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The best fiction books of 2018
Every year our staff vote for their favourite books, albums, films and TV shows of the past 12 months. Here are our top 10 fiction books of the year, voted for by Readings’ staff, and displayed in no particular order.
(You can find all our best picks for books, CDs & DVDs of 2018 here.)
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
Kerry Salter is on the run so plans a quick pit stop back home in Bundjalung country –…
The best DVDs of 2018
Every year our staff vote for their favourite books, albums, films and TV shows of the past 12 months. Here are our top 10 DVDs of the year, voted for by Readings’ staff, and displayed in no particular order.
(You can find all our best picks for books, CDs & DVDs of 2018 here.)
Northern Italy, 1983 – swimming, peaches, long summer days. Luca Guadagnino’s swoony adaptation of André Aciman’s novel is a sensual…
Our 2018 Christmas Gift Guide: What to buy your parents
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be compiling a host of gift guides to help you with your Christmas shopping.
If they’re famous for their cooking…
Yotam Ottolenghi has earned a dedicated following for his fresh, innovative recipes. Ottolenghi SIMPLE is his latest offering and a worthy addition to any keen home cook’s library.
In Eat at the Bar, Bar Lourinhã duo Matt McConnell and Jo Gamvros share their love of Europe’s bar dining culture with a collection of…
The 2018 winners of the National Book Awards
Congratulations to the winners of this year’s National Book Awards.
Fiction
The 2018 winner is The Friend by Sigrid Nunez.
When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog – a huge Great Dane traumatised by the inexplicable disappearance of its master. Isolated from the rest of the world and increasingly obsessed…
The 2018 winners of the Melbourne Prize for Literature & Awards
The winners for the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018 and Awards have been announced.
The $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature 2018 is awarded to a Victorian author whose body of published work has made an outstanding contribution to Australian literature, as well as to cultural and intellectual life.
The winner is Alison Lester!
Lester is of Australia’s most beloved creators of children’s books. In a career spanning more than 30 years and 40 books, she has delighted generations of children…
Our 2018 Christmas Gift Guide: What to buy your children
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be compiling a host of gift guides to help you with your Christmas shopping.
GIFT IDEAS FOR AGES 0-2
For very little babies, you can’t go wrong with a soft, squishy cloth book. The Wee Gallery cloth books are among some of the classiest, and Friendly Faces in the Forest and Friendly Faces at the Farm are adorable.
Flashcards with high-contrast illustrations are also a great choice for babies, and the Baby Zoo and…
The Voss Literary Prize shortlist 2018
The shortlist for the 2018 Voss Literary Prize has been announced.
The shortlisted titles are:
No More Boats by Felicity Castagna
The Last Garden by Eva Hornung
The Choke by Sofie Laguna
Storyland by Catherine McKinnon
The Book of Dirt by Bram Presser
Half Wild by Pip Smith
Launched in 2014, the Voss Literary Prize is awarded to the best novel published in Australia in the previous year, and is dedicated to the memory of historian Vivian Robert Le Vaux…
Our children's & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 13) by Jeff Kinney
Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor Book 2) by Jessica Townsend
All the Ways to be Smart by Allison Colpoys & Davina Bell
Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan
Bonnie and Ben Rhyme Again by Mem Fox & Judy Horacek
The Ice Monster by David Walliams & Tony Ross
Wakestone Hall (Stella Montgomery Book 3) by Judith Rossell
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Special Guest by Annabel Crabb & Wendy Sharpe
The Uncollected Plays of Shaun Micallef by Shaun Micallef
Ottolenghi SIMPLE by Yotam Ottolenghi
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales
Milkman by Anna Burns
Past Tense by Lee Child
The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
Our bestselling books of last week include two cookbooks (Special Guest, Ottolenghi SIMPLE), two much-anticipated crime reads…
Get ready for Christmas in 2018 with Readings
November has arrived and the Christmas cheer is drawing ever-nearer… Let us help make shopping during this year’s festive season as easy and painless as possible!
Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing our curated gift guides, sharing our top 10 best books, CDs and DVDs of the year, and releasing our annual Summer Reading Guide which is always jam-packed with recommendations. We’ll also be sharing a host of one-off offers for our customers, including signed copies…
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