Our top 10 bestsellers of the week

1. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
2. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
3. A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough
4. Loving Country by Bruce Pascoe & Vicky Shukuroglou
5. The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
6. Ottolenghi FLAVOUR by Yotam Ottolenghi & Ixta Belfrage
7. The Survivors by Jane Harper
8. All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
9. Quarterly Essay 80: The High Road by Laura Tingle
10. What Is to Be Done by Barry Jones

Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart’s acclaimed Booker Prize-winning novel set in 1980s Glasgow, streaked away from the pack this week, ahead of the career-defining works of memoir from Barack Obama and David Attenborough.

Two notable new non-fiction entries this week were the much-anticipated book from Bruce Pascoe and Vicky Shukuroglou, Loving Country, a powerful Australian guidebook focussed on First Nations sacred places, narratives and communities, and Laura Tingle’s Quarterly Essay looking at the relationship between Australia and New Zealand.

And for those looking for sparkling new Australian fiction, The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams is a celebration of words and language, set in the time of women’s suffrage and the onset of the Great War.