Andrew McDonald

Andrew McDonald is a former manager of Readings online. He is the author of the Real Pigeons series for children.

Blog post — 29 Aug 2012

Indigenous Australian Fiction Comes to McSweeney's

The latest issue of

The publication of a new edition of McSweeney’s – the quarterly journal produced by Dave Eggers’s indie publishing house in the US – is always a…

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Blog post — 6 Aug 2012

New RAF features new novella from Melina Marchetta

Melina Marchetta returns to the world of

Attention Melina Marchetta fans!

The superstar of Australian YA has contributed a brand new, never-before-published story called ‘Ferragost’ to the latest issue of…

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Blog post — 5 Mar 2012

Q&A with Leanne Hall, author of Queen of the Night

Young Adult author - and Readings’ own - Leanne Hall talks to Andrew McDonald about

Queen of the Night

I thought I was writing a stand-alone book with*This Is Shyness*…

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Review — 6 Feb 2012

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler isn’t quite as famous as Lemony Snicket. The Unfortunate Series of Events series catapulted the Snicket name into the upper-echelons of literary stardom. The series became one of…

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