100 MOST BORROWED BOOKS (Northern Ireland)

July 1994 – June 1995

ISBN Title Contributor Publisher Year

1 0712616713 Firefly summer Maeve Binchy Century 1987

2 1857970004 The copper beech Maeve Binchy Orion 1992 Barbara Taylor 3 0246138203 Angel Bradford HarperCollins 1993

4 0593021320 The Maltese angel Catherine Cookson Bantam 1992

5 0593015819 Vanished Bantam 1993

6 0593021290 The rag nymph Catherine Cookson Bantam Press 1991

7 0712636889 Circle of friends Maeve Binchy Century 1990

8 0718136020 Decider Dick Francis Michael Joseph 1993

9 0593021355 The golden straw Catherine Cookson Bantam 1993

10 059301359x The year of the virgins Catherine Cookson Bantam Press 1993

11 0593019369 Justice is a woman Catherine Cookson Bantam 1994

12 0434142573 A diner of herbs: a novel Catherine Cookson Heinemann 1985 The cultured handmaiden: a 13 043414276x novel Catherine Cookson Heinemann 1988 Hodder & 14 0340564727 Dolores Claiborne Stephen King Stoughton 1993

15 0593014340 My beloved son Catherine Cookson Bantam 1991

16 0002242885 Honour among thieves Jeffery Archer HarperCollins 1993

17 0593014286 Harrogate secret Catherine Cookson Bantam 1989

18 0593014375 of women Catherine Cookson Bantam 1992

19 0434142670 The cinder path: a novel Catherine Cookson Heinemann 1978

20 0436201356 Paddy Clark ha, ha, ha Roddy Doyle Secker & Warburg 1993

21 1857979508 The glass lake Maeve Binchy Orion 1994

22 0593018230 The wingless bird Catherine Cookson Bantam 1990 The man who made husband 23 0593025873 jealous Jilly Cooper Bantam 1993 Roald Dahl: ill Quentin 24 0140327592 Matilda Blake Puffin 1989

25 0593022572 Danielle Steel Bantam 1994 John McCarthy & Jill 26 0593027299 Some other rainbow Morrell Bantam Press 1993

27 0002236400 The stars shine down Sidney Sheldon HarperCollins 1993

28 059301569x Danielle Steel Bantam 1989

29 0593017269 The Gillyvors Catherine Cookson Bantam 1990

30 0002243296 Twelve red herrings Jeffery Archer HarperCollins 1994 Barbara Taylor 31 0246129859 Remember Bradford HarperCollins 1991

32 0330266020 Superfudge Judy Blume Pan 1990

33 0593022513 Danielle Steel Bantam 1992

34 0593022548 Danielle Steel Bantam 1992

35 0333619358 Tiger eyes Shirley Conran Macmillan 1994

36 0434142727 Tilly Trotter widowed: a novel Catherine Cookson Heinemann 1982

37 071262287x Silver wedding Maeve Binchy Century 1988

38 0002239264 Playing with cobras Craig Thomas HarperCollins 1993 New English 39 0450591956 Whispers Belva Plain Library 1993

40 0747514674 A Spanish lover Joanna Trollope Bloomsbury 1993

41 0434142557 Bill Bailey: a novel Catherine Cookson Heinemann 1986

42 0593018362 Polo Jilly Cooper Bantam 1991 Charlie and the chocolate Roald Dahl: ill Michael 43 0140318240 factory Foreman Puffin 1985

44 0571171133 The book of guys Garrison Keillor Faber 1993

45 8434209691 A complete book of drawing J. M. Parramon Parramon 1988

46 0593018206 The black candle Catherine Cookson Bantam press 1989

47 0002236389 Memories of Midnight Sidney Sheldon Collins 1990

48 0091776368 The crocodile bird Ruth Rendell Hutchinson 1993

49 0333306422 Peace at last Jill Murphy Macmillan 1980 Macmillan 50 0333350057 Whatever next! Jill Murphy Children’s 1983

51 0593028511 The tinker’s girl Catherine Cookson Bantam Press 1994

52 0718137922 On dangerous ground Jack Higgins Michael Joseph 1994 Hodder & 53 0340608455 Insomnia Stephen King Stoughton 1994

