Best-sellers in N.Z.
The best-selling book titles during September. This list is compiled by the Booksellers’ Association from figures supplied by a sample of bookshops throughout New Zealand. PAPERBACKS 1. A Twist in the Tale (1) Jeffrey Archer. (Coronet). 2. Treasure (7) Clive Cussler. (Grafton). 3. Peking (8) Anthony Grey. (Pan). 4. King of the Murgos (-) David Eddings. (Corgi). 5. Holidays in Hell (2) P. J. O’Rourke. (Picador). 6. Riding the Iron Rooster (-) Paul Theroux. (Penguin). 7. Stark (4) Ben Elton. (Sphere). 8. The Eight (4) Katherine Neville. (Headline). 9. The Bonfire of the Vanities (5) Tom Wolfe. (Picador). 10. Fallen Hearts (-) Virginia Andrews. (Fontana). HARDBACKS 1. A Time to Die (1) Wilbur Smith. (Heinemann). 2. The Russia House (6) John le Carre. (Hodder and Stoughton). 3. A Brief History of Time (3) Stephen Hawking. (Bantam Press). 4. Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation (5) Shirley MacLaine. (Bantam). 5. The Cloning of Joanna May (-) Fay Weldon. (Collins). 6. Cat’s Eye (4) Margaret Atwood. (Bloomsbury). 7. A Prayer For Owen Meany (2) John Irving. (Bloomsbury). 8. Philby: The Life and Views of the K.G.B. Masterspy (8) Phillip Knightley. (Andre Deutsch). 9. The Satanic Verses (9) Salman Rushdie. (Viking). 10. Love and Marriage (10) Bill Cosby. (Doubleday). NEW ZEALAND 1. The Game For All New Zealand. Through the lens of Peter Bush (5). (Moa Publications TVNZ). 2. Bullock Creek (1) Barry Crump. (Barry Crump Associates). 3. Wimp Walloping (2) Bob Jones. (Inprint). 4. A Woman’s Life: Writing by Women about Female Experience in New Zealand (10) Edited by Anne Else and Heather Roberts. (Penguin). 5. Famous Fullbacks (-) Joseph Romanos. (Rugby Press). 6. Making Money Made Simple! (4) Noel Whittaker. (Beckett). 7. Mark My Words: The Mark Graham Story (7). The Sporting Press). 8. Hairy Maclary’s Rumpus at the Vet (-) Lynley Dodd. (Mallinson Rendel). 9 I Shall Not Die: Titokowaru’s War, New Zealand, 1868-1869 (8) James Belich. (Allen and Unwin). , 10. Sylvia! the Biography of Sylvia Ashton-Warner (9) Lynley Hood. (Viking). (Figures in brackets show position on previous month’s list.)
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