Our top 10 bestsellers of the week

  1. The Book of Dirt by Bram Presser
  2. Try Hard by Em Rusciano (Pre-orders only, available 1 November)
  3. Ostro by Julia Busuttil Nishimura
  4. The Choke by Sofie Laguna
  5. A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré
  6. Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh
  7. City of Crows by Chris Womersley
  8. Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor
  9. The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
  10. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz (translated by George Goulding)

Australian author Bram Presser tops our bestsellers list this week. The Book of Dirt reimagines the lives of Jakub Rand, a rabbi’s son tasked with curating Eichmann’s infamous Museum of the Extinct Race, and Františka Roubíckova, a converted Jew who would go on to establish a smuggling network that would stretch as far as Auschwitz. You can read our review here.

Other bestselling books from last week include two delicious cookbooks (Ostro, Sweet), two new Australian novels from award-winning authors (The Choke, City of Crows), the fifth book in the bestselling Millennium series (The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye), and a long-awaited George Smiley story from John le Carré (A Legacy of Spies).