Our bestsellers lists from last week are good guides to the books that would have been widely received by mothers yesterday. The new Donna Leon crime novel was our most popular book, beating out The Hand That First Held Mine and Sunday's Kitchen.

Top 10 Fiction

  1. A Question Of Belief — Donna Leon
  2. The Hand That First Held Mine — Maggie O'Farrell
  3. This Body Of Death — Elizabeth George
  4. So Much For That — Lionel Shriver
  5. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ — Philip Pullman
  6. Parrot And Olivier In America — Peter Carey
  7. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest — Stieg Larsson
  8. Island Beneath The Sea — Isabel Allende
  9. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand — Helen Simonson
  10. The Dog Who Came In From The Cold: Corduroy Mansions Book Two — Alexander McCall Smith

Top 10 Non-Fiction

  1. Sunday's Kitchen — Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan
  2. The Beauty Myth — Naomi Wolf
  3. The Hard Light Of Day: An Artist's Story Of Friendships In Arrernte Country — Rod Moss
  4. The Unknown Nation: Australia After Empire — James Curran and Stuart Ward
  5. La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair With Italy And The Most Enchanting Language In The World — Dianne Hales
  6. Otherland: A Journey With My Daughter — Maria Tumarkin
  7. Awkward Family Photos — Mike Bender and Doug Chernack
  8. What's Wrong With Anzac? The Militarisation Of Australian History — Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds
  9. Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search For Everything — Elizabeth Gilbert
  10. Breaking News: The Golden Age Of Graham Perkin — Ben Hills