Our top 10 bestsellers of the week

  1. The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
  2. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
  3. Maybe the Horse Will Talk by Elliot Perlman
  4. Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré
  5. Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
  6. Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
  7. The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson
  8. Australia’s First Families of Wine by Richard Allen & Kimbal Baker
  9. The Night Fire by Michael Connelly
  10. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The brilliant new novel from award-winning author Charlotte Wood tops our bestsellers list this week. In The Weekend, three old friends come together to clean out the beach house of another friend who has recently died, and our reviewer says that Wood ‘ beautifully realises the voices of older women’. Read the full review here.

Other works of Australian fiction to appear here include Elliot Perlman’s Maybe the Horse Will Talk, Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe and the winner of this year’s Readings Prize for new Australian Fiction: The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson! We are big fans of this novel which is at once a pacey disaster thriller and a powerful examination of motherhood. We have copies available at the super special of $24.99 ().