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Nikolai the Perfect

Saturday, 26 September 2020
While post-communist Moscow deals with political transition, Vassili is descending into despair at his wife Anna’s chronic infertility. Following his father Sergey’s footsteps, he travels to Melbourne to teach Russian...

The Place Between

Saturday, 26 September 2020
Sarah used to know who she was—a doctor, a wife, a mother—but as she prepares for the birth of her second child, she feels set adrift from the life she...

Wolfred

Saturday, 26 September 2020
A mesmerising new story about Wolfred, an endearing elevator operator, from the beloved author of the best-selling ‘Very Cranky Bear’ books. Fancy Pants Tower is the biggest, shiniest building in...

Dog (Shaun Tan, A&U) 

Wednesday, 23 September 2020
This is Shaun Tan doing what he does best. Carrying an elegant tension between joy and sadness, Dog left me in a puddle of emotion. The prose poetry traces the...

We Are Wolves (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books) 

Wednesday, 23 September 2020
In We Are Wolves, middle-grade author Katrina Nannestad, creator of the ‘Olive of Groves’ and ‘Girl, the Dog and the Writer’ series, moves confidently into more sombre territory with the...

Bestsellers: New ‘Dog Man’ takes top spot 

Monday, 21 September 2020
After spending a week in the top spot, Yotam Ottolenghi's new cookbook has slipped to number two, replaced by Dav Pilkey's latest 'Dog Man' children's graphic novel, Grime and Punishment....

Bestsellers: New Ottolenghi debuts at number one 

Monday, 14 September 2020
Yotam Ottolenghi's new cookbook has debuted at number one on the Australian bestsellers chart, trailed by Dav Pilkey's latest 'Dog Man' children's graphic novel at number two. This week's top...

Bestsellers: 100-year-old Jaku reaches number one 

Monday, 7 September 2020
The Happiest Man on Earth, the memoir by 100-year-old Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku, has reached number one on the Australian bestsellers chart five weeks after debuting at number one on...

Infinite Splendours (Sofie Laguna, A&U) 

Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Miles Franklin–winner Sofie Laguna’s fourth novel tells the story of Lawrence, a boy from a small western Victorian town near the Southern Grampians mountain range. Lawrence has a special, spiritual...

Bestsellers: ‘Midnight Sun’ debuts at number one 

Monday, 17 August 2020
Stephenie Meyer's highly anticipated novel Midnight Sun—which tells the story of Meyer's 'Twilight' saga from the perspective of vampire protagonist Edward—has debuted at number one on the Australian bestseller chart, selling...

Bestsellers: Latest Robotham debuts at number two 

Monday, 10 August 2020
As Bluey: Big Backyard spends its third consecutive week at the top of the Australian bestsellers chart, Michael Robotham's latest thriller is this week's highest new entry, making its debut...

Bindi (Kirli Saunders, illus by Dub Leffler, Magabala) 

Wednesday, 5 August 2020
Multi–award winning author and poet Kirli Saunders turns her talent to junior fiction with this wonderfully engaging verse novel, which won the inaugural WA Premier’s Daisy Utemorrah Award. Eleven-year-old Bindi...

Bestsellers: ‘The Yield’ cracks top 10 

Monday, 3 August 2020
Bluey: Big Backyard is spending its second consecutive week at number one on the Australian bestsellers chart, while Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's Women and Leadership has moved up one spot...

Bestsellers: Walliams takes top spot from Bluey 

Monday, 20 July 2020
After a month of Bluey titles in the top spot on the bestsellers chart, David Walliams' The World's Worst Parents has climbed its way to number one. Walliams' middle-grade novel...

Bestsellers: Third Wolf Girl novel debuts at number two 

Monday, 13 July 2020
With school holidays in full swing in many states, and lockdown restrictions tightening in Melbourne, children's books are dominating this week's bestsellers chart. Bluey colouring book Big Backyard is spending...

Fly on the Wall (Remy Lai, Walker) 

Wednesday, 8 July 2020
When Henry Khoo isn’t trolling his school as anonymous cartoonist ‘Fly on the Wall’, he is being babied at home by an overprotective family. To correct this, Henry devises a...

The Mother Fault (Kate Mildenhall, S&S) 

Wednesday, 1 July 2020
This gripping and thoughtful novel offers a spine-tingling vision of a future Australia—eerie in its potential realism—in which citizens’ movements are tracked and climate change has decimated the country, flooding...

Bestsellers: Five Bluey titles in top 10 

Monday, 22 June 2020
It's been a big week for Bluey. As Puffin announced that the series has sold over 1 million copies, the latest Bluey board book, All About Bluey, which debuted in...

Bestsellers: New Connelly thriller at number one 

Monday, 15 June 2020
Despite fierce competition from the latest 'Hunger Games' novel and two new Bluey titles debuting in the top 10 this week, Michael Connelly's adult thriller Fair Warning has climbed its...