Jenny Pattrick’s The Denniston Rose has returned to the top of the New Zealand Fiction for Adults chart, according to figures just released by Booksellers New Zealand. It’s now spent a total of 21 weeks on the chart.

In second place is Ihimaera’s Whanau II, with The Whale Rider close behind at #3. The Whale Rider has now spent an extraordinary 32 weeks on the chart.

Jenny Pattrick’s sequel to The Denniston Rose, Heart Of Coal, is at #4. And the previous #1, Deborah Challinor’s Blue Smoke, has dropped to #5.

The Non Fiction for Adults charts has a new face at #2: Way of the Jafa by Lee Baker and Benjamin Crellin. A Portrait of New Zealand by Warren Jacobs has reappeared at #7, and Jane Seabrook’s Furry Logic has made a return visit at #9.

Michael King’s Penguin History Of New Zealand is still at the top of the chart. David Slack’s Bullshit, Backlash And Bleeding Hearts has slipped a place to #3 and Spiros Zavos’ How To Watch A Game of Rugby is proving to be no flash in the pan at #10, a good start for new publisher AWA Press.

These figures cover the two weeks prior to 9 July 2004.