Our top 10 bestsellers of the week

  1. Open House Melbourne Weekend: 2018 program
  2. The Nowhere Child by Christian White
  3. The Barefoot Surgeon by Ali Gripper
  4. Dark Emu (New edition) by Bruce Pascoe
  5. Dunera Lives by Ken Inglis, Seumas Spark and Jay Winter, with Carol Bunyan
  6. Less by Andrew Sean Greer
  7. Teacher by Gabbie Stroud
  8. The Power of Hope by Kon Karapanagiotidis
  9. Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country by Marcia Langton
  10. Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

Our bestselling books of last week include some two terrific non-fiction works from Aboriginal authors. Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu is an award-winning history book that will challenge and enlighten readers, and Marcia Langton’s Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country, is a fully illustrated guide to the people, culture, and places of Indigenous Australia.

Bestselling fiction books from last week included two highly recommended Australian debuts, The Nowhere Child by Christian White and Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton, as well as Andrew Sean Greer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Less.

And our customers are also continuing to snap up copies of the Open House Melbourne Weekend: 2018 program. This fantastic free event offers the public a chance to explore the city’s most historic and significant building, and is less than two weeks away now, on 28-29 July.