BESTSELLERS & NEW RELEASES
Here’s a selection of some of our bestsellers in a variety of genres. For more more information about the availability of these titles, or any other books, please contact your local BOOK FACE store.
our bestsellers
Flesh by David Szalay
Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. He soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother’s age – as his only companion. As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London’s super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.
A$34.99
Last One Out by Jane Harper
In a dying town, Ro Crowley waits for her son on the evening of his 21st birthday.
But Sam never comes home. His footprints in the dust of three abandoned houses offer the only clue to his final movements. One set in. One set out.
Five long years later, Ro returns to Carralon Ridge for the annual memorial of Sam's disappearance. Ro still wants answers. Only a few people remain. If the truth is to be found in that town, does it lie among them?
A$34.99
Gravity Let Me Go by Trent Dalton
Noah Cork has just published the scoop of a lifetime: a white-hot true-crime book about the cold-blooded killer who slipped an unfolding murder mystery into his mailbox. But if this is his moment of triumph, then why is the tin roof being ripped from the walls of his reality? And why does his wife keep writing a cryptic message across the bathroom mirror? Noah is hurtling headfirst into a swirling storm of secrets. He must now cling for dear life to the only story that ever really mattered. He must hold on to the truth. He must hold on to the story. He must hold on to love.
A$34.99
Big Jim Believes Dog Man 14 by Dav Pilkey
The celebration comes to a halt for our heroes in Dog Man: Big Jim Believes when the mischievous Space Cuties From Space return. Our caped crusaders -- Dog Man (aka Scarlet Shedder), Commander Cupcake, and Sprinkles -- along with Mecha Molly discover that the city has changed, and nothing is how it should be. Can Big Jim's positivity and innocence help our heroes?
A$23.99
Partypooper: Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
It’s Greg’s birthday—and you’re invited to the chaos. In Partypooper, the 20th book in Jeff Kinney’s global smash-hit Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Greg Heffley is planning the ultimate party—for himself. But when the guest list grows, the decorations flop, and the surprises backfire, this birthday bash turns into a total blowout—just not the kind Greg had in mind.
A$14.99
Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Daughter. Prisoner. Survivor. Warrior. Nobody's Girl... This is Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s last word.
In 2011, Virginia hit the headlines as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most outspoken victim: the woman whose decision to speak out helped send both serial abusers to prison and whose photograph with Prince Andrew catalyzed his fall from grace. But first and foremost she became known as a voice of courage and resilience for women everywhere.
A$36.99
The Mushroom Tapes by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein
In July 2023, Erin Patterson—stay-at-home mother and true-crime devotee—invited her husband’s devoutly Christian family to lunch. Within days, three of her guests were dead and the fourth was in a coma. They had all been poisoned by death cap mushrooms.
Three renowned writersTogether, they joined the daily media scrum at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts and spent long days immersed in the case’s sinister and complex themes: love, hate, jealousy, revenge, marriage, money, mycology and murder.
A$36.99
Quarterly Essay 100 by Sean Kelly
In Quarterly Essay 100, Sean Kelly considers the enigma of the Albanese government. With wide yet shallow support, will it change the country? Does it have big ideas, or is it content just to become "the natural party of government"?
A$29.99
Australia: A history by Tony Abbott
This book is intended to give anyone interested - as every Australian should be - an account of our past that's positive, while not oblivious to our mistakes and imperfections as a nation. If to be an Australian is still to have won the lottery of life, the history that's produced us is surely something to savour.
A$49.99
Earthquake by Niki Savva
In her highly popular columns, Niki Savva captures Labor’s landslide victory and more in her typically uncompromising, penetrating, and prescient way. She provides a detailed, considered analysis of what went on behind the scenes, accompanied by her trademark access to important players and eyewitnesses, of an election that transformed Australian politics.
A$36.99