Following on from Nam Le selling the most books at last year's writers festival, another local author - Steven Amsterdam - had done the same thing at the 2009 festival. After winning the Age Book of the Year award with Things We Didn't See Coming, Amsterdam beat out visiting international authors Bernhard Schlink, Thomas Buergenthal and Anne Michaels to sell the most books at our festival bookshop at Federation Square.
Here's the top ten selling books from the entire 2009 Melbourne Writers Festival:
- Things We Didn't See Coming — Steven Amsterdam
- A Lucky Child — Thomas Buergenthal
- The Bee Hut — Dorothy Porter
- Guilt About the Past — Bernhard Schlink
- Raft — Howard Goldenberg
- The Winter Vault — Anne Michaels
- Swimming — Enza Gandolfo
- The House Of Wittgenstein: A Family At War — Alexander Waugh
- The Lost Mother: A Story of Art and Love — Anne Summers
- The Lieutenant — Kate Grenville
