1. The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
2. Ottolenghi FLAVOUR by Yotam Ottolenghi & Ixta Belfrage
3. Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
4. A Year of Simple Family Food by Julia Busuttil Nishimura
5. A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu
6. The Yield by Tara June Winch
7. A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
8. The Golden Maze by Richard Fidler
9. Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
10. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

There’s a mix of newer and not-so-new books in our bestsellers this week. Our number one seller, Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults, continues to prove that it’s one of the biggest releases of this year. A notable new entry to our list is Susanna Clarke’s long-awaited novel, Piranesi, which garnered a rave review from our staff reviewer Lian, who described it as ‘poetic and sparse, metaphysical and cinematic.’

Other fiction that our customers have been flocking to include Jessie Tu’s exploration of female desire, the winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and Kate Grenville’s stunning historical novel.

Everyone is continuing to cook their way through lockdown, with the new cookbooks from Ottolenghi and Julia Busuttil Nishimura sitting firmly on our bestsellers again, and we have also been feeding our brains with Bruce Pascoe’s seminal work of Australian history, Dark Emu, and Richard Fidler’s entertaining history of Prague.