Bestsellers

Original Fiction

Original Fiction

1. Far From Over, by Sheila O'Flanagan (Headline) 2. Inishowen, by Joseph O'Connor (Secker & Warburg) 3. The Honeymoon, by Amy Jenkins (Flame) 4. Sharpe's Trafalgar, by Bernard Cornwell (HarperCollins) 5. The Running Mate, by Joe Klein (Chatto & Windus)

Hardback Non-Fiction

1. In the Heart of the Sea, by Nathaniel Philbrick (HarperCollins) 2. Return of the Naked Chief, by Jamie Oliver (Michael Joseph) 3. Homebond House Building Manual, by Farrell, McCarthy and McFeely (NHB) 4. The Consolations of Philosophy, by Alain de Botton (Hamish Hamilton) 5. Beowulf, by Seamus Heaney (Faber)

Booksellers Association, Irish Branch

Original Fiction

1. The Wedding, by Danielle Steel (Bantam) 2. Sharpe's Trafalgar, by Bernard Cornwell (HarperCollins) 3. The Brethren, by John Grisham (Century) 4. Anil's Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje (Bloomsbury) 5. Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason, by Helen Fielding (Picador)

Hardback Non-Fiction

1. Return of the Naked Chief, by Jamie Oliver (Michael Joseph) 2. Delia's How to Cook, Book 2, by Delia Smith (BBC) 3. The Bodyguard's Story, by Trevor Rees Jones (Little Brown) 4. The Consolations of Philosophy, by Alain de Botton (Hamish Hamilton) 5. Delia's How to Cook: Book 1, by Delia Smith (BBC)

Compiled by Bookwatch from data supplied by Whitaker BookTrack

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