Best-sellers in N.Z.
The best-selling book titles during August. This list is compiled by the ; Booksellers’ Association from figures supplied by a sample of bookshops throughout New Zealand. P^PER B A CKS 1. Rage (-) Wilbur Smith. (Pan). 2. Garden of Shadows (3) Virginia Andrews. (Fontana). 3. Guardians of the West (1) David Eddings. (Corgi). 4. The Parson’s Daughter (4) Catherine Cookson. (Corgi). 5. The Autobiography of Henry VIII (5) Margaret George. (Pan). 6. Winter (-) Len Deighton. (Grafton). 7. Are You Lonesome Tonight? (-) Lucy de Barbin and Dary Matera. (Arrow). 8. The Radiant Way (-) Margaret Drabble. (Penguin). 9. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (2) Douglas Adams. (Pan). 10. Peace on Earth (7) Gordon Stevens. (Coronet). HARDBACKS 1. The Weeping and the laughter (-) Noel Barber. (Hodder and Stoughton). 2. Jenny Kee Winter Knits (3) Jenny Kee. (Simon and Schuster). 3. The Icarus Agenda (1) Robert Ludlum. (Grafton). 4. Rock Star (10) Jackie Collins. (Heinemann). 5. The Greenpeace Book of Antarctica (6) John May. (Macdonald). 6. Wallis: Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor (-) Charles Higham. (Sidgwick and Jackson). 7. Moonwalk (-) Michael Jackson. (William Heinemann). 8. The Scented Room (8) Barbara Milo Ohrbach. (Potter). 9. Malcolm Hillier’s Guide to Arranging Dried Flowers (5) Malcolm Hillier. (Simon and Schuster). 10. What’s Next? (9) Paul Erdman. (Doubleday). NEW ZEALAND 1. The Treaty of Waitangi (4) Claudia Orange. (Allen and Unwin). 2. Alison Hoist’s Cooking Class Book 111 (1) Alison Holst. (Beckett). 3. Wild South (-) Rod Morris and Hal Smith. (TVNZ with Century Hutchinson). 4. Black Magic (-) Graham Hutchins. (Moa). 5. Reader’s Digest Guide to New Zealand (2) Maurice Shadbolt and Brian Brake. (Collins). 6. Oracles and Miracles (5) Stevan Eldred-Grigg. (Penguin). 7. The Totorore Voyage (-) Gerry Clark. (Century Hutchinson) 8. Alison Hoist’s New Microwave Cookbook (3) Alison Holst. (Beckett). 9. Katherine Mansfield: The Woman and The Writer (9) Gillian Boddy. (Penguin). 10. High Flying Kiwis: 100 Heroes of New Zealand Sport (-) Mark, Taylor. (The Sporting Press). (Figures in brackets show position on previous month’s list.)
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