Small Joys of Real Life by Allee Richards
An Insider’s Plague Year by Peter Doherty
The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
Dark as Last Night by Tony Birch
The Women of Little Lon by Barbara Minchinton
Recipe for a Kinder Life by Annie Smithers
After Story by Larissa Behrendt
The Orchard Murders by Robert Gott
The Perfume Thief by Timothy Schaffert
Animal by Lisa Taddeo
Our best-seller for another week running is local debut, Small Joys of Real Life by Alee Richards. It’s a story of loving, losing, and the small moments that allow you to keep moving forward. You can read our review here. The novel is also the first to be featured as part of the recently announced Melbourne City Reads campaign to support local authors and bookshops.
Other books making an appearance on our bestseller list this week include a sparkling tale of espionage and romance, a recount on the Covid-19 pandemic response from Nobel Prize Winner and prominent expert Dr Peter Doherty, and a book for every local history lover’s bookshelf that ‘lays bare the identities of the various brothel madams and sex workers from colonial-era Melbourne through to the Gold Rush boom, reclaiming their fascinating stories from the moralists’ rubbish bin’. Read our review of this compelling work of non-fiction here.
