Our top ten bestsellers of the week

  1. M Train by Patti Smith
  2. The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks
  3. Kissed by A Deer by Margi Gibb
  4. Island Home: A Landscape Memoir by Tim Winton
  5. The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
  6. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
  7. Faction Man: Bill Shorten’s Path to Power (Quarterly Essay 59) by David Marr
  8. ST Gill & His Audiences by Sasha Grishin
  9. The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz (translated by George Goulding)
  10. The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

Patti Smith’s new memoir, a follow-up to her acclaimed Just Kids, is our top seller for the past week. Our reviewer loved this book and promises that it won’t disappoint either fans or newcomers. Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Geraldine Brooks is another top seller for last week. Set in 1000 BC, The Secret Chord is a deeply imaginative retelling of the story of King David and is receiving rave reviews. Another bestselling Australian fiction release that is creating buzz this month is Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things. (Our reviewer read it in one sitting!)

Two terrific new travel reads also made our bestsellers list – Bill Bryson’s insightful and very funny, The Road to Little Dribbling, and Margi Gibb’s Tibetan odyssey, Kissed by A Deer.