Catapulting straight to the top of our bestsellers this month, replacing the ever-popular All Fours, is a title our reviewer says is 'one of the most important books published here in many years' – The Men Who Killed the News by Australian journalist Eric Beecher.

Other first-timers to the list were some outstanding fiction and crime fiction including: Woo Woo by Ella Baxter, a darkly funny, pyrotechnic and deeply unsettling novel; the chilling new mystery from Margaret Hickey, The Creeper; The Echoes by Evie Wyld, a story about the weight of the past and the promise of the future; bestselling author Daniel Silva's latest instalment in his Gabriel Allon spy thriller series, A Death in Cornwall; and There are Rivers in the Sky by Booker-shortlisted author Elif Shafak.

Lastly, there are a couple of noteworthy nonfiction books: The Shortest History of Music by Andrew Ford, the fascinating story of why music is vital to the human experience; and The Soul: A History of the Human Mind by Paul Ham, which embarks on a journey to restore the idea of the soul to the human story and to show how belief in, and beliefs arising from, the soul/mind have animated and driven the history of humankind.

1. The Men Who Killed the News by Eric Beecher
2. All Fours by Miranda July
3. Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright
4. Tipo 00: The Pasta Cookbook by Andreas Papadakis
5. The Creeper by Margaret Hickey
6. Chae: Korean Slow Food for a Better Life by Jung Eun Chae
7. Woo Woo by Ella Baxter
8. Tarts Anon: Sweet and Savoury Tart Brilliance by Gareth Whitton & Catherine Way
9. Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
10. Butter by Asako Yuzuki & Polly Barton (trans.)
11. There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
12. The Shortest History of Music by Andrew Ford
13. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi & Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
14. The Echoes by Evie Wyld
15. What Does Israel Have to Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
16. The Soul: A History of the Human Mind by Paul Ham
17. A Death in Cornwall by Daniel Silva
18. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
19. The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
20. Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner