London’s Sunday Times ‘Top 10 paperbacks: fiction.’  Figures shown are estimated sales for the 7-day 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

1 :Book of the Dead

by Patricia Cornwell

Last week 1 weeks on chart 2

Last week 49,855 to date 89,175

(Sphere £7.99)

Kay Scarpetta’s dreams of a quiet life in Charleston are ruined
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2 The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris

Last week 16 weeks on chart 1

Last week 25,495 to date 32,230

(Black Swan £7.99)

Sequel to Chocolat finds Yanne Montmartre in Paris with a mysterious new friend

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3 :Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Last week 2 weeks on chart 4

Last week 20,665 to date 108,565

(Hodder £6.99)

Peace in a New Hampshire town is shattered by an horrific school shooting

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4 :The Quest by Wilbur Smith

Last week 4 weeks on chart 3

Last week 15,190 to date 73,065

(Pan £7.99)

Ancient Egyptian adventure seque lcontinuing the story of the Warlock Taita

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5 :An Absolute Scandal by Penny Vincenzi

Last week 6 weeks on chart 6

Last week 13,725 to date 151,490

(Headline Review £7.99)

A group of Lloyds names finds that fortune is not always favourable
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6 Gold Diggers by Tasmina Perry 22 1

Last week 22 weeks on chart 1

Last week 13,640 to date 21,050

(Harper £6.99)

Billionaire Adam Gold moves to London and encounters The Gold Diggers

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7 :A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Last week 5 weeks on chart 25

Last week 13,520 to date 641,780

(Bloomsbury £11.99)

Two women struggle to survive in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
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8 :Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson

Last week 3 weeks on chart 4

Last week 12,550 to date 76,555

(Hodder £6.99)

DCI Banks and DI Cabbot investigate murders that are seemingly linked

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9 :Engleby by Sebastian Faulks

Last week 9 weeks on chart 9

Last week 12,175 to date 87,230

(Vintage £7.99)

Tale, from the author of Birdsong, of an amoral graduate in the 1980s

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10 :31 Dream Street by Lisa Jewell

Last week 8 weeks on chart 8

Last week 11,890 to date 60,895

(Penguin £6.99)

Leah and Toby conspire to rid his house of misfits

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