Our top 10 bestsellers of the week

1. Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
2. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
3. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
4. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
5. A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (translated by Nick Caister & Amanda Hopkinson)
6. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
7. Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas
8. The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
9. Normal People by Sally Rooney
10. A Very Stable Genius by Carol D. Leonnig & Philip Rucker

There were lots of familiar books in our bestsellers this week, with Dark Emu, Where the Crawdads Sing, Damascus, Such a Fun Age and other proven stayers continuing to sell strongly.

Two notable new entries were Isabel Allende’s A Long Petal of the Sea, an epic story of seeking refuge after the Spanish Civil War, and A Very Stable Genius, a rigorous look at Trump’s presidency by two Pulitzer-Prize-winning investigative journalists.