/Penguin
12 steps to digital success
5 Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 1999 pounds 28.00
Ed M Engel/J Wisden
Essential stats on cricket bats
6 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon pounds 12.99
Stephen King/Hodder
Lost in the woods with only a radio for comfort
7 Monsoon Wilbur Smith/Macmillan pounds 17.99
Historical seafaring saga
8 Others James Herbert/Macmillan pounds 16.99
Damned soul released from hell on a mission
9 Bruce Chatwin Nicholas Shakespeare/Harvill pounds 20.00
Doorstopper biog for a slender oeuvre
10 Positively Final Appearance pounds 16.99
Alec Guinness/H Hamilton
More delightful memoirs
UK Films
THIS LAST WEEKS IN GROSS
WEEK WEEK CHART TO 11 APRIL
1 (1) The Rugrats Movie 3 pounds 8,899,463
Animation with those nasty surburban toddlers
2 (-) The Faculty New pounds 894,161
`Invasion of the Bodysnatchers' in US high school
3 (4) Waking Ned 4 pounds 4,432,909
Two Irishmen think it should be them
4 (2) Plunkett And Macleane 2 pounds 1,760,350
Frolics, frills and fops
5 (6) Mighty Joe Young 3 pounds 2,721,895
Is this gorilla the new King Kong?
6 (3) Payback 3 pounds 3,447,196
Mel Gibson's ultraviolent remake of `Point Blank'
7 (-) A Civil Action New pounds 332,872
More neurotic insects
8 (5) Shakespeare In Love 11 pounds 18,632,213
The Bard makes it big again
9 (7) A Bug's Life 10 pounds 28,411,009
More neurotic insects
10 (8) Blast From The Past 2 pounds 732,720
Cold war romantic comedy
Singles
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1 (-) Perfect Moments Martine McCutcheon
2 (1) Flat Beat Mr Oizo
3 (2) My Name Is Eminem
4 (3) Turn Around Phats & Small
5 (4) Thank Abba For The Music Various Artists
6 (5) Witch Doctor Cartoons
7 (6) Baby One More Time Britney Spears
8 (13) No Scrubs TLC
9 (8) You Get What You Give New Radicals
10 (-) Taboo Glamma Kid feat.
Shola Ama
Albums
THIS LAST
WEEK WEEK
1 (8) Gold - Greatest Hits Abba
2 (1) Talk On Corners The Corrs
3 (2) Forgiven, Not Forgotten The Corrs
4 (-) The Middle Of Nowhere Orbital
5 (3) Performance and Cocktails Stereophonics
6 (4) Baby One More Time Britney Spears
7 (6) Step One Steps
8 (5) I've Been Expecting You Robbie Williams
9 (9) You've Come A Long Way... Fat Boy Slim
10 (10) Gran Turismo The Cardigans
Paperbacks
1 About A Boy Nick Hornby/Indigo pounds 6.99
Feckless male makes friends with fatherless lad
2 Internet: Rough Guide pounds 5.99
Angus J Kennedy/Rough Guides
The unspoilt beaches of cyberspace
3 Master Georgie Beryl Bainbridge/Abacus pounds 6.99
Weirdness abounds during Crimean war
4 Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler/Vintage pounds 6.99
Feelgood family fiction
5 Once, In A House On Fire pounds 6.99
Andrea Ashworth/Picador
She survived abuse! She's very pretty!
6 Archangel Robert Harris/Hutchinson pounds 10
Dozy academic stumbles on Stalin's secrets
7 Captain Corelli's Mandolin pounds 6.99
Louis De Bernieres/Vintage
He's delighted us long enough
8 The Travelling Horn Player pounds 6.99
Barbara Trapido/Penguin
Families bereft and eccentric interlock to intriguing effect
9 Birthday Letters Ted Hughes/Faber pounds 7.99
The last word goes to Ted
10 Memoirs Of A Geisha pounds 6.99
Frank Arthur Golden/Vintage Male spy in the house of love
US Films
THIS LAST WEEKS IN GROSS
WEEK WEEK CHART TO 4 APR
1 (1) The Matrix 2 $73,310,417
Sci-fi special effects saga with Keanu Reeves
2 (-) Never Been Kissed New $11,836,707
Drew Barrymore goes back to school and has bad hair
3 (2) 10 Things I Hate About You 2 $20,431,363
A dumbed-down 'Taming Of The Shrew'
4 (3) The Out Of Towners 2 $16,203,092
Goldie Hawn comes over all giddy. Again
5 (4) Analyze This 6 $85,848,183
Robert De Niro hams it up in a criminally funny comedy
6 (-) Go New $4,706,795
New comedy crime caper from director of `Swingers'
7 (5) Forces Of Nature 4 $42,393,313
Sandra Bullock pouts in romantic comedy
8 (-) Twin Dragons New $2,829,990
Jackie Chan plus Jackie Chan. What an original formula
9 (8) Doug's 1st Movie 3 $14,018,000
TV spin-off teenage angst
10 (-) Foolish New $2,184,633
Comedy vehicle for gangsta rapper Master P
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