Britain
Paperback Fiction
1. The Partner, by John Grisham (Century)
2. Rachel's Holiday, by Marian Keyes (Poolbeg)
3. Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding (Picador)
4. Hornet's Nest, by Patricia Cornwell (Warner)
5. Silent Witness, by Richard North Patterson (Arrow)
Paperback Non-Fiction
1. Little Book of Calm, by Paul Wilson (Penguin)
2. Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt (HarperCollins)
3. Woman of Aran, by Bridget Dirrane (Blackwater)
4. Family Finance 1998, by Colm Rapple (Squirrel Press)
5. The Dark Side of Camelot, by Seymour Hersh (HarperCollins)
Hardback Fiction
1. Deja Dead, by Kathy Reichs (Heinemann)
2. Underworld, by Don DeLillo (Picador)
3. Mirror, Mirror, by Patricia Scanlan (Poolbeg)
4. This Side of Brightness, by Colum McCann (Phoenix House)
5. The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy (Flamingo)
Hardback Non-Fiction
1. Anam Cara, by John O'Donoghue (Bantam Press)
2. Father Browne's Titanic Album, by E.F. O'Donnell (Wolfhound)
3. Birthday Letters, by Ted Hughes (Faber & Faber)
4. Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape, by Aalen, Whelan and Stout (Cork)
5. Year of Liberty: The Great Irish Rebellion of 1798, by Thomas Pakenham (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Children's
1. Irish Legends for children, retold by Yvonne Carroll (Gill & N Macmaillan)
2. Enchanted Journeys, ed. Robert dunbar (O'Brien Press)
3. Alfie's Feet, by Shirley Hughes (Hutchinson)
4. Roald Dahl Treasury (Cape)
5. The Best of Dr Seuss (Collins)
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Hardback Fiction
1. Deja Dead, by Kathy Reichs (Heinemann)
2. Underworld, by Don DeLillo (Picador)
3. Cat and Mouse, by James Patterson (Headline)
4. The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy (Flamingo)
5. The Sisterhood, by Colin Forbes (Macmillan)
Hardback Non-Fiction
1. Birthday Letters, by Ted Hughes (Faber)
2. Travels with a Hot Wok, by Ken Hom (BBC)
3. Over Here, by Raymond Seitz (WEeidenfeld)
4. A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson (Doubleday)
5. A Kentish Lad, by Frank Muir (Bantam Press)
Bookwatch, London