1 Ugly/Constance Briscoe
(Hodder £12.99)
How one of the UK’s first black women judges survived childhood abuse
8,170 (8,700)
2 Extreme: My Autobiography/Sharon Osbourne
(Time Warner £18.99)
Memoir of a colourful life as a rock daughter, wife and manager
6,395 (635,875)
3 Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?
Steve Lowe & Alan McArthur
(Time Warner £9.99)
Comic rant at our consumer society
6,090 (202,905)
4 Untold Stories/Alan Bennett
(Faber/Profile £20)
Brilliant anthology of prose from the playwright, with personal revelations
4,245 (314,785)
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5 Next to You/Gloria Hunniford
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Broadcaster’s account of her daughter’s losing battle against cancer
4,150 (463,875)
6 Talk to the Hand/Lynne Truss
(Profile £9.99)
Campaigning author turns her attention from bad grammar to bad manners
3,250 (230,290)
7 Balderdash & Piffle/Alex Games
(BBC £12.99)
Companion volume to television series that investigates the origins of words
2,665 (8,830)
8 Margrave of the Marshes/John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft
(Bantam Press £18.99)
Life of the late DJ, finished by his wife
2,450 (301,255)
9 If I Don’t Write It, Nobody Else Will/Eric Sykes
(Fourth Estate £18.99)
Aptly titled autobiography of the comedy performer and writer
1,765 (92,490)
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10 Schott’s Almanac/Ben Schott
(Bloomsbury £15)
Book of lists from the past year by author of the famous miscellanies
1,585 (119,615)
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HARDBACKS: Fiction
1 Emperor: The Gods of War/Conn Iggulden
(HarperCollins £12.99)
Julius Caesar’s days are numbered in concluding volume of series
4,990 (26,885)
2 Vanish/Tess Gerritsen
(Bantam Press £12.99)
Pregnant homicide detective is caught up in a hostage crisis
3,825 (6,815)
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3 Predator/Patricia Cornwell
(Little, Brown £17.99)
Kay Scarpetta tracks a sex killer who is watching her every move
2,990 (214,780)
4 Keeping Faith/Jodi Picoult
(Hodder £12.99)
Mother and daughter with miraculous powers are caught in a media circus
2,595 (3,180)
5 Seven Ancient Wonders/Matthew Reilly
(Macmillan £12.99)
Adventurers compete to locate powerful relic of the ancient world
2,455 (8,785)
6 Death Dance/Linda Fairstein
(Little, Brown £12.99)
Disappearance of world-famous dancer sets frantic search in motion
2,135 (4,510)
7 The Camel Club/David Baldacci
(Macmillan £12.99)
Conspiracy theorists witness murder of a Washington analyst
2,005 (5,135)
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8 The Lighthouse/PD James
(Faber £17.99)
Dalgliesh is called in to investigate a murder at a Cornish island retreat
1,985 (91,635)
9 The Matchbreaker/Chris Manby
(Hodder £10)
Widowed father’s intention to remarry provokes daughter into drastic action
1,410 (5,250)
10 Aggressor/Andy McNab
(Bantam Press £17.99)
Nick Stone is stung back intoaction by a terrorist atrocity
1,365 (131,625)
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1 The World According to Clarkson/Jeremy Clarkson
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Sunday Times columnist expounds his views on his favourite things
12,230 (881,755)
2 I Choose to Live/Sabine Dardenne
(Virago £6.99)
Harrowing ordeal of the Belgian girl abducted by a paedophile
11,875 (16,275)
3 Just One More Day/Susan Lewis
(Arrow £6.99)
Novelist with a memoir of her difficult childhood in 1960s Bristol
8,535 (29,500)
4 Does Anything Eat Wasps?
(Profile £7.99)
Anthology of questions and answers from pages of New Scientist
8,495 (241,575)
5 Moondust/Andrew Smith
(Bloomsbury £8.99)
Views of the nine remaining astronauts to have walked on the moon
5,655 (11,525)
6 A Brother’s Journey/Richard B Pelzer
(Time Warner £6.99)
Dave’s younger brother tells his side of the story of childhood cruelty
5,225 (74,420)
7 Heartland/Neil Cross
(Scribner £7.99)
Tale of a troubled upbringing coloured by an evil stepfather
5,210 (8,930)
8 The Little Prisoner/Jane Elliott
(Harper Element £6.99)
Story of a girl abused from the age of four by her stepfather
4,895 (266,255)
9 Being Jordan/Katie Price
(John Blake £7.99)
The life and loves of the tabloids’ favourite glamour model
3,570 (242,325)
10 On the Run/Gregg and Gina Hill
(Arrow £6.99)
Children of a mafia informant with their story of a life spent in hiding
3,065 (103,330)
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PAPERBACKS: Fiction
1 The Undomestic Goddess/Sophie Kinsella
(Black Swan £6.99)
City lawyer adjusts to a new life as a housekeeper in the country
32,295 (125,340)
2 Saturday/Ian McEwan
(Vintage £7.99)
A day in the life of a neurosurgeon as anti-war demonstrators gather in London
31,620 (90,530)
3 A Lesser Evil/Lesley Pearse
(Penguin £6.99)
Young woman elopes to London to find life not quite what she expected
24,020 (32,870)
4 Body Double/Tess Gerritsen
(Bantam £6.99)
Doctor Maura Isles searches for the identity of her dead doppelgänger
23,645 (35,595)
5 Labyrinth/Kate Mosse
(Orion £7.99)
Unearthing of two skeletons sparks Grail adventure in southern France
22,600 (41,080)
6 The Broker/John Grisham
(Arrow £6.99)
Pardoned presidential adviser seeks to establish new identity in Italy
21,360 (546,855)
7 Memoirs of a Geisha/Arthur Golden
(Vintage £6.99)
New film tie-in edition of the novel detailing secrets of Japanese culture
18,880 (53,850)
8 The Da Vinci Code/Dan Brown
(Corgi £6.99)
Harvard professor must decipher the clues to a Louvre curator’s murder
16,750 (3,910,395)
9 Velocity/Dean Koontz
(HarperCollins £6.99)
Man is forced to choose the next victims of a serial killer
16,320 (58,775)
10 Dead Simple/Peter James
(Pan £6.99)
Groom disappears after stag night during which his four best friends are murdered
12,860 (18,570)