Our top ten bestsellers of the week
- The Mindfulness Colouring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People by Emma Farrarons
- Gut: the Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Under-Rated Organ by Giulia Enders
- Guarding Eden by Deborah Hart
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Forever Young by Steven Carroll
- The Lost Swimmer by Ann Turner
- Shining: The Story of a Lucky Man by Abdi Aden and Robert Hillman
- The Strays by Emily Bitto
- Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s by Stuart Macintyre
- 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.