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
John Hunt,Mueller
This is the true rags-to-riches story of Miss Andretti, the horse from nowhere, bred from nothing, who cost nothing, was originally trained by a nobody and yet conquered the racing…
Available to order, ships in approx 3 weeksAvailable to order
In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs and reveals why the violence that now defines the American-Mexican border…
Christopher Hitchens
A compendium of never-before-collected quotations from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Christopher Hitchens on hundreds of subjects
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
Barbara Eden
Over the past four decades, the landmark television series I Dream of Jeannie has enchanted several generations of fans and inspired millions of teenage crushes on its beautiful blonde star…
Betty White
It-girl Betty White delivers a hilarious, slyly profound take on love, life, celebrity, and everything in between. Drawing from a lifetime of lessons learned, seven-time Emmy winner Betty White’s wit…
Available to order, ships in 3-5 daysAvailable to order
Maggie Alderson
Maggie Alderson, philosopher of fashion and arbiter of style, brings us a collection of her Style Notes column. Find out why men hate shopping and why women love wearing clothes…
Penelope Debelle
Elliott Johnston and his wife became Communists in 1941 and he resigned only to join the South Australian Supreme Court Bench. His appointment as Queen’s Counsel was the highest public…
Available to order, ships in 10-14 daysAvailable to order
William Cull,Aaron Pegram
This is Bill Cull’s unforgettable story of his experiences in WW1: he fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front where he was captured by the Germans and was a…
Tracy Kidder
One man’s fight to save lives in Haiti and everywhere.
In stock at 2 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 2 shops
Linda Grant
‘A skilful, moving, even humorous book. It is more than an elegy for a lost mother or the charting of one human being’s decline . It is an investigation of…
John Elder Robison
Endearing stories and actionable advice that will help Aspergians, and even ordinary geeks, embrace being different and work on the things that hold them back in life. With his usual…
Andre Dubus III
Won Book of the Year Adult Non-Fiction-2012 Indie Choice Awards Amazon Best Book of the Month February 2011 An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that…
Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order
Yoram Gross
Yoram Gross’ recollections of his life, told simply and directly, cannot be read without emotion. This is the story of a youth who was forced to grow up during the…
Available to order, ships in 5-9 daysAvailable to order
Edmund De Waal
264 wood and ivory carvings of animals, plants and people, none of them larger than a matchbox; apprentice potter Edmund de Waal was entranced by the collection when he first…
In stock at 6 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 6 shops
Kitty Kelley
The first complete portrait of one of the most influential, powerful, and admired public figures of our time - the international talk show queen revealed as never before.
Professor Michael Scammell
From award-winning author Michael Scammell comes the first authorized biography of Arthur Koestler.
Betty Churcher
In this gorgeously illustrated book, join Betty Churcher on a personal tour of her most beloved works, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Velazquez, Courbet, Vermeer and Cezanne. A trained…
Angela Di Sciascio
Angela Di Sciascio’s father can no longer describe his past, lost in a world ravaged by Alzheimer’s disease. Deciding not to let his story fade, Angela embarks on a voyage…
Nichola Garvey
Alan Tripp, a man some call a genius and others call a criminal, became the world’s most successful private bookmaker. He was Australia’s most convicted SP bookmaker and was the…
Robert Morrison
Definitive life of the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, journalist, political commentator and biographer.
Joan Schenkar
Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favourite hero-criminal, the talented Tom Ripley. The author…
Margaux Fragoso
I still think about Peter, the man I loved most in the world, all the time. We were friends, soul mates and lovers. I was seven. He was fifty-one.
Kasey Edwards
When Kasey Edwards discovers she’ll be infertile within a year, she is forced to dig the baby issue out of the too-hard basket. She explores what motherhood would mean to…
David Walker
Spurred on by his encroaching blindness, prominent historian David Walker’s Not Dark Yet is a frank, witty and innovative memoir that connects the small, seemingly inconsequential events of daily life…
Alexander June
A Girl Called Tim as a memoir is a shocking account of a rural Australian childhood, but also a heartfelt chronicle of living with a mental illness, abuse, rejection, love…
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester turns his unrivaled talents to revealing the significance of the intriguing photograph whose subject inspired Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Martin Plowman
A funny, weird and hugely entertaining memoir of travelling around the world in search of UFO landing sights, UFO believers and abductees.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris - a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, she watches a wild…
High-profile Australians including children’s author Mem Fox, comedian Anh Do, retired Chief Justice Michael Kirby, broadcaster Alan Jones and The Chasers’ Julian Morrow, along with contributors from all walks of…
Suzanne Falkiner
Enlisted in 1910 by a Cambridge University sponsored expedition of Western Australia, Grant Watson served as biologist and research aide to celebrated anthropologists A R Brown and Daisy Bates, recording…
Sarah Palin
Celebrates the strengths and virtues that have made the United States great. This book ranges widely over American history, culture, and current affairs, and reflects on the key values -…
Ben Cousins
Ben Cousins has one of the most extraordinary stories in modern Australian sport. He’s perhaps the most gifted player of his generation - a former captain of the West Coast…
Barry Humphries
In this unauthorised biography, acquired for an unprecedented advance and in spectacular secrecy, long-time manager and the man who was there from the very beginning, Barry Humphries takes a behind-the-…
Mark Twain
I’ve struck it! Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. And I will give it away - to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you…
Patti Smith
Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith’s evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe
In stock at 7 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 7 shops
Alasdair Gray
The autobiography in words and pictures of one of Britain’s most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray
Anne Lister
The diary of a remarkable woman who lived life on her terms in Regency Yorkshire. Anne Lister was a wealthy landowner, industrialist and lesbian.