Ellen Cregan
Ellen Cregan is a former marketing coordinator for Readings
Review — 25 Feb 2019
Killing Eve: Season 1 by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Some television shows beg to be binged, others are better enjoyed slowly. Killing Eve, painfully for me, is both. As each episode finished, I desperately wanted to hit play…
Review — 29 Jan 2019
Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook by Jacqueline Kent
In 1985, Jacqueline Kent was living in Sydney and working as a freelance book editor. At a dinner party, she met Kenneth Cook, author of classic Australian novel Wake in…
Blog post — 15 Nov 2018
The best pop CDs 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 pop CDs of the year, voted…
Blog post — 18 Oct 2018
Jennifer Down wins the 2018 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
The winner of the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction in 2018 is Pulse Points by Jennifer Down.
The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, now in its fifth…
Blog post — 20 Aug 2018
The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction shortlist 2018
Congratulations to the six authors shortlisted for The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2018. Now in its fifth year, the prize recognises exceptional new contributions to local literature.
Over…
Review — 19 Aug 2018
Wintering by Krissy Kneen
Jessica is a PhD candidate living in southernmost Tasmania, studying the activity of the glow worms that inhabit Winter Cave, an untouched haven she discovered herself. Aside from study and…
Review — 24 Jun 2018
Sculptor by Luluc
Australian indie-folk duo Luluc’s third studio album, Sculptor, is laid-back indie-folk in the vein of artists like Nick Drake, Angus and Julia Stone, and Sufjan Stevens. Randell and Hassett’s…
Review — 22 Jul 2018
Inappropriation by Lexi Freiman
Ziggy Klein is fifteen years old, and has just left her comfortable, Jewish high school for the chaos of the uber prestigious Kandara Girls School, where Sydney’s elite send their…
Review — 24 Sep 2017
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Imagine living in a world where every act you undertake is politicised, against your will. For some readers, this will be a reality. Kamila Shamsie’s latest novel, Home Fire…
Review — 29 May 2017
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
It’s unusual to come across a novel that makes you feel like you are part of a world, and simultaneously totally ignorant of every aspect of that world. This paradox…
