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Vintage Chart

Top six paperbacks, August 7, 1977

1. CRY WOLF

Wilbur Smith

Arms-dealing in Ethopia — that’s the next summer holiday sorted, then.

2. CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS

Taylor Caldwell

Mancunian author of ambiguous gender gives the Kennedy dynasty a good once-over.

3. SUPERWOMAN

Shirley Conran

She can’t balance a car on her finger, but she can balance her life-work ratio.

4. THE CHOIRBOYS

Joseph Wambaugh

More boozing and sex than angelic warbling in LAPD “choir practice”.

5. THE DEEP

Peter Benchley

Jaws-man returns to the ocean for tale of sunken treasure and bad druggy men.

6. JAMES BOND: THE SPY WHO LOVED ME

Christopher Wood

The other Jaws — the non-shark one with the metal dentures — stars in this novelisation of a film that, apart from its title, owes nothing to Fleming.

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