The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending June 12

The top 10 sales lists recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.

AUCKLAND

3 Nova by Tim Corballis (Te Herenga Waka University Press, $38)

Brand new this week from THWUP, Nova is described as “a genre-defying novel that imagines a future in which people and their worlds talk to each other”. Todd Atticus, who also did the cover for The Valley, is on a hell of a tear at the moment and has knocked it out of the park once again with this one.

4 Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout (Viking Penguin, $38)

A new set of characters (no Olive Kitteridge this time) but very much the same old Strout, thankfully.

5 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (Fourth Estate, $37)

6 Whistler by Ann Patchett (Bloomsbury UK, $39)

“The loveliest of summer gifts”, former Washington Post literary critic Ron Charles wrote from the Northern Hemisphere in his review of the new Patchett. Also pretty good in winter, it seems.

7 All Her Lives: Nine Stories by Ingrid Horrocks (Te Herenga Waka University Press, $35)

8 Stakes: A Memoir by Noelle McCarthy (Penguin, $40)

9 Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ (Scribe Pubs Pty, $38)

10 London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe (Picador, $40)

Good chat with the author about London Falling and life in general on this podcast.