1. Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh
2. Extinctions by Josephine Wilson
3. Moral Panic 101 (Quarterly Essay 67) by Benjamin Law
4. On Doubt by Leigh Sales
5. A Legacy of Spies by John le Carré
6. What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
7. The Choke by Sofie Laguna
8. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz (translated by George Goulding)
9. The Dry by Jane Harper
10. Ostro by Julia Busuttil Nishimura

A new cookbook from Yotam Ottolenghi and his long-time collaborator Melbourne pastry chef Helen Goh is out bestselling book of last week. Sweet comprises over 110 innovative recipes – from ‘Persian Love Cakes’ to ‘Walnut and Rosewater and Cinnamon Pavlova with Praline Cream and Fresh Figs’.

Our other top sellers from last week include… Josephine Wilson’s stunning novel, Extinctions, which won this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award; Benjamin Law’s timely new Quarterly Essay which unpacks the furore (and hysteria) over the Safe Schools program; and What Happened, a much-anticipated memoir from Hillary Rodham Clinton.