Our top ten bestsellers of the week

1. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
2. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
3. We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
4. The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity by Norman Doidge
5. The Story of A Prime Minister: Paul Keating by David Day
6. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
7. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
8. Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi
9. Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories by Elizabeth Strout
10. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman

Our top seller for last week is Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread, a sprawling family saga that our managing director Mark Rubbo called “utterly engrossing, enjoyable and, at times, illuminating”. This is the twentieth (and she’s hinted, possibly last) novel from the 73-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning author and several of our staff are currently ‘roadtesting’ it for book clubs. Intrigued? Find out more here.

Another Pulitzer Prize-winning author on our list is Elizabeth Strout with her 2008 release, Olive Kitteridge, which has recently been turned into a four-hour mini-series of the same name. Our digital marketing manager Nina Kenwood gave the book “a rare A+ rating”.