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Love Your Bookshop Day
Love Your Bookshop Day is this Saturday 11 August! To celebrate, we’re offering our customers the chance to win free books for a year. Just follow the three simple steps below.
Step one: Visit one of our seven shops on Saturday 11 August.
Maybe you want to see our newly renovated Carlton shop, or pop into our beautiful Hawthorn shop – and hear from the lead singer of The Seekers, Judith Durham, while you’re there. Take the kids on…
Sneaky picture books about maths concepts
Basic maths concepts form a natural part of many entertaining picture books without young readers even realising that they’re learning. Here, we’ve collected some of our favourite picture books that delve into geometry, counting, arithmetic, volume, measurement and more.
For even more recommendations, check out our picture books about maths concepts collection below.
For tackling shapes and geometry…
Circle Rolls by Barbara Kanninen & Serge Bloch
The characters in this chaotic romp are all anthropomorphic shapes – triangles, rectangles, stars…
Mark Rubbo awarded Emerging Philanthropy Leadership Award
The Creative Partnerships Awards honours leaders from philanthropy, business and the arts for their contribution to Australia’s cultural life. We were thrilled to see Readings’ Managing Director Mark Rubbo named among this year’s winners.
Rubbo was jointly awarded the 2018 Emerging Philanthropy Leadership Award. He shared the award with philanthropist, volunteer and advocate Beau Neilson.
Rubbo was recognised for his contribution to the Wheeler Centre’s Hot Desk Fellowships. Supported by the Readings Foundation, these fellowships include a small stipend…
Our top picks of the month for book clubs
For book clubs that like to discover new voices…
The Wounded Sinner by Gus Henderson
Matthew’s father, Archie, is dying and Matthew must care for him in ‘The Wounded Sinner’, his grand, decaying home. Whilst Matthew is away, Jeanie stays and works as a teacher and looks after their five children. Their eldest is hitting adolescence and is challenging Jeanie’s self-image and sense of identity. Themes of growing old, fidelity and identity run through this unique and gritty novel, in…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Leather Soul by Bob Murphy
The Nowhere Child by Christian White
No Friend But the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani (translated by Omid Tofighian)
Family by Hetty McKinnon
Halliday Wine Companion 2019 by James Halliday
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country by Marcia Langton
Scrublands by Chris Hammer
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Dark Emu (New edition) by Bruce Pascoe
Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Footballer, music buff and Age columnist Bob Murphy tops our bestsellers list from last week with…
Our children's & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
The 104-Storey Treehouse (Book 8) by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton
After the Lights Go Out by Lili Wilkinson
Amelia Westlake by Erin Gough
Cicada by Shaun Tan
Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different by Ben Brooks & Quinton Winter
I Am Out With Lanterns by Emily Gale
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
The Relic of the Blue Dragon (Children of the Dragon Book 1) by Rebecca Lim
What we're reading: Emily Gale, Hannah Richell & Lewis Carroll
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 I Am Out With Lanterns by Emily Gale
This juicy YA novel will grip you from page one. Emily Gale has skilfully brought together the perspectives of multiple characters to create a single cohesive work that investigates the ways in which we misunderstand one another, and sometimes ourselves too. Every one…
The best new crime reads in August
CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
Loose Units by Paul F. Verhoeven
Decades after a youthful Paul Verhoeven inadvertently sees a crime scene photo that he’s never been able to shake, he sits down with his ex-cop father John to find out why. Why he couldn’t shake it, how his father coped with so much worse, and how videogame reviewer and pop-culture nerd Paul veered so much away from the paths of action and danger both of his parents barrelled headfirst…
Win a wine-lovers prize pack valued at over $600
Eagerly anticipated by winemakers, collectors, and afficionados every year, the new edition of the Halliday Wine Companion has arrived!
Buy your copy of the Halliday Wine Companion 2019 from the Readings website before 1 September, 2018 and you’ll automatically be entered into the draw to win a wine-lovers pack valued at over $600. This pack includes a $500 gift voucher for Montalto winery, glassware from Riedel, and a 12-month Wine Companion subscription. The Montalto gift voucher can be used for…
Everything YA in August
Contemporary Australian stories and multiple perspectives sit alongside revisionist fairytales, dystopias and fictional battles for survival in our YA round-up for this month.
You can also find some of our best kids reads of the month here.
YA BOOK OF THE MONTH
I Am Out With Lanterns by Emily Gale
I Am Out With Lanterns weaves together multiple points of view to create a story infused with art and magic. The lives of teenagers Wren, Adie, Milo, Ben, Juliet…
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