PAPERBACK FICTION 1 (-) The Sea by John Banville, Picador (946) (1,718) 2 (1) Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs, Arrow (895) (3,134) 3 (2) One Shot by Lee Child, Bantam (790) (2,064) 4 (-) Predator by Patricia Cornwell, Time Warner (681) (681) 5(-) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, Corgi (680) (209,785)
ORIGINAL FICTION 1(1) Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes, Poolbeg (1,105) (3,295) 2(2) Divided Loyalties by Patricia Scanlan, Bantam (653) (9,948) 3 (3) Connections by Sheila O'Flanagan, Hodder Headline Ireland (351) (7,023) 4 (4) False Impression by Jeffrey Archer, Macmillan (326) (1,714) 5 (-) Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, Chatto & Windus (258) (979)
PAPERBACK NON FICTION 1 (-) The Choice: The Programme by Bernadette Bohan, Thorsons (363) (363) 2 (-) Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and S Dubner (272) (298) 3 (1) Golden Apples: From Market Stall to Millionaire by Bill Cullen, Hodder (223) (1,530) 4 (2) In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Penguin (215) (2,295) 5 (-) Don't Wake Me Up At Doyles by Maura Murphy, Hodder Headline Ireland (211) (16,207)
HARDBACK NON FICTION 1 (1) Memoir by John McGahern, Faber & Faber (999) (21,255) 2 (2) District And Circle by Seamus Heaney, Faber & Faber (906) (1,245) 3 (3) The Pope's Children by David McWilliams, Gill & Macmillan (233) (26,813) 4 (-) DIY: Know-How with Show-How by Peter Parham & Julia Cassell, Dorling Kindersley (167) (269) 5 (-) Beckett Remembering:
Remembering Beckett by James Knowlson, Bloomsbury (123) (338) SPORTS BOOKS 1 (2) Roy Keane: Red Man Walking by Frank Worrall, Mainstream (137) (387) 2 (1) In Full Flood by Finbarr Flood, Liberties Press (89) (456) 3(-) The Nation Holds Its Breath by Eoghan Corry, Hodder Headline Ireland (45) (74) 4 (-) The Penguin Ireland Guide to Championship by Damian Cullen, Penguin Ireland (42) (44) 5 (-) It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong (35) (10.637)
CHILDREN'S BOOKS 1(1) The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne, John Fickling Books (835) (5,267) 2 (-) Evil Star: Power of Five by Anthony Horowitz, Walker Books (370) (499) 3 (2) Dublin: Horrible Histories by Terry Deary (278) (3,858) 4 (3) Candyfloss by Jacqueline Wilson, Doubleday (225) (2,154) 5 (-) Lauren the Puppy Fairy by Daisy Meadows, Orchard Books (101) (101) Data is supplied by Nielsen BookScan.
Taken from the Irish Consumer Market.
Figures relate to books sold for week ending 08 April 2006. Sales figures in brackets refer to the weekly and then the cumulative sales John Banville's novel ?The Sea', which won the 2005 Booker award, is now available in paperback and has gone straight to number one, selling 946 copies.
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