Our top ten bestsellers of the week

  1. The Mindfulness Colouring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People by Emma Farrarons
  2. Gut: the Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Under-Rated Organ by Giulia Enders
  3. Guarding Eden by Deborah Hart
  4. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
  5. Forever Young by Steven Carroll
  6. The Lost Swimmer by Ann Turner
  7. Shining: The Story of a Lucky Man by Abdi Aden and Robert Hillman
  8. The Strays by Emily Bitto
  9. Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s by Stuart Macintyre
  10. Blood Year - Terror and the Islamic State by David Kilcullen (Quarterly Essay 58)

This week’s bestsellers list includes some fascinating non-fiction titles: scientist Giulia Enders tells the story of ‘our body’s most under-rated organ’ in Gut; Deborah Hart shares the stories of how twelve ordinary people fight against climate change in Guarding Eden; and, Stuart Macintyre demonstrates how the 1940s were a pivotal decade for Australians in Australia’s Boldest Experiment.

Our list also includes two fast-paced thrillers featuring unreliable narrators (The Girl on the Train and The Lost Swimmer) and a new novel from the award-winning author Steven Carroll (Forever Young). You can find some photos from Carroll’s launch last week here.