Our top 10 bestsellers of the week

  1. The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
  2. The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan
  3. The Watermill by Arnold Zable
  4. Beatrix Bakes by Natalie Paull
  5. Growing Pineapples in the Outback by Tony Kelly & Rebecca Lister
  6. Party Animals by Samantha Maiden
  7. The Salt Madonna by Catherine Noske
  8. Trace Elements by Donna Leon
  9. She I Dare Not Name by Donna Ward
  10. Truganini by Cassandra Pybus

It’s a surprise to no one at all that Hilary Mantel’s long-awaited final book in her Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, rocketed to the top of our bestsellers in its first week of release. Dervla McTiernan’s The Good Turn maintained its bestselling status this week, as did baking bible, Beatrix Bakes.

If you look at the rest of our bestsellers, it’s chock-full of wonderful and diverse books: memoir (Growing Pineapples in the Outback), more crime (Trace Elements, The Salt Madonna), short stories (The Watermill) and election exegesis (Party Animals).