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1 Hannibal Thomas Harris/Heinemann pounds 16.99
Harry Potter for grown-ups
2 Losing Nelson Barry Unsworth/Hamish Hamilton pounds 15.99
Terrifying naval set-pieces in rich fictional study of a hero
3 Death du Jour Kathy Reichs/Heinemann pounds 10
More slice and dice than Jamie Oliver
4 Star Wars: Episode One David Reynolds/D Kindersley pounds 12.99
The sets! The outfits! The silly names!
5 The Naked Chef Jamie Oliver/M Joseph pounds 18.99
He's young, daft and Estuarian, but his cooking's pukka
6 Star Wars: Episode One Dorling Kindersley pounds 12.99
The one with spaceship cross-sections
7 Catastrophe David Keys/Century pounds 16.99
Giant explosion leads to the rise of Islam (see review, opposite)
8 In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner Eliz. George/Hodder pounds 16.99
Two bodies found in a stone circle in the Peak District
9 The Science of Discworld Terry Pratchett etc/Ebury pounds 14.99
Set text at the Unseen University
10 Full Moon Michael Light/Cape pounds 35
To the moon and back courtesy of Nasa
Paperbacks
1 Charlotte Gray Sebastian Faulks/Vintage pounds 6.99
SOE shenanigans in perfect period underwear
2 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire A Foreman/Flamingo pounds 8.99
That irrepressible Spencer woman
3 About a Boy Nick Hornby/Indigo pounds 6.99
Feckless male makes friends with fatherless lad
4 A Widow for One Year John Irving/Black Swan pounds 7.99
Bereaved female novelist at three stages of her life
5 Amsterdam Ian McEwan/Vintage pounds 6.99
Over-schematic moral fable
6 Another World Pat Barker/Penguin pounds 6.99
Magnificent, subtle ghost story with WWI flashbacks
7 The Tesseract Alex Garland/Penguin pounds 6.99
Four complex, interlocking tales set in the Philippines
8 The Loop Nicholas Evans/Corgi pounds 5.99
The wolf whisperer
9 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres/Vintage pounds 6.99
Finds favour with everyone except the Morning Star
10 Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler/Vintage pounds 6.99
Divorced dad finds redemption
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