/ 23 December 1997

The year’s bestsellers

EXCLUSIVE BOOKS

1 What it Really Takes to be World Class by Clem Sunter (Human & Rousseau/Tafelberg)

2 Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt (Flamingo)

3 Madams Are from Mars, Maids Are from Venus by Francis, Dugmore and Rico (Penguin)

4 John Platter’s Guide to South African Wines 1998 =0B(John Platter)

5 Hansie and the Boys by Rodney Hartman (Zebra)

6 Survival of the Fittest by Jonathan Kellerman (Little, Brown)

7 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Flamingo)

8 Into the Heart of Darkness by Jacques Pauw (Jonathan Ball)

9 Kitch: Triumph of a Decent Man by Edward Griffiths (CAB)

10 In the Words of Nelson Mandela edited by Jennifer Crwys-Williams (Penguin)

FACTS & FICTION

1 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (Chatto & Windus)

2 Blood Money by Tom Bower (Pan)

3 A Certain Justice by PD James (Faber & Faber)

4 Heartland by Jann Turner (Orion)

5 Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt (Flamingo)

6 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Flamingo)

7 The Roald Dahl Treasury by Roald Dahl (Jonathan Cape)

8 Boyhood by JM Coetzee (Secker & Warburg)

9 The Telling of Angus Quain by Jenny Hobbs (Jonathan Ball)

10 Madams Are from Mars, Maids Are from Venus by Francis, Dugmore & Rico (Penguin)

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1 Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

2 Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

3 The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea =0Bby Sebastian Junger

4 Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

5 Creating Killer Web Sites: The Art of Third-Generation Site Design by David S Siegel

6 Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris

7 Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R Tufte

8 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R Tufte

9 Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi

10 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

11 The Motley Fool Investment Guide: How the Fool Beats Wall Street’s Wise Men and How You Can Too by David Gardner

12 Net Gain: Expanding Markets through Virtual Communities by John Hagel and Arthur Armstrong

13 The Partner by John Grisham

14 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B Cialdini

15 Eight Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body’s Natural Healing Power by Andrew Weil