1. Paul Keating: The big-picture leader by Troy Bramston
2. The Good People by Hannah Kent
3. Wedding Bush Road by David Francis
4. Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford
5. Swing Time by Zadie Smith
6. The Sellout by Paul Beatty
7. Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a spy’s son by Mark Colvin
8. The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
9. The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming (Quarterly Essay 64) by Stan Grant
10. Smith & Daughters: A Cookbook (That Happens to be Vegan) by Shannon Martinez and Mo Wyse

Please note: This list doesn’t include sales from our 12 Days of Christmas Special Offers.

Troy Bramston’s new biography on Paul Keating is our bestselling book of last week. For this definitive work, Bramston has drawn on interviews with more than 100 people, and has also included material from Keating’s personal files and Labor’s archive.

Other Australian bestselling books from last week include…. two moving works of Australian fiction (The Good People, Wedding Bush Road); two memoirs from fascinating Australian figures (Fight Like a Girl, Light and Shadow); a provocative new Quarterly Essay from Stan Grant (The Australian Dream); a delicious cookbook from two Melbourne restaurateurs (Smith & Daughters); and, the ‘only money guide you’ll ever need’ (The Barefoot Investor).