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1 Managing My Life Alex Ferguson/Hodder pounds 18.99
The bung not taken
2 The Business Iain Banks/Little, Brown pounds 16.99
Hip cultural references in heavy-handed satire
3 Hannibal Thomas Harris/Heinemann pounds 16.99
Harry Potter for grown-ups
4 How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Mark Collier & Bill Manley/British Museum Press pounds 9.99
Set text at Hogwarts Academy
5 Year 1000 Robert Lacey/Little, Brown pounds 12.99
How the English lived at the first millennium
6 Death du Jour Kathy Reichs/Heinemann pounds 10
More slice and dice than Jamie Oliver
7 Losing Nelson Barry Unsworth/Hamish Hamilton pounds 15.99
Satisfying, complex take on a British hero
8 Courtney: Heart of the Lion Courtney Walsh/Lancaster pounds 18.99
Cricketer's story
9 The Naked Chef Jamie Oliver/M Joseph pounds 18.99
He's young, daft and Estuarian, but his cooking's pukka
10 Star Wars: Episode One David Reynolds/D Kindersley pounds 12.99
The sets! The outfits! The silly names!
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
Another 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 Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler/Vintage pounds 6.99
Divorced dad seeks redemption
7 Once In a House On Fire Andrea Ashworth/Picador pounds 6.99
Memoir of an impoverished childhood marred by violent stepfathers
8 The Beach Alex Garland/Penguin pounds 6.99
Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water
9 The Loop Nicholas Evans/Corgi pounds 5.99
The wolf whisperer
10 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres/Vintage pounds 6.99
Fascists are nasty (except when they're colourful and Italian)
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