1 Upfront and Personal
by Coleen Nolan
Last week 1 Weeks on list 3
Sales last week 8,895 To date 27,285
(Sidgwick £16.99)
Inspirational and heartfelt memoir from one of the Nolan sisters
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2 Forever In My Heart
by Jade Goody
Last week 2 Weeks on list 5
Sales last week 7,840 To date 86,745
(HarperCollins £15.99)
Goody’s diary of her fight against terminal cancer
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The Times obituary

3 The Storm
by Vincent Cable
Last week 3 Weeks on list 7
Sales last week 1,830 To date 14,835
(Atlantic £14.99)
The Lib Dem chief economic spokesman on the financial crisis
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4 Voodoo Histories
by David Aaronovitch
Last week 15 Weeks on list 1
Sales last week 1,820 To date 2,600
(Cape £17.99)
Journalist probes and explodes some of the biggest conspiracy theories
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Aaronovitch on 9/11 and 7/7

5 Planet Narnia
by Michael Ward
Last week 13 Weeks on list 1
Sales last week 1,600 To date 4,380
(OUP £16.99)
Argues that medieval cosmology influenced the CS Lewis’s Narnia novels
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6 Jelleyman's Thrown a Wobbly
by Jeff Stelling
Last week 4 Weeks on list 6
Sales last week 1,470 To date 10,815
(HarperSport £15.99)
SkySports anchorman on life in front of the videprinter
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7 The Hitman
by Bret Hart
Last week 6 Weeks on list 7
Sales last week 1,295 To date 14,690
(Ebury £16.99)
No-holds-barred account of life in the showmanship world of wrestling
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8 Far Horizons
by Frank Gardner
Last week 22 Weeks on list 1
Sales last week 1,195 To date 1,840
(Bantam £18.99)
BBC journalist on life before and after the attempt on his life in 2004
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Gardner on life in a wheelchair

9 Home to Roost
by Deborah Devonshire
New entry
Sales last week 1,180 To date 1,835
(J Murray £10)
Second volume of the youngest of the Mitford sisters’ occasional writings
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The surviving Mitford sister

10 Phoenix Squadron
by Rowland White
Last week 5 Weeks on list 7
Sales last week 1,120 To date 11,715
(Bantam Press £18.99)
HMS Ark Royal, Britain’s last Top Guns and one dramatic mission
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List prepared by The Bookseller using data supplied by and copywiright to Nielsen BookScan for the week ending 16/05/09

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