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8/16/2017

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young Australians’ and ‘encourage a sense of responsibility for our natural world’. The winning titles were chosen from shortlists announced in June . For more information, click here . Australian bestsellers in July: McInerney, Pape top fiction, nonfiction charts While Liane Moriarty continues to dominate the Australian fiction bestsellers chart in July, with five titles in the top 10, Monica McInerney’s The Trip of a Lifetime (Michael Joseph) and Michael Robotham’s The Secrets She Keeps (Hachette) have debuted in the monthly chart in first and second place, respectively. Two crime fiction debuts—Jane Harper’s The Dry (Pan) and Mark Brandi’s Wimmera (Hachette)—and Nicole Alexander’s rural romance An Uncommon Woman (Bantam) round out the Australian fiction top 10. While Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor (Wrightbooks) remains at the top of the Australian nonfiction bestsellers chart for July, two true crime titles have entered the chart in second and third place: Australian underworld figure John Ibrahim’s autobiography Last King of the Cross (Macmillan) and James Phelps’ account of women’s prison life in Australia, Green is the New Black (Ebury). Five of the top 10 titles are recipe/dieting books: The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet (Grant Brinkworth & Pennie Taylor, Macmillan); make-up artist Bernadette Fisers’ The Little Book of Big Weightloss (Penguin); cooking show host Justine Schofield’s Simple Every Day (Plum); and two slow cooker recipe books. Sarah Wilson’s First, We Make the Beast Beautiful (Macmillan) has held on to the fifth spot in the July chart, while Jamila Rizvi’s Not Just 1. The Trip of a Lifetime (Monica McInerney, Michael Joseph) 2. The Secrets She Keeps (Michael Robotham, Hachette) 3. Truly Madly Guilty (Liane Moriarty, Pan) 4. Big Little Lies regular and TV tie-in editions (Liane Moriarty, Pan) 5. The Husband’s Secret (Liane Moriarty, Pan) 6. The Dry (Jane Harper, Pan) 7. Wimmera (Mark Brandi, Hachette) 8. The Last Anniversary (Liane Moriarty, Pan) Lucky (Viking) has debuted in 10th spot. Australian fiction bestsellers: July

9. The Hypnotist’s Love Story (Liane Moriarty, Pan) 10. An Uncommon Woman (Nicole Alexander, Bantam)

Australian nonfiction bestsellers: July

1. The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, Wrightbooks) 2. Last King of the Cross (John Ibrahim, Macmillan) 3. Green Is the New Black (James Phelps, Ebury) 4. The CSIRO Low-Carb Diet (Grant Brinkworth & Pennie Taylor, Macmillan) 5. First, We Make the Beast Beautiful (Sarah Wilson, Macmillan) 6. The Little Book of Big Weightloss (Bernadette Fisers, Penguin) 7. Slow Cooker Central Super Savers (Paulene Christie, ABC Books) 8. Simple Every Day (Justine Schofield, Plum)

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