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Two days after Cinquante nuances de Grey, the French translation of Fifty Shades Of Grey, was released, the erotic novel has become the fastest selling book in the country's publishing history.

The astonishing sales figures - of around 75,000 every day - come after the book was panned by French critics as crass pseudo-porn that reads like a Mills and Boon novel. One high-brow reviewer wrote: It's as close to literature as Whiskas cat food is to gastronomy.

A spokesman for FNAC, which accounts for around a fifth of all book sales in France, said:

It is amazingly popular. We have never stocked a book that has sold so fast.

We sold 15,000 copies on the day it was released. In some shops there were just none left.

The London Evening Standard has rounded up the top 10 Halloween cinema events

Halloween @ Prince Charles Cinema, October 20-31

The West End's Prince Charles cinema is pulling out all the stops in the build-up to Halloween, and they've got some cracking films on offer; there's a John Carpenter all-nighter, a German Expressionist marathon and the The Exorcist, among others.

Film4 FrightFest Halloween All-Nighter @ Vue Leicester Square, October 27

Film 4's FrightFest is back for another all-nighter full of fearsome films and sinister surprises. This year, get ready for several UK premieres, including The Tall Man, Excision, The Helpers and a surprise tba film, as well as classics like Bait 3D and Zombie Flesh Eaters.

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There's a nationwide chance to see John Carpenter's original Halloween on 31st October, but I am told this will be a Blu-ray presentation that includes the a 10 minute Fangoria short called You can't kill the boogeyman: 35 years of Halloween.