Experience paperback
on the Best-Seller List in London (but well below The Weakest Link Quiz
Book)
(from The Daily Telegraph (London), 28 April 2001): 2
(annotations by the terminally precious Telegraph blurbists)
Paperback non-fiction:
1 A Child Called 'It' by Dave Pelzer (Orion, pounds 5.99) 10,420 Kid
saw mum through a glass, darkly.
2 The Weakest Link Quiz Book (Penguin, pounds 5.99) 5,212 What's that
you say, Mrs Robinson?
3 Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution by Robert C Atkins (Vermilion, pounds
6.99) 5,133 Post-Easter-egg remedial therapy.
4 NatWest Playfair Cricket Annual 200 -11 (Headline, pounds 5.99) 4,831
Cricket in your pocket.
5 McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy (Sceptre, pounds 6.99) 4,341 Ireland?
It was here last time I saw it . . . .
6 Over Hill and Dale by Gervase Phinn (Penguin, pounds 6.99) 3,666 A
school inspector calls.
7 Bridget Jones's Guide to Life by Helen Fielding (Picador, pounds
2.50) 3,238 The girl can't help you.
8 Elizabeth by David Starkey (Vintage, pounds 7.99) 3,067 Historian
goes into virgin records.
9 Wan2tlk? Ltl Bk of Txt Msgs (O'Mara, pounds 1.99) 2,986 B short n 2
the pt.
10 Experience by Martin Amis (Vintage, pounds 7.99) 2,597 The son also
writes.