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Bestsellers

1. The Tales of Beedle the Bard J.K. Rowling Bloomsbury
2. Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert Bloomsbury
3. The Brass Verdict Michael Connelly Connelly
4. The Private Patient P.D. James Faber
5. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer Allen & Unwin
6. The Slap Christos Tsiolkas Allen & Unwin
7. Wayne Bennett: The Man in the Mirror Wayne Bennett and Steve Crawley ABC Books
8. delicious: Faking it Valli Little ABC Books
9. A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Bloomsbury
10. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Bloomsbury

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J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels have been prize-winning and consistently on the bestseller lists, and have now sold over 325 million copies worldwide in 64 languages. Her latest book is The Tales of Beedle the Bard (released on 4th December).

November Events

Michael Connelly is touring Australia and New Zealand this month to celebrate the release of his latest bestseller The Brass Verdict. You can also see Christos Tsiolkas, Margaret Throsby, Kerry Greenwood and Maureen McCarthy, among others; for details of all upcoming author events, please visit our events schedule

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Allen & Unwin is one of Australia’s leading independent publishers. We are also the Australian and New Zealand distributors for ABC Books and Audio and BBC Audio, A&C Black, Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber, Granta, Icon Books, Nicholas Brealey and Profile Books. We administer The Australian/Vogel Award and the Iremonger Award.

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Sleeping Around

Brian Thacker

Brian Thacker sets out on a couch surfing tour of the globe to discover how and why dossing on someone's lounge room floor has become the latest, hippest way to travel.

The Messenger of Athens

Anne Zouroudi

Captain Corelli's Mandolin meets Hercule Poirot in this evocative mystery set on a small Greek island.

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An Awkward Truth

Peter Grose

The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement - the attack on Darwin in February, 1942.

Love Junkie

Rachel Resnick

An unflinching memoir of one woman's self-destructive addiction to sex and love.