Our top ten bestsellers of the week

  1. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
  2. The First Bad Man by Miranda July
  3. We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
  4. Fury: Women Write About Sex, Power and Violence edited by Samantha Trenoweth
  5. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
  6. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
  7. The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity by Norman Doidge
  8. Community: Salad Recipes from Arthur Street Kitchen by Hetty McKinnon
  9. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
  10. Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi

Following a moving public lecture at the University of Melbourne last Thursday, Bryan Stevenson’s memoir, Just Mercy, is our top seller for the past week. Our reviewer describes this release as a ‘profoundly important work’, and you can read the first chapter from the book here.

Another ‘profoundly important work’ on our list of top sellers is Fury. Edited by Samantha Trenoweth, here is a collection of writing about violence against women. Our reviewer writes, ‘Each of the writers Trenoweth has assembled is courageous in her storytelling and never claims a universalised female experience.’ Read the full review here.