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 Seed<\/a> by Elizabeth Easther (Penguin Random House, $38)<\/p>\n \u201cRegardless of whose story is being told, the emotional heart of Seed never stops beating,\u201d writes Tara Ward in The Spinoff<\/a>. \u201cThere were many moments that flashed me back to my own journey to motherhood, to the days when I felt an ache in my arms that would only be eased by holding a baby, or when people made sudden, thoughtless comments about being childless that would send me home early from social events, sobbing in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n 2 Butter<\/a>\u00a0by Asako Yuzuki (Fourth Estate, $35)\u00a0<\/p>\n If there were medals for most appearances on this hallowed chart then Butter would be getting gold.<\/p>\n 3 The<\/a> Correspondent<\/a> by Virginia Evans (Michael Joseph, $38)<\/p>\n \u201cIn her letters to family and friends we come to know the life of Sybil Van Antwerp: stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated, always steadfast in her belief in the power of the written word,\u201d goes the publisher\u2019s blurb for this hugely popular epistolary novel.<\/p>\n \u201cBut as the clock begins to tick for Sybil, the need for a few post-scripts to the life she\u2019s led becomes apparent. Fixing her difficult relationship with her children. Taking a final chance at romance. Atoning for an old legal case which has come back to haunt her. And finally, reckoning with a devastating loss that she has spent the last thirty years holding close to her chest.\u201d<\/p>\n 4 Theo of Golden<\/a> by Allen Levi (HarperCollins, $35)<\/p>\n This strangely sparse cover has a golden circle on that says \u201cinternational bestselling phenomenon\u201d. One way to market a book I guess.<\/p>\n 5 Flesh<\/a> by David Szalay (Vintage, $28)<\/p>\n Catch Szalay at this year\u2019s Auckland Writers Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n 6 Between Two Fires<\/a> by Christopher Buehlman (Hachette, $38)<\/p>\n \u201cThe year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village.\u201d Sign me up.<\/p>\n 7 Heart the Lover<\/a>\u00a0by Lily King (Canongate, $37)<\/p>\n I\u2019d say catch Lily King at the Auckland Writers Festival, too, but looks like this one has sold out<\/a>.<\/p>\n 8 Hooked<\/a>\u00a0by Asako Yuzuki (Fourth Estate, $37)<\/p>\n If you loved Butter, then \u2026<\/p>\n 9 Nonesuch<\/a> by Francis Spufford (Faber & Faber, $38)\u00a0<\/p>\n This novel sounds utterly brilliant and has already had rave reviews over in the UK where it came out a few weeks ago. Here\u2019s a wee snippet from AK Blakemore\u2019s write up in The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cNonesuch is a historical fantasy set during the second world war, every paragraph of which is packed with authorial zest.\u201d<\/p>\n 10 Valencia<\/a>\u00a0by Michelle Tea (Seprents Tail, $28)<\/p>\n April at Unity Books is a fan of this coming-of-age classic (now re-released with a forward by Maggie Nelson): \u201cEpic lesbian chaos! Featuring headspinning debauchery in 1990s San Francisco, heartbreak, and surprising moments of stillness and relatability. Loved it!\u201d<\/p>\n WELLINGTON<\/p>\n 1 Project Hail Mary<\/a> by Andy Weir (Penguin, $28)<\/p>\n How about that time when Mission Control said \u201camaze, amaze, amaze!\u201d<\/a> when speaking to the Artemis II crew.<\/p>\n 2 Mother Mary Comes to Me<\/a> by Arundhati Roy (Hamish Hamilton, $40)<\/p>\n Maybe it\u2019s time for a curated list of book about mothers. That would be quite something.<\/p>\n 3 The<\/a> Correspondent<\/a> by Virginia Evans (Michael Joseph, $38)<\/p>\n 4 Heart the Lover<\/a>\u00a0by Lily King (Canongate, $37)<\/p>\n 5 I Who Have Never Known Men<\/a> by Jacqueline Harpman (Vintage, $33)<\/p>\n Does anyone else go off dystopias a bit when you\u2019re increasingly sure you\u2019re living in one?<\/p>\n 6 Mr Ward\u2019s Map: Victorian Wellington Street<\/a> by Street by Elizabeth Cox (Massey University Press, $90)<\/p>\n Welcome back, Mr Ward!<\/p>\n 7 The Book of Guilt<\/a> by Catherine Chidgey (Te Herenga Waka University Press, $28)<\/p>\n Welcome back, unsettling yet gripping tale of identical triplets and their three mothers.<\/p>\n 8 Flesh<\/a> by David Szalay (Vintage, $28)<\/p>\n 9 Glyph<\/a> by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton, $45)<\/p>\n \u201cIn a chiaroscuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, Glyph asks if we\u2019re attending to the history that\u2019s made us and to the history we\u2019re making. A funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, Glyph is about what our imaginations are for and how, in a broken, brutal and divided time, we rekindle care, solidarity, resistance and openness.<\/p>\n This anti-war novel, Ali Smith\u2019s most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world.\u201d<\/p>\n This sounds more like it.<\/p>\n 10 The World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness<\/a> by Michael Pollan (Allen Lane, $45)<\/p>\n \u201cMuch of Pollan\u2019s book reminded me of Siri Hustvedt\u2019s brilliant 2016 extended essay, The Delusions of Certainty<\/a>, a lucid critique of scientific reductionism,\u201d says Edward Postnett in his review of Pollan\u2019s latest.<\/a> \u201cLike that work, Pollan\u2019s book attempts to disentangle the ideas we have inherited about our own minds, an inheritance of which we are not even aware.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top 10 sales lists recorded every week at Unity Books\u2019 stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69,21474],"class_list":{"0":"post-373862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-unity-best-sellers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}