1. The Mindfulness Colouring Book: Anti-Stress Art Therapy for Busy People by Emma Farrarons
2. Prick with a Fork: The World’s Worst Waitress Spills the Beans by Larissa Dubecki
3. The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz (translated by George Goulding)
4. Make Me by Lee Child
5. Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
6. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
7. A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones
8. Gut: the Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Under-Rated Organ by Giulia Enders
9. St Gill & His Audiences by Sasha Grishin
10. Fever of Animals by Miles Allinson

As our Head Book Buyer Alison Huber wrote in her monthly column, September gives literary lovers “plenty of reason(s) to cheer and swoon” with a swag of exciting new releases. Several of these exciting new releases have made it to our bestsellers list.

In crime, there’s a new Jack Reacher tale from Lee Child (Make Me) and a thriller from David Lagercrantz that continues Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy (The Girl in the Spider’s Web). There’s also Larissa Dubecki’s hilarious account of working in the hospitality industry, which our reviewer described as, “the ultimate kiss-and-tell tale from one side of the food chain to the other”.

And here at Readings, we’re particularly delighted that our own Miles Allinson’s debut novel has made our bestsellers list. In his review of the book, publisher of The Lifted Brow Sam Cooney writes, “Allinson is unashamedly a serious writer, in the mould of dark luminaries like Roberto Bolaño, Thomas Bernhard, Robert Walser, and perhaps W.G. Sebald. And Fever of Animals takes itself seriously, like good art should do.”

You can read Cooney’s full review here.