2018 is coming to a close and we’d like to take a moment to express our gratitude to all of you have supported us during these past 12 months.

Thank you to everyone who has dropped by one of our shops, attended one of our events (or visited us at a festival or conference), flicked through a copy of the Readings Monthly, donated to the Readings Foundation, read our blog, chatted with us online, listened…

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Our staff share the books they’re planning to read over summer.

‘As I’ll be spending Christmas overseas (and leading on from reading Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time Of Gifts in anticipation) I will be packing Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Between The Woods And The Water, among other things, to accompany me. The second volume documenting his incredible journey on foot from Amsterdam to Constantinople, we pick up in Budapest, where we left the young Fermor wondering at what awaited him…

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Our staff share their literary resolutions for the new year.

‘My resolution for the New Year is simply to read more books – irrespective of genre. This past year I feel my balance of reading to TV watching has been slightly skewed the wrong way and I’m vowing to change that in 2019. There is so much to catch up on – I can’t wait.’

– Judi Mitchell

‘As a generally staunch fiction reader, I need to launch into more…

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The Readings Podcast is a celebration of books, reading and pop culture. Episodes are published fortnightly and include author interviews, event recordings, booksellers chatting about their favourite reads, industry insights, and more. You can listen to episodes via SoundCloud and iTunes.

Our 2019 season of the Readings Podcast will kick off again in mid-January. In the meantime, here is a snapshot of some of our highlights from the 2018 season to see you through the holidays.

An interview with…

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Drop by Readings this week or weekend to pick up all of your last-minute Christmas shopping needs. Our shops are open all the way up to Christmas Eve, and you can find their opening hours and contact information here.

You’ll also find plenty of gift-giving suggestions here and don’t forget that we offer gift vouchers for use in-store and online.

All photographs are from our digital marketing manager, Lian Hingee.

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Over the last few weeks, we’ve been compiling a host of gift guides to help you with your Christmas shopping. While our online shopping deadline has passed, our seven brick and mortar shops are open all the way up to Christmas Eve and our knowledgeable booksellers are on hand to answer all your tricky gift-giving questions.

If you’re short on time, we’ve also compiled a list of last-minute emergency gift ideas below. (And don’t forget – we also offer gift…

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Becoming by Michelle Obama

Ottolenghi SIMPLE by Yotam Ottolenghi

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales

Milkman by Anna Burns

The Lost Man by Jane Harper

The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

No Friend But the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani (translated by Omid Tofighian)

Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak

Non-fiction is dominating our bestseller list in the final week before Christmas with Michelle Obama’s intimate memoir Becoming at the top of…

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All the Ways to be Smart by Allison Colpoys & Davina Bell

The Ice Monster by David Walliams & Tony Ross

Lenny’s Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee

The Tales of Mr Walker by Jess Black & Sara Acton

The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 13) by Jeff Kinney

A Winter’s Promise (The Mirror Visitor Book 1) by Christelle Dabos (translated by Hildegarde Serle)

Real Pigeons Fight Crime (Book 1) by Andrew McDonald & Ben Wood

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Over the past few weeks, we’ve been compiling a host of gift guides to help you with your Christmas shopping.

If you’re hoping to use this gift-giving opportunity as a way to persuade and inspire your friends and family to your own superior way of thinking, this is the guide for you.

For the person who keeps killing houseplants…

Try… Handmade Houseplants by Corrie Beth Hogg & Christine Han

For the person who annoyingly thrives in hot weather…

Try… The…

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Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.

Bronte Coates is reading Camille Perri & Katherine Heiny

It is that time of the year where everyone shares their end-of-year wrap-ups and the internet is flooded with recommendations for approximately one billion books that you missed out on reading this year. After seeing it crop up a few times, I impulsively picked up a…

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