Our top 10 bestsellers of the week

  1. The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
  2. Moment of Truth (Quarterly Essay 69) by Mark McKenna
  3. Mine by Susi Fox
  4. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Anita Heiss
  5. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
  6. Relatively Famous by Roger Averill
  7. The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
  8. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
  9. 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
  10. Macbeth by Jo Nesbø

Tim Winton continues his reign at the top of our bestsellers list. The Shepherd’s Hut is his first new fiction in more than five years, and our Managing Director Mark Rubbo describes it as an adventure story, saying: ‘Reading this book is like a roller coaster; the vernacular, the language, is a wild and constant surprise…’ Read Mark’s full review here.

Three Australian fiction debuts are also listed among our top sellers. Mine is a harrowing thriller about a mother who wakes up after an emergency caesarean and doesn’t believe the infant given to her is her baby. The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a fictionalised account of the life of Holocaust survivor and Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist Ludwig Sokolov. Relatively Famous explores the world of a son living in the shadow of his Booker Prize-winning father.

We’re also so happy to see our customers snapping up copies of the anthology, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia. This collection of memoir from Indigenous writers is edited by Anita Heiss and it’s our non-fiction book of the month. Our reviewer calls it ‘a much needed addition to every Australian bookshelf.

As an added incentive to purchase this brilliant book, Readings will donate $2 from every sale of Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, until 31 May 2018.