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Former diplomat, Zadie Smith bestselling authors
Indo-Asian News Service

New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) Partition's "untold story" by a former diplomat continues its run as number one on the non-fiction list, while Salman Rushdie makes space for British author Zadie Smith's "On Beauty" as top selling fiction book. 

The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction categories this week are:

Non-Fiction

"The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition"
Author : Narendra Singh Sarila
Publisher : Harper Collins
Price : Rs.500.00

2. "The Argumentative Indian"
Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Penguin Allen Lane
Price : Rs.650.00

3. "Mao: The Unknown Story"
Author : Jung Chang & Jon Halliday
Publisher : Jonathan Cape London
Price : £13.00 (Rs.1,012)

4. "Sahib: The British Soldier In India"
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : Harper Collins
Price : £10.00 (Rs.778)

5. "Eyewitness Kashmir: Teetering on Nuclear War"
Author : Arun Joshi
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish Academic
Price : $19.00 (Rs.836)

6. "Why Globalization Works"
Author : Martin Wolf
Publisher : Yale University Press
Price : $18.00 (Rs.792)

7. "Indiraji: Through My Eyes"
Author : Usha Bhagat
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : Rs.595.00

8. "It's Not About the Bike: By Journey Back to Life"
Author : Lance Armstrong
Publisher : Yellow Jersey Press
Price : £4.75 (Rs.209)

9. "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything"
Authors : Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Publisher : Penguin Allen Lane
Price : £6.00 (Rs.467) 

10. "Monkey Business : Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle"
Author : John Rolfe and Peter Troob
Publisher : Warner Business Books
Price : $11.00 (Rs.484)


Fiction

1. "On Beauty"
Author : Zadie Smith
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Price : £4.50 (Rs.350)

2. "The Lighthouse: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery"
Author : P.D. James
Publisher : Faber and Faber
Price : £6.99 (Rs.544)

3. "Never Let Me Go"
Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Faber and Faber
Price : £6.50 (Rs.506)

4. "Angels and Demons"
Author : Dan Brown
Publisher : Corgi Books
Price : £2.90 (Rs.232)

5. "Act of War"
Author : Dale Brown
Publisher : Harper Collins
Price : £6.50 (Rs.506)

6. "Mary, Mary"
Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Headline
Price : Rs.395.00

7. "With No One As Witness"
Author : Elizabeth George
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Price : £7.50 (Rs.583)

8. "A Long Way Down"
Author : Nick Hornby
Publisher : Penguin Viking
Price : £12.75 (Rs.992)

9. "Mistress"
Author : Anita Nair
Publisher : Penguin Books
Price : Rs.350.00

10. "The Man Who Smiled"
Author : Henning Mankell
Publisher : Harvill
Price : £7.25 (Rs.564)

(Source: Bahri Sons, New Delhi, www.booksatbahri.com. All the books listed above are available online)