1 Guinness World Records 2007
(Guinness £18)
Latest edition of the bible of facts and incredible feats from around the globe
333,180 (333,180)

2 Cook with Jamie/Jamie Oliver
(M Joseph £26)
Practical advice based on the training given at the chef’s Fifteen restaurants
272,455 (272,455)

3 Gordon Ramsay’s Sunday Lunch/Gordon Ramsay
(Quadrille £19.99)
Outspoken chef cooks up more treats for friends and family at the weekends
168,450 (168,450)

4 That Extra Half an Inch/Victoria Beckham
(M Joseph £20)
Fashion tips from the ex-Spice Girl and wife of the former England captain
112,370 (112,370)

5 Jamie’s Italy/Jamie Oliver
(M Joseph £20)
The campaigning cook revisits the cuisine that first inspired him
78,690 (813,890)

6 Match! Annual 2007
(Boxtree £6.99)
A feast of football information in the annual from the ever-popular magazine
76,150 (76,150)

7 Annabel Karmel’s New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner/Annabel Karmel
(Ebury £12.99)
Culinary advice for conscientious parents
47,865 (140,885)

8 The Kitchen Diaries/Nigel Slater (Fourth Estate £25)
A year’s worth of recipes from the home table of the food writer
47,190 (160,475)

9 Trinny & Susannah: The Survival Guide/Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine
(Weidenfeld £20)
More tips from the makeover queens
44,625 (44,625)

10 The Gardener’s Year/Alan Titchmarsh
(BBC £20)
Television expert-cum-novelist with some seasonal advice for the green-fingered
39,645 (70,385)

PAPERBACKS: GUIDES AND MANUALS

1 Instant Confidence/Paul McKenna
(Bantam Press £10.99)
Therapy on how to programme your mind and master your emotions
169,495 (169,495)

2 I Can Make You Thin/Paul McKenna
(Bantam Press £10.99)
Motivational tips for weight loss from the celebrity guru
151,790 (526,805)

3 Dr Gillian McKeith’s Ultimate Health Plan
Gillian McKeith
(M Joseph £14.99)
More nutritional guidance from You Are What You Eat host
109,960 (118,450)

4 Rosemary Conley’s GI Jeans Diet/Rosemary Conley
(Arrow £6.99)
Slimming expert with a plan based on the popular glycemic index
96,285 (108,330)

5 The Rules of Life/Richard Templar
(Pearson Education £9.99)
How to achieve a happier existence by following a new rule every day
84,165 (86,225)

6 Change Your Life in Seven Days/Paul McKenna
(Bantam Press £10.99)
Television hypnotist’s earlier guide to personal transformation
76,605 (421,410)

7 Easy Way to Stop Smoking/Allen Carr
(Penguin £8.99)
Advice on how to kick the evil weed from the recently departed doctor
73,505* (452,415*)

8 The Diet Doctors Inside and Out
Wendy Denning and Vicki Edgson
(Vermilion £12.99)
Latest television makeover duo with a book
72,170 (73,285)

9 You Are What You Eat: The Meal Planner That Will Change Your Life
(Virgin £12.99)
Official tie-in to the latest series of the popular Channel 4 show
60,500 (60,500)

10 Doctor Who: Aliens and Enemies/Justin Richards
(BBC £7.99)
Fully illustrated guide to the baddies in the rejuvenated Saturday-night series
54,380 (54,380)

HARDBACKS: CHILDREN'S

1 Doctor Who: The Official Annual
(Penguin £6.99)
Character profiles, activities and fun facts for young fans of the BBC series.
203,565 (203,565)

2 Candyfloss/Jacqueline Wilson
(Doubleday £12.99)
Girl is faced with a dilemma when her stepfather gets a job in Australia
172,865 (172,865)

3 The End/Lemony Snicket
(Egmont £6.99)
Thirteenth and concluding book in A Series of Unfortunate Events
166,080 (166,080)

4 Wintersmith/Terry Pratchett
(Doubleday £14.99)
Another science-fiction instalment featuring trainee witch Tiffany Aching
136,380 (136,380)

5 The Beano Annual 2007
(DC Thomson £7.25)
Dennis the Menace and friends return with more comic escapades
132,230 (132,230)

6 Starring Tracy Beaker/Jacqueline Wilson
(Doubleday £12.99)
Tracy gets to play Scrooge in the school production of A Christmas Carol
92,025 (92,025)

7 The Very Hungry Caterpillar/Eric Carle
(H Hamilton £5.99)
Classic picture book proving popular with a new generation of children
81,470 (465,675)

8 Bratz Annual 2007
(Pedigree £7.99)
All you need to know about the girls with an inexhaustible passion for fashion
78,100 (78,100)

9 Doctor Who: The Stone Rose/Jacqueline Rayner
(BBC £6.99)
Novelisation of a Time Lord adventure featuring his latest lovely assistant
66,240 (66,240)

10 Disney Pixar Annual 2007
(Egmont £6.99)
Features and fun from the film studio that produced a hit this year with Cars
65,425 (65,425)

PAPERBACKS: CHILDREN'S

1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince/JK Rowling
(Bloomsbury £7.99)
Escalating feud with Voldemort leads to a death; paperback edition 2229,910* (229,910*)

2 Hannah the Happy Ever After Fairy/Daisy Meadows
(Orchard £1)
The fairies take action after Jack Frost steals the magic Quill Pen from Fairyland
185,585 (185,585)

3 Here Comes Harry with his Bucketful of Dinosaurs
Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds
(Puffin £1)
World Book Day edition plus sing-along story
153,370 (153,370)

4 Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend/Francesca Simon
(Orion £4.99)
Henry tries by any means, fair or foul, to beat Moody Margaret at football
152,650 (152,650)

5 Stormbreaker/Anthony Horowitz
(Walker £6.99)
The first spy caper for Alex Rider, seen on the silver screen this year
138,940* (258,860*)

6 Koyasan/Darren Shan
(HarperCollins £1)
Girl manages to conquer her fears and enter the world of the graveyard
129,810 (129,810)

7 How to Train Your Viking by Toothless the Dragon
Cressida Cowell
(Hodder £1)
Further adventures of the heroic Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
127,855 (127,855)

8 The Mum Surprise/Gwyneth Rees
(Macmillan £1)
Girl decides to bake a cake to cheer up her lovelorn teenage brother
117,650 (117,650)

9 The Stone Pilot/Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
(Corgi £1)
Special edition of the Edge Chronicles tracing the history of a trog
117,260 (117,260)

10 The Gruffalo’s Child/Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
(Macmillan £5.99)
Forest creature’s daughter ventures out
103,695 (211,340)

Lists prepared by The Bookseller using data supplied by and Copyright to Nielsen BookScan, taken from the TCM for the 48 weeks ending 02/12/06. Figures shown are estimated sales for the 48-week period followed (in brackets) by the estimated total sale. *Includes sales of more than one edition in the same format and at the same recommended retail price

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