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Readings are delighted to be the official booksellers for this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival. This year’s festival theme is ‘Ambition’ and you can explore the full programme here.

Browse books from authors appearing in the MWF22 programme below.

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Black and Blue

Black and Blue

Veronica Gorrie

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Jack of Hearts QX11594

Jack of Hearts QX11594

Jackie Huggins, Ngaire Jarro

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Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation (New Edition)

Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation (New Edition)

Jackie Huggins

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Astronomy: Sky Country

Astronomy: Sky Country

Karlie Noon, Krystal De Napoli, Margo Neale

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Another Day in the Colony

Another Day in the Colony

Chelsea Watego

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How to Make a Basket

How to Make a Basket

Jazz Money

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Dropbear

Dropbear

Evelyn Araluen

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This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction

This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction

Mykaela Saunders

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Digital on demand series

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Bliss Montage

Bliss Montage

Ling Ma

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Vladimir

Vladimir

Julia May Jonas

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The Furrows

The Furrows

Namwali Serpell

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The Candy House (Exclusive Cover)

The Candy House (Exclusive Cover)

Jennifer Egan

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Joan Is Okay

Joan Is Okay

Weike Wang

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Hold Your Fire

Hold Your Fire

Chloe Wilson

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Danged Black Thing

Danged Black Thing

Eugen Bacon

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Mage of Fools

Mage of Fools

Eugen Bacon

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Workshop series

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An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life

An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life

Paul Dalla Rosa

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Another Australia

Another Australia

Sweatshop

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The Wrong Woman

The Wrong Woman

J.P. Pomare

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Root & Branch: Essays on Inheritance

Root & Branch: Essays on Inheritance

Eda Gunaydin

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Enclave

Enclave

Claire G. Coleman, Camha Pham

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Desi Girl: On Feminism, Race, Faith and Belonging

Desi Girl: On Feminism, Race, Faith and Belonging

Sarah Malik

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Blue Hour

Blue Hour

Sarah Schmidt, Geraldine Hakewill

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Our Members Be Unlimited

Our Members Be Unlimited

Sam Wallman

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Programmed fiction

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The Furrows

The Furrows

Namwali Serpell

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The Candy House (Exclusive Cover)

The Candy House (Exclusive Cover)

Jennifer Egan

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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Benjamin Stevenson

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Every Secret Thing

Every Secret Thing

Marie Munkara

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Bon and Lesley

Bon and Lesley

Shaun Prescott

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Salt and Skin

Salt and Skin

Eliza Henry-Jones

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Joan Is Okay

Joan Is Okay

Weike Wang

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Run and Hide

Run and Hide

Pankaj Mishra

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Programmed memoir & biography

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Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation (New Edition)

Sister Girl: Reflections on Tiddaism, Identity and Reconciliation (New Edition)

Jackie Huggins

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Black and Blue

Black and Blue

Veronica Gorrie

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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson

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Little Weirds

Little Weirds

Jenny Slate

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All About Yves: Notes from a Transition

All About Yves: Notes from a Transition

Yves Rees

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Jack of Hearts QX11594

Jack of Hearts QX11594

Jackie Huggins, Ngaire Jarro

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After the Tampa

After the Tampa

Abbas Nazari

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How to Be Between

How to Be Between

Bastian Fox Phelan

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Programmed non-fiction

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The Opera House

The Opera House

Peter FitzSimons

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Making Australian History

Making Australian History

Anna Clark

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Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia

Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia

Joshua Yaffa

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August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan

August in Kabul: America’s Last Days in Afghanistan

Andrew Quilty

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On Reckoning

On Reckoning

Amy Remeikis

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Talkin' Up to the White Woman (20th Anniversary Edition)

Talkin' Up to the White Woman (20th Anniversary Edition)

Aileen Moreton-Robinson

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How to Lose Friends and Influence White People.

How to Lose Friends and Influence White People.

Antoinette Lattouf

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On Aunty

On Aunty

Jonathan Holmes

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Programmed poetry

Inside My Mother

Inside My Mother

Ali Cobby Eckermann

In her new poetry collection, Inside My Mother, Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann explores the trauma created by family separation, felt as an interminable void in its darkest aspects, but in other ways a magical place 'beyond...

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The Jaguar

The Jaguar

Sarah Holland-Batt

A stunning new collection from one of Australia's finest poets - her most impressive work yet.

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How to Make a Basket

Jazz Money

A powerful and lyrical collection of poetry by the winner of the 2020 David Unaipon Award.

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Young Adult programme

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Heartstopper: Volume One

Heartstopper: Volume One

Alice Oseman

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Where You Left Us

Where You Left Us

Rhiannon Wilde

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Sadie Starr's Guide to Starting Over

Sadie Starr’s Guide to Starting Over

Miranda Luby

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Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell

Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell

Tobias Madden

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Dancing Barefoot

Dancing Barefoot

Alice Boyle

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The Cult of Romance

The Cult of Romance

Sarah Ayoub

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Highway Bodies

Highway Bodies

Alison Evans

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League of Liars

League of Liars

Astrid Scholte

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Families programme

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The First Scientists: Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia's First Peoples

The First Scientists: Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia’s First Peoples

Corey Tutt

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All the Little Tricky Things

All the Little Tricky Things

Karys McEwen

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Be Careful, Xiao Xin!

Be Careful, Xiao Xin!

Alice Pung, Sher Rill Ng

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11 Words for Love

11 Words for Love

Randa Abdel-Fattah, Maxine Beneba Clarke

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Jess Makes a Mess: School of Monsters

Jess Makes a Mess: School of Monsters

Sally Rippin, Chris Kennett

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William is a Star: School of Monsters

William is a Star: School of Monsters

Sally Rippin, Chris Kennett

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Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon

Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon

Gabrielle Wang

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Real Pigeons Duck Trouble: Real Pigeons #9

Real Pigeons Duck Trouble: Real Pigeons #9

Andrew McDonald, Ben Wood

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