Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Jonathan Pearlman
Nationalism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism have been rising in Europe. Will this illiberal turn be exacerbated by COVID-19?
Available to order, ships in 3-5 daysAvailable to order
This issue of The Jewish Quarterly examines the current generation of leading American Jewish writers as they grapple with challenges facing Jewish America today, including its relationship with religion, Israel…
Marina Benjamin
An intense, lyrical, witty, and humane exploration of a state we too often consider only superficially.
In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean? How should a fifty-something be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth, and experience?
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
The devastating rediscovered classic written from the horrors of Nazi Germany, as one Jewish man attempts to flee persecution in the wake of Kristallnacht.
Danielle Celermajer
Stories written in the shadow of the bushfires that ravaged Australia.
In stock at 3 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 3 shops
Peter Doherty
The extraordinary travel tales of an eminent scientist
Lisa Emanuel
Intelligent, unusual and gripping, The Covered Wife is the debut novel of Sydney author Lisa Emanuel. This captivating story takes us from a seemingly perfect marriage deep into a closed…
Ashley Goldberg
A compelling and compassionate debut about friendship, faith, family and identity.
Andrea Goldsmith
Knowing what you want is hard. Accepting what is possible is harder still.
In stock at 2 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 2 shops
A novel about memory, music, friendship, family rifts and reconciliation, this is an intelligent, compelling read set in Melbourne.
David Grossman, Jessica Cohen (trans.)
Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry - and all…
Gideon Haigh
H. V. ‘Doc’ Evatt has long been obscured by Menzies’s broad shadow, as the Labor Opposition Leader through the prosperous and complacent 1950s. In this book, one of our finest…
In stock at 4 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 4 shops
Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office’s final triumph?
Karen Hitchcock
In this short, powerful book, Karen Hitchcock shines a light on ageism in our society
First published in 1996, HEAT is a literary journal dedicated to publishing Australian and overseas writers of the highest quality.
Dr Karen Hitchcock takes us to the frontlines of everyday treatment, turning her acute gaze to everything from the flu season to dementia, plastic surgery to the humble sick day
Howard Jacobson
A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl…
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
Howard Jacobson’s funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer
Lee Kofman
In this compelling anthology of personal essays, curated by award-winning author Lee Kofman, some of Australia’s most beloved writers reveal, for the first time, powerful, occasionally funny and often heartbreaking…
Available to order, ships in 10-14 daysAvailable to order
The Writer Laid Bare is a book for everyone who loves the craft of good writing. Be they a voracious reader wanting to know more or an emerging writer themselves
Sarah Krasnostein
How can we mend Australia’s broken mental health system?
The second book by the bestselling, award-winning author of The Trauma Cleaner. With her trademark compassion, observational rigour and unique humanity, Sarah Krasnostein takes us into the lives of…
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife…
In stock at 7 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 7 shops
Bram Presser
An extraordinary and absorbing novelisation of one family’s tale of Holocaust survival and a grandson’s unrelenting dedication to ensuring his ancestor’s stories will never be forgotten, is now available in…
Daniel Sherrell
From a millennial climate activist, an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe
Natasha Sholl
This is a book for anyone who has ever loved someone who has died. Or who has ever loved someone. Because grief is the language of love, after all.
Available to order, ships in 5-9 daysAvailable to order
Margaret Simons
A revelatory portrait of one of the most talented, poised and respected women in Australian politics, written by one of Australia’s foremost biographers.
Dr Norman Swan
Informative, accessible and easy to understand, So You Think You Know What’s Good for You? has everything you need to know about health and wellbeing, delivered with Dr Norman Swan’s…
Tjanara Goreng Goreng
This is a memoir of an Aboriginal woman, Tjanara Goreng Goreng, who began life without any of the advantages of her fellow non-Indigenous Australians except for grit, humour and diverse…
Julie Szego
In the style of literary non-fiction comes a compelling, true story that will appeal to mystery, crime and “CSI” aficionados and anyone interested in justice for all in the midst…
Simon Tedeschi
A beautiful work of the imagination, straddling history, memory, trauma and testimony
Maria Tumarkin
Janet Malcolm meets The Empathy Exams in a genre-bending work on how people understand the traumas they inherit.
Maria Tumarkin travels with her Australian-born teenage daughter, Billie, back to Russia and Ukraine to have her experience first-hand the seismic shifts of her family’s native country. For Maria the…
Alice Zaslavsky (Author)
Culinary correspondent Alice Zaslavsky’s first book for young foodies takes readers on an edible adventure; packed with delicious facts, clever cooking tips and kid-approved recipes.
Alice Zaslavsky
A joyous must-have vegetable companion for the vegetarian or simply veg-forward
In stock at 8 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 8 shops
