Our top 10 bestsellers of the week

  1. Can You Hear the Sea? by Brenda Niall
  2. The Woman Who Fooled the World by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano
  3. The Midnight Line by Lee Child
  4. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
  5. True Stories by Helen Garner
  6. Stories by Helen Garner
  7. Force of Nature by Jane Harper
  8. 5 Ingredients: Quick & Easy Food by Jamie Oliver
  9. A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey
  10. The Art of Disappearing by Elisabeth Hanscombe

We launched Brenda Niall’s insightful, moving and uniquely personal new book at our Hawthorn shop, and we’re delighted to see Can You Hear the Sea? at the top of our bestseller list this week.

Also in this week’s top 10 is an in-depth examination of disgraced ‘wellness’ guru, Belle Gibson, The Woman Who Fooled the World. If you’re interested in hearing more about this fascinating case, the authors, Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, will be speaking at a free event on Thursday 16 November at our Hawthorn shop. Find more details here.

Other bestsellers this week include a new crime thriller featuring Jack Reacher (The Midnight Line), this winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize (Lincoln in the Bardo), two stunning hardback collections from Helen Garner (Stories, True Stories) and Peter Carey’s new book (A Long Way from Home).

Our Managing Director Mark Rubbo spoke to Carey about this intensely personal new novel here, and we still have limited tickets available for this acclaimed author’s only Melbourne event, which will take place this Thursday 16 November at Cinema Nova in Carlton. Book here.