Best-sellers in N.Z.
The best-selling book titles during June. This list is compiled by the Booksellers’ Association from figures supplied by a sample of bookshops throughout New Zealand. PAPERBACKS 1. The Bonfire of the Vanities (2) Tom Wolfe. (Picador). 2. To Be The Best (1) Barbara Taylor Bradford. (Grafton Books). 3. Rivals (-) Jilly Cooper. (Corgi). 4. Stark (-) Ben Elton. (Sphere). 5. Holidays in Hell (-) P. J. O’Rourke. (Picador). 6. Dr Ruth’s Guide to Sex (5) Dr Ruth Westheimer. (Bantam/ Schwartz). ,7. Daddy (6) Loup Durand. (Muller). 8. Patriot Games (7) Tom Clancy. (Fontana). 9. Rosemary Conley’s Hip and Thigh Diet (8) Rosemary Conley. (Arrow). 10. Chaos (-) James Gleick. (Cardinal). HARDBACKS 1. Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B. Masterspy (-) Phillip Knightley. (Andre Deutsch). 2. Love and Marriage (2) Bill Cosby. (Doubleday). 3. Cat’s Eye (8) Margaret Atwood. (Bloomsbury). 4. A Brief History of Time (9) Stephen Hawking. (Bantam Press). 5. A Prayer For Owen Meany (-) John Irving. (Bloomsbury). 6. The Satanic Verses (4) Salman Rushdie. (Viking). 7. The Complete Phantom of the Opera (7) George Perry. (Pavilion). 8. The Cardinal and the Kremlin (1) Tom Clancy. (Collins). 9. A Time to Die (-) Wilbur Smith. (Heineman). 10. Fallen Hearts (5) Virginia Andrews. (Collins). NEW ZEALAND BOOKS 1. Making Money Made Simple! (1) Noel Whittaker. (Beckett). 2. Hot October — an autobiographical story (3) Lauris Edmond. (Allen and Unwin). 3. Waitangi: Maori and Pakeha Perspectives of the Treaty of Waitangi (4) I. H. Kawharu (Ed.). (0.U.P.). 4. Wimp Walloping (-) Bob Jones. (Inprint). 5. Alison Hoist’s Microwave Menus (2) Alison Holst. (C.J. Publishing). 6. I Shall Not Die: Titokowaru’s War, New Zealand, 1868-1869 (-) James Belich. (Allen and Unwin). 7. Wild South (-) Rod Morris and Hal Smith. (TVNZ Century Hutchinson). 8. I think we should go into the jungle (-) Barbara Anderson. (V.U.P.). 9. Fatal Success: A History of the New Zealand Company (10) Patricia Burns. Henry Richardson (Ed.). (Heinemann Reed). 10. Here’s Health At Any Age (5) Eileen Evans. (Penguin). (Figures in brackets show position on previous month’s list)
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