Best Selling Books in UK

Delia's How to Cheat at Cooking - In "How to Cheat at Cooking", Delia has sourced a range of pre-prepared foods (from tins, chill cabinets, freezers and store cupboards) to help you short circuit cooking times and techniques. Readily available from supermarkets, delis, online food shops and farmers markets and of the very best quality these recipes using instant time savers will allow you to create fabulous food without the faff

New Europe - Michael Palin - Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its rich history, filming its exquisite sights and talking to its diverse peoples.

Nigella Express - Nigella Lawson - Full of wonderful, quick ideas with that typical mix of nostalgic, eclectic and delicious that you expect from Nigella. One of the appealing things about Nigellas brief introductions to each of them is that she thinks not just as a cook, but as a eater.

Jamie Oliver at Home - Jamie Oliver - This book is very close to my heart. It's about no-nonsense, simple cooking with great flavours all year round. When I began writing it, I didn't really know what recipes I would come up with, but something began to inspire me very quickly...my vegetable patch!

Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell - Cranford is the best known and most charming of Elizabeth Gaskells novels. It is a comic portrait of an early Victorian country village and its genteel inhabitants, mostly women, whose social attitudes remain firmly unchanging against the modernising world, and whose domestic details dominate conversation.

Thousand Splendid Sins - Khaled Hosseini - The novel offers extraordinarily harrowing insights into the lives of Afghan women over the past three decades .... If he cut his teeth by writing about his countrymen, it is the plight of Afghanistan's women that has brought him to realise his full powers as a novelist.

The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman - There are worlds beyond our own - the Compass will show the way... The first novel in Philip Pullmans epic HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy is now the stunning motion picture THE GOLDEN COMPASS, made by New Line Cinema and Scholastic Media.

Mans Search for Meaning - Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live.