54 0747208328 Mr Murder Dean Kootz Headline 1993

55 000223095x Weep no more my lady Mary Higgins Clark Collins 1987

56 0593037081 Gift Danielle Steel Bantam 1994 Chapmans 57 1855920611 Eye of the storm Jack Higgins Publishers 1992

58 0593027981 The fist of God Frederick Forsyth Bnatam Press 1994

59 0712654542 The chamber John Grisham Century 1994

60 0718134826 Driving force Dick Francis Michael Joseph 1992

61 095152710x A question for heaven Kathleen O’Connor Glencree 1989

62 0718134680 Comeback Dick Francis Michael Joseph 1991

63 0002243059 The fighting man Gerald Seymour HarperCollins 1993 Staring Sally J. Freedman as 64 0330282794 herself Judy Blume Piper Books 1988

65 0434142751 The moth: a novel Catherine Cookson Heinemann 1986 Hodder & 66 0340508922 The mallow years Audrey Howard Stoughton 1990 Hodder & 67 0340541598 As the crow flies Jeffery Archer Stoughton 1991

68 059301572x Danielle Steel Bantam 1991 The elephant and the bad Story Elfrida Vipont, ill 69 0241016398 baby Raymond Briggs Hamilton 1969

70 086020412x Playing the Guitar Charlie Spencer Usborne Pub. 1980 Barbara Taylor 71 000224151x Everything to gain Bradford HarperCollins 1994

72 0002242826 The touch of innocents Michael Dobbs HarperCollins 1994 Roald Dahl: ill Quentin 73 0224027867 Esio Trot Blake Cape 1990

74 0333568745 River god Wilbur Smith Macmillan 1993

75 0718137450 Thunder point Jack Higgins Michael Joseph 1993

76 0004126165 Sketching Judy Martin HarperCollins 1991 Charlie and the great glass Roald Dahl: ill Michael 77 0140320431 elevator Foreman Puffin 1975 The giraffe and the pelly and Roald Dahl: ill Quentin 78 0140505660 me Blake Puffin 1987

79 0246138475 The hidden city David Eddings HarperCollins 1994

80 0718131797 The edge Dick Francis Michael Joseph 1988 The heart of rock & soul: the 81 0140121080 1001 great Dave Marsh Penguin 1989 Jacqueline Pinto: ill 82 0241115140 The school gala disaster Shaun Carey Hamilton 1985

83 033010361x The crock of gold James Stephens Pan Books 1973

84 043627339x Lipstick traces Greil Marcus Secker & Walburg 1990

85 0671718371 Darkest hour Virginia Andrews Simon & Schuster 1993

86 0713723041 Sketching at home John Hamilton Blandford 1991

87 0715399489 The watercolorist’s garden Jill Bays David & Charles 1993

88 0854932364 May favourite year: Ed Nick Hornby Witherby 1993

89 0861121945 Ships Stephen Attmore Brimax Books 1983

90 0862762154 Nightmare movies Kim Newman Proteus 1985 Painting nature’s detail in 91 0891343628 watercolour Cathy Johnson North Light Books 1991 retold James 92 Stephens: ill A. Godfrey Cave 0906223091 Irish fairy tales Rackman Associates 1979 Roald Dahl: illus 93 Emma Chichester 0140342699 James and the giant peach Clark Puffin 1990 Barbara Taylor 94 0246119527 Voice of the heart Bradford Granada 1983 Hodder & 95 0340580224 Treasures Belva Plain Stoughton 1992

96 0718136039 Wild horses Dick Francis Michael Joseph 1994 Otherwise known as Sheila 97 0330260510 the Great Judy Blume Pan Books 1980

98 0552136212 The Gillyvors Catherine Cookson Corgi 1991 Brian Ball: ill Lesley 99 0241125170 Hop it, Duggy Dog Smith Hamish Hamilton’s 1989 Hodder & 100 0340412720 The wise Child Jessica Stirling Stoughton 1990 Mischief: A novel of the 87th Hodder & 101 0340589493 precinct Ed McBain Stoughton 1993 Stone cold: the true story of 102 0091774101 Michael St Marin Dillon Hutchinson 1992

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