Lian Hingee
Lian Hingee is digital marketing manager at Readings. She’s been working in books for twenty years.
Review — 23 Apr 2023
Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater
If you’ve picked up Death of a Bookseller hoping for a cosy crime read featuring a bespectacled protagonist with a penchant for cardigans, you will be sadly disappointed. If, however…
Review — 27 Mar 2023
The Tea Ladies by Amanda Hampson
It’s 1965. The western world is gripped by anti-communism; Jean Shrimpton has scandalised society by wearing a minidress to the Melbourne Cup; and in Sydney’s Surry Hills garment district, a…
Review — 30 Jan 2023
A Routine Infidelity by Elizabeth Coleman
With the current state of the world right now, it’s no wonder that the cosy crime genre is having a real moment. From Richard Osman’s bestselling Thursday Murder Club series…
Blog post — 23 Nov 2022
Big machine books for little people
If you have a small person in your life, you no doubt have more than a passing knowledge of all things trucks, trains, planes, and automobiles. With Christmas coming, you…
Blog post — 14 Nov 2022
Holiday craft projects to get you in the spirit
We regret to inform you that the holiday season is practically upon us. Christmas displays are going up, Santa grottos are being constructed. If you listen carefully you can hear…
Blog post — 22 Dec 2022
Five Books if you want to learn to sew your own clothes
Growing up in the 80s and 90s I never properly appreciated the home-sewn clothes my mother and grandmother used to make for me. As far as teenage me was concerned…
Review — 26 Apr 2022
Dogger by Shirley Hughes
When I was a child, I had a special teddy called, imaginatively, Ted. Ted went everywhere with me until I lost him, aged 18, at a backpacker hostel in Rome…
Review — 29 Feb 2016
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Like a lot of kids, my first experience of Mary Poppins was of the spit-spot, spoonful-of-sugar,supercalifragilisticexpialidocious variety. I watched the Disney musical religiously, and was infatuated (and impressionable!) enough to…
Review — 3 Apr 2022
Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
Described succinctly as ‘the millenial take on the vampire novel’, Claire Kohda’s debut novel Woman, Eating is both exactly that and so much more. Written in the first person, this…
Review — 30 Mar 2021
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
There’s been a flush of novels based around feminist retellings of ancient myths lately. The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker and A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes depicted…
