1. The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
2. Ottolenghi FLAVOUR by Yotam Ottolenghi & Ixta Belfrage
3. A Year of Simple Family Food by Julia Busuttil Nishimura
4. The Golden Maze by Richard Fidler
5. The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte
6. The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall
7. A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu
8. The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and pandemic politics (Quarterly Essay 79) by Katharine Murphy
9. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
10. The Yield by Tara June Winch

What a great batch of eclectic books we have in our top 10 this week! Fiction lovers have been flocking to Elena Ferrante’s new and long-awaited eighth novel, Steven Conte’s gripping historical drama set in wartime Russia, an evocative near-future second novel from Kate Mildenhall and the recently-announced winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.

Non-fiction readers have been enjoying fascinating history and armchair travel via Richard Fidler’s The Golden Maze, and the latest Quarterly Essay by Katharine Murphy - a penetrating look at Scott Morrison’s response to the COVID-19 crisis.

And finally, all the keen home cooks have been turning to two excellent cookbooks from two cooks that can do no wrong: Ottolenghi FLAVOUR by Yotam Ottolenghi & Ixta Belfrage and A Year of Simple Family Food by Julia Busuttil Nishimura.