Our top ten bestsellers of the week

  1. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker
  2. Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
  3. Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
  4. Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders
  5. From My Mother by Tina Neofytou
  6. Australian Notebooks by Betty Churcher
  7. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
  8. The Strays by Emily Bitto
  9. Dangerous Allies by Malcolm Fraser
  10. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Joël Dicker’s crime sensation, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, is our top seller for last week. Described as “ Twin Peaks meets Atonement meets In Cold Blood”, this translated novel has now sold more than two million copies world-wide!

Also at the top of our list is another much-talked about new release - Maxine Beneba Clarke’s astonishing short-story collection, Foreign Soil. You can read a Q&A with Beneba Clarke about the book here.

Another new release from an Australia debut author also features on our list. Emily Bitto’s The Strays is a “compulsively readable story of the 1930s Australian art scene, parental narcissism and female friendship”. Come along and hear Bitto talk on the book next week! Find out more here.