Our top ten bestsellers of the week

  1. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
  2. That Sugar Book by Damon Gameau
  3. Bad Behaviour: A Memoir of Bullying and Boarding School by Rebecca Starford
  4. City Limits: Why Australia’s cities are broken and how we can fix them by Jane-Frances Kelly and Paul Donegan
  5. The Happy Cookbook by Lola Berry
  6. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
  7. Hello, Beautiful!: Scenes from a Life by Hannie Rayson
  8. We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
  9. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
  10. The Port Fairy Murders by Robert Gott

Our top seller for last week is Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel The Buried Giant – his first in ten years! Set in a mythical version of England, the book represents new ground for the Japanese-British author and has proved divisive among his fans.

In his review of the work, Neil Gaiman writes, ‘Fantasy and historical fiction and myth here run together with the Matter of Britain, in a novel that’s easy to admire, to respect and to enjoy, but difficult to love. Still, The Buried Giant does what important books do: It remains in the mind long after it has been read, refusing to leave, forcing one to turn it over and over.’ (Read his full review here.)

Our bestsellers list also includes two new memoirs from Australian women: Bad Behaviour: A Memoir of Bullying and Boarding School by Rebecca Starford and Hello, Beautiful!: Scenes from a Life by Hannie Rayson. We have signed copies of both available, but for a limited time only so hurry!