Second Place by Rachel Cusk
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The Truth About China by Bill Birtles
Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz
Turns Out I’m Fine by Judith Lucy
The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Love Objects by Emily Maguire
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
Our best-seller from the past week is Rachel Cusk’s long-awaited novel Second Place, an exploration of the tangential possibilities to create and destroy through art and our sense of self. You can read our staff review of this intriguing new novel here.
Other books making an appearance on our bestseller list this week include a haunting crime debut about grief and friendship, a sharp-eyed novel centring on our emotional connections with objects and how we live with loneliness, and the latest work from a Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, as our staff reviewer notes, is a ‘starkly different to her earlier works of fiction’ in style, while remaining just as compelling overall. Jhumpa Lahiri has recently been announced as one of the writers appearing at this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival during the month of September. You can find out more about early release tickets for MWF21 here.
