Alan Frost gives his account of the beginnings of modern Australia in Botany Bay (Black Inc.). Frost goes beyond the conventional story of Australia as a dumping ground for Britain’s criminals to shed new light on the decision to settle, by examining politicians who made the decision, and the Empire’s larger commercial and military needs. Also appearing on the most mentioned chart is John Zeaman’s Dog Walks Man: A Six-legged Odyssey (Orbit), Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (Hamlyn), Julie Maree Wood’s The Complete Food Makeover (ABC Books) and Life’s Little Detours (Regina Brett, Orion)–Media Extra.
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Most mentioned this week
Posted: 17 January 2011 at 11:25 am
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Bestsellers this week
Posted: 13 January 2011 at 12:33 pm
Last Sacrifice (Rachel Mead, Razorbill), the sixth and final book in the ‘Vampire Academy’ series, tops the Nielsen BookScan bestsellers chart this week followed by The Ugly Truth: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney, Puffin) in second place. Steig Larrson’s novels The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Quercus) are in third and fourth place on the bestsellers chart. First on the highest new entries chart is James Patterson’s latest detective novel Tick, Tock (Century) followed by Lauren Oliver’s Before I Fall (Hachette). Paranormal themed Young Adult novels take the top spots on the fastest movers chart with Paranormalcy (Kiersten White, HarperCollins) in first place followed by Stargazer (Claudia Gray, HarperCollins), the second book in the ‘Evernight’ series, in second place–Weekly Book Newsletter.
