Our top ten bestsellers of the week

  1. Bad Behaviour: A Memoir of Bullying and Boarding School by Rebecca Starford
  2. The First Bad Man by Miranda July
  3. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
  4. We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
  5. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
  6. Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi
  7. The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity by Norman Doidge
  8. Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey
  9. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
  10. The Happy Cookbook by Lola Berry

It seems fitting that our top seller for this first week of March is about bullying, with the National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence to be held later this month (on Friday 20 March). Rebecca Starford’s memoir of her experience as a fourteen-year-old at a prestigious Melbourne school’s outdoor education campus is a gripping read that has many of our staff talking. Our reviewer Annie Condon writes, ‘Within minutes of reading, I was hooked’, while our Books’ Division Manager Martin Shaw writes, ‘…I had never expected a tale quite so compelling and affecting as this one’.

You can read a wide-ranging interview between Shaw and Starford here, or you can come hear Starford talk about the memoir in person at our Carlton shop – find more details here.

And for a limited time only, if you order the book online you’ll receive a copy signed by the author.

Other top selling books by Australian authors this week include: Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North; Ceridwen Dovey’s Readings Prize-winning Only the Animals (in a new format!); and, leading Australian nutritionist Lola Berry’s new cookbook, The Happy Cookbook.

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Bad Behaviour

Rebecca Starford

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