Our top 10 bestsellers of the week

  1. A Higher Loyalty by James Comey
  2. Tracker by Alexis Wright
  3. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Anita Heiss
  4. The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean by Mira Robertson
  5. The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton
  6. The Earth Does Not Get Fat by Julia Prendergast
  7. The Death Of Noah Glass by Gail Jones
  8. The Temptation of Forgiveness by Donna Leon
  9. Moment of Truth (Quarterly Essay 69) by Mark McKenna
  10. The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape

James Comey, the former director of the FBI, tops our bestsellers list this week with A Higher Loyalty – a riveting insider’s account of some of the most consequential cases and policies of recent history.

Following Comey is Alexis Wright’s Tracker, which was recently named the winner of the 2018 Stella Prize, and the brilliant anthology, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, which brings together memoir from a number of Indigenous writers.

Other bestselling books of last week include plenty of great Australian fiction, including two debuts (The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean, The Earth Does Not Get Fat), as well as new works from Readings favourites Tim Winton and Gail Jones (The Shepherd’s Hut, The Death Of Noah Glass).