Our top 10 bestsellers of the week

  1. What Is to Be Done by Barry Jones
  2. One Day I’ll Remember This: Diaries 1987-1995 by Helen Garner
  3. The Survivors by Jane Harper
  4. All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
  5. Death in Daylesford by Kerry Greenwood
  6. Ottolenghi FLAVOUR by Yotam Ottolenghi & Ixta Belfrage
  7. A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough
  8. Troy by Stephen Fry
  9. Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan
  10. A Year of Simple Family Food by Julia Busuttil Nishimura

There’s been a thirst for non-fiction this week, with a long-awaited book from Barry Jones on the challenges of modernity, another instalment of Helen Garner’s riveting diaries and David Attenborough’s legacy-defining witness statement in our top 10, not to mention the consistently bestselling cookbooks from Yotam Ottolenghi and Julia Busuttil Nishimura.

Notable new entries to our bestsellers list this week include Kerry Greenwood’s brand-spanking Phryne Fisher mystery and Stephen Fry’s third volume retelling the epic tale of Troy. We’re also pleased to see this year’s winner of the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, Elizabeth Tan’s Smart Ovens for Lonely People continuing to find lucky readers.