1. The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
2. Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
3. Robert Menzies: The Art of Politics by Troy Bramston
4. The Overstory by Richard Powers
5. Losing the Plot by Elizabeth Coleman
6. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani & Omid Tofighian (trans.)
7. Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
8. Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
9. Metropolis by Philip Kerr
10. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

The boost in awareness from literary prizes was in full effect among our bestsellers last week, with Vicki Laveau-Harvie’s Stella Prize-winning memoir about her dysfunctional family, The Erratics, leading our top 10, and Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning The Overstory in fourth spot. Powers’ expansive novel is a favourite of Readings Carlton assistant manager Julia Jackson, who described it as an ‘elegiac and absorbing novel about humanity, trees and our relationship with the natural environment’.

Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me, a provocative exploration of AI and the limits of human control, was our second bestselling title, followed by Troy Bramston’s political biography Robert Menzies: The Art of Politics, the first single-volume biography of the Liberal party leader in more than 20 years.

Other bestsellers from last week include Elizabeth Coleman’s charming and funny Losing the Plot, fiction by Sally Rooney, Trent Dalton and Philip Kerr, and non-fiction by Behrouz Boochani and Bruce Pascoe.