January is always a quiet month for new releases but it is a great chance to see what our customers have been reading over the summer holidays. Many of our wonderful 2024 bestsellers feature in this month's list but there are also a couple of books making an appearance for the first time.
Straight in at number 3 after only 10 days on the shelves is Onyx Storm, the third in Rebecca Yarros's ever-popular five-book romantasy series The Empyrean. Also in the top ten, and experiencing a resurgence, is I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, a haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Other notable new books are Geraldine Brooks' Memorial Days and The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins.
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- The Season by Helen Garner
- Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, Book 3) by Rebecca Yarros
- Intermezzo (special edition hardback) by Sally Rooney
- All Fours by Miranda July
- The Vegetarian by Han Kang & Deborah Smith (trans.)
- James by Percival Everett
- RecipeTin Eats: Tonight by Nagi Maehashi
- Butter by Asako Yuzuki by Polly Barton (trans.)
- I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
- Dusk by Robbie Arnott
- Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser
- Time of the Child by Niall Williams
- Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
- Juice by Tim Winton
- The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami & Philip Gabriel (trans.)
- The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
- A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Ilan Pappe
