The top 10 sales lists recorded every week at Unity Books\u2019 stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.<\/p>\n
AUCKLAND<\/p>\n
1 Invisible Intelligence: Why Your Child Might Not Be Failing<\/a> by Welby Ings (Otago University Press, $45)<\/p>\n Highly educated Professor Ings hated school. He was always put in the problem class and was eventually kicked out of high school. His latest book looks at the problematic ways in which we define intelligence and how that leads to kids being labelled \u201cdumb\u201d when they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n 2 Butter<\/a>\u00a0by Asako Yuzuki (Fourth Estate, $35)<\/p>\n Books are better value for money than butter.<\/p>\n 3 Raising Hare<\/a>\u00a0by Chloe Dalton (Canongate, $28)<\/p>\n A beautiful, and bestselling memoir about Dalton\u2019s relationship with a rescue baby hare and how the long-eared creature changed her life.<\/p>\n 4 A Different Kind of Power<\/a> by Jacinda Ardern (Penguin, $60)<\/p>\n New Zealand\u2019s most successful political memoir? At least in terms of sales?<\/p>\n Fresh fiction! Here\u2019s the blurb: \u201cBo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he\u2019s got left; his body is failing him and his quiet existence is only broken up by the daily visits from his home care team. His hands soon too weak to open the precious jar housing the scarf of his Alzheimer-stricken wife Frederika, which still bears her scent. Fortunately he still has his beloved elkhound Sixten for company, only now his son insists upon taking the dog away. The very same son that Bo is wanting to mend his relationship with before his time is up. The threat of losing Sixten stirs up a whirlwind of emotions that make him look back at his life, his fatherhood and the way he expresses his love.\u201d<\/p>\n 6 The Safe Keep<\/a> by Yael van der Wouden (Penguin, $26)\u00a0<\/p>\n Exquisitely wrought historical fiction that brings the past to life.<\/p>\n 7 The Talented Mr Ripley<\/a>\u00a0by Patricia Highsmith (Arrow Books, $26)<\/p>\n A killer classic.<\/p>\n 8 Conversations on Love<\/a> by Natasha Lunn (Viking Penguin, $26)<\/p>\n A collection of conversations with people named Candice and Dolly and Alain and Esther on the various states of love.<\/p>\n 9 James<\/a>\u00a0by Percival Everett (Picador, $27)<\/p>\n The Huck Finn retelling that\u2019s taken over the world.<\/p>\n 10 A Beautiful Family<\/a> by Jennifer Trevelyan (Allen & Unwin, $37)<\/p>\n The kind of novel you need on a long haul flight: absorbing. Read a review on The Spinoff, right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n WELLINGTON<\/p>\n 1 M<\/a>\u0101tauranga M\u0101ori<\/a> by Hirini Moko Mead (Huia Publishers, $45)<\/p>\n Mead\u2019s earlier book, Tikanga M\u0101ori, was a bestseller and now, too, is this latest one.<\/p>\n 2 Invisible Intelligence: Why Your Child Might Not Be Failing<\/a> by Welby Ings (Otago University Press, $45)<\/p>\n 3 Secret Art Powers<\/a> by Jo Randerson (Barbarian Productions, $35)<\/p>\n One of Aotearoa\u2019s most interesting and acclaimed theatre makers and writers, Jo Randerson, has created an absolute asset for anyone interested in creative thinking. Secret Art Powers draws on Randerson\u2019s extensive experience in art for social change to reveal what creative thinking really does and how it really can be used to respond to problems both big and small. Art powers include Lies, Multiplicity, Fluidity and Imagination. The production is exquisite, too: with brilliant illustrations and superb design by Sarah Maxey.<\/p>\n 4 No, I Don\u2019t Get Danger Money<\/a> by Lisette Reymer (Allen & Unwin, $38)<\/p>\n A superbly entertaining memoir from journalist Lisette Reymer who recently starred in The Spinoff\u2019s My Life in TV<\/a> column.<\/p>\n 5 The Book of Guilt<\/a> by Catherine Chidgey (Te Herenga Waka University Press, $38)<\/p>\n \u201cTerrifically compelling,\u201d says The Spinoff\u2019s review, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 6 A Different Kind of Power<\/a> by Jacinda Ardern (Penguin, $60)<\/p>\n 7 Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century<\/a>\u00a0by Steve Braunias (Allen & Unwin, $38)\u00a0<\/p>\n True crime.<\/p>\n 8 James <\/a>by Percival Everett (Picador, $27)<\/p>\n 9 Men in Love<\/a> by Irvine Welsh (Jonathan Cape, $38)<\/p>\n The sequel to Trainspotting.<\/p>\n