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Top Ten Best Sellers
Listed below are this weeks top ten books sold at Thesaurus Booksellers, Brighton, Victoria
	Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind - until he turns up at the store where she works part-time. He invites her for dinner, and soon they are on a passionate journey which will take them to places they never imagined... Romantic, page-turning and hugely liberating, Fifty Shades of Grey is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever. In Store Price: $17.95 Online Price: $17.05
	The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman This is a story of right and wrong, and how sometimes they look the same. 1926: Tom Sherbourne is a young lighthouse keeper on a remote island off Western Australia. The only inhabitants of Janus Rock, he and his wife Isabel live a quiet life, cocooned from the rest of the world. One April morning a boat washes ashore carrying a dead man and a crying infant - and the path of the couple's lives hits an unthinkable crossroads. Only years later do they discover the devastating consequences of the decision they made that day - as the baby's real story unfolds. In Store Price: $32.95 Online Price: $31.30
	True North by Brenda Niall Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the 1880s and setting up four vast cattle stations in the remote north. A year spent together on the stations in their early twenties ignited in the sisters a lifelong love of the Kimberley, along with a growing unease about the situation of the Aboriginal people employed there. Through war, love affairs, children and eventual old age, the Duracks continued to write and paint - their closely intertwined creative lives always shaped by the enduring power of the Kimberley region. With unprecedented access to hundreds of private family letters, unpublished memoirs, diaries and family papers, Brenda Niall gets to the heart of a uniquely Australian story that spans the twentieth century. In Store Price: $32.95 Online Price: $31.30
	All That I am by Anna Funder "When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The wireless in the living room was turned up loud, but all that drifted down to me were waves of happy cheering, like a football match. It was Monday afternoon..." Ruth Becker, defiant and cantankerous, is living out her days in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. She has made an uneasy peace with the ghosts of her past - and a part of history that has been all but forgotten. Another lifetime away, it's 1939 and the world is going to war. Ernst Toller, self-doubting revolutionary and poet, sits in a New York hotel room settling up the account of his life. When Toller's story arrives on Ruth's doorstep their shared past slips under her defences, and she's right back among them - those friends who predicted the brutality of the Nazis and gave everything they had to stop them. Those who were tested - and in some cases found wanting - in the face of hatred, of art, of love, and of history. Based on real people and events, All That I am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices some people make for their beliefs, and of heroism hidden in the most unexpected places. In Store Price: $22.95 Online Price: $21.80
	Secrets of the Tides by Hannah Richell Every family has its secrets. Some are small, like telling a white lie or snooping through a private drawer. Others are more serious, like infidelity and betrayal. And some secrets are so terrible they must be hidden away in a deep, dark place, for if they ever came to light, they would surely tear a family apart The Tides are a family full of secrets. Returning to Clifftops, the rambling family house perched high on the Dorset coastline, youngest daughter Dora hopes for a fresh start, for herself and the new life she carries. But can long-held secrets ever really be forgiven? And even if you can forgive, can you ever really learn to love again? SECRETS OF THE TIDES is the spellbinding debut from Hannah Richell, a rich and compelling family drama with a dark thread of suspense at its heart. In Store Price: $29.99 Online Price: $28.49
	The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska An Oxford ethnologist, Leonard, travels to Papua in 1968 with his young Dutch wife, Rika, to take up a post at the university, and to further his research by filming the local Papuans in a remote village. Conservative and well-meaning, Leonard wants his camera to capture moments but not to effect any change. But this is Papua at the dawning of Independence and everything is change. Rika forms a close knit circle of friends within the university and the town. Laedi, a hafkast, and wife of the ambitious Don; Martha, a student trying to find her own identity; and Milton, a writer who wants to emulate his hero, the author James Baldwin. But it is the two Papuan brothers Aaron and Jacob, whom Rika is most drawn to. Thirty years later, a young art historian, Jericho, travels from London to Sydney to ask Martha to write the story of his parents and his heritage. Coming home to Papua New Guinea, Jericho finds that he must reconcile his own history with the lure of the Papuan mountains and love. In Store Price: $32.95 Online Price: $31.30
	Dark Secrets by Hans Rosenfeldt & Michael Hjorth "It begins with a call to the police. A fifteen-year-old boy, Roger, has gone missing, and his mother is worried. After a few days of careless delay, the local police department in Vasteras finally starts looking for the boy. Haraldsson - who would really prefer to be at home impregnating his wife - is assigned the task of organising a search. Then a group of scouts makes an awful discovery in a marsh, uncovering the horrific tragedy behind the boy's disappearance. The psychologist Sebastian Bergman, criminal profiler and one of Sweden's top experts on serial killers, is in Vasteras following the death of his mother, to settle her estate. Bergman lost his wife and daughter in the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 and has completely withdrawn from police work over the past few years. He is emotionally cut-off, not coping too well, and has relapsed into sexual addiction. But CID - which has taken over the case - needs his help. Sebastian Bergman finds himself, for the first time in a long while, drawn into a murder investigation. He becomes increasingly involved - but has his own highly personal reasons for wanting access to the police records. All the leads point toward the Palmlov school, the private school Roger attended. On the surface, it is an ideal environment for a young boy, but increasingly cracks begin to appear in its facade" In Store Price: $29.99 Online Price: $28.49
	Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett Harry and Miles live with their father, an abalone fisherman, on the south-east coast of Tasmania. With their mum dead, they are left to look after themselves. When Miles isn't helping out on the boat they explore the coast and Miles and his older brother, Joe, love to surf. Harry is afraid of the water. Everyday their dad battles the unpredictable ocean to make a living. He is a hard man, a bitter drinker who harbours a devastating secret that is destroying him. Unlike Joe, Harry and Miles are too young to leave home and so are forced to live under the dark cloud of their father's mood, trying to stay as invisible as possible whenever he is home. Harry, the youngest, is the most vulnerable and it seems he bears the brunt of his father's anger. In Store Price: $26.99 Online Price: $25.64

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