1. Ghost River by Tony Birch
2. Island Home: A Landscape Memoir by Tim Winton
3. Faction Man: Bill Shorten’s Path to Power (Quarterly Essay 59) by David Marr
4. Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski
5. The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
6. Australia’s Second Chance: What Our History Tells Us About Our Future by George Megalogenis
7. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
8. Nopi: The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Ramael Scully
9. The Age Good Food Guide 2016 edited by Roslyn Grundy
10. Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed by Kendrah Morgan and Lesley Harding

Seven of our ten bestsellers for last week are Australian books.

Leading the charge is Tony Birch with his new novel, Ghost River. Our reviewer writes: “This is a beautiful novel, part coming-of-age story, part history of inner Melbourne.” You can hear Birch discuss his writing at a free event in Carlton next week. Find out more here.

Other Australian bestsellers include: two memoirs by notable Australians (Tim Winton and Magda Szubanski); a biography on John and Sunday Reed (Modern Love); the latest Quarterly Essay by David Marr (Faction Man); an eating-out-guide to Melbourne and throughout Victoria (The Age Good Food Guide 2016); and, a compelling new non-fiction read from George Megalogenis (Australia’s Second Chance: What Our History Tells Us About Our Future).

Our international bestsellers include: Margaret Atwood’s new novel, which absolutely wowed our reviewer (read more here); Ottolenghi’s new cookbook (find a recipe from the cookbook here); and, the first book of Elena Ferrante’s astonishing Neapolitan Novels (here’s a reminder on why you should read her work immediately).