Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 14) by Jeff Kinney Bluey: The Beach (A Lift-the-Flap Book) Bluey: Fruit Bat (A Glow-in-the-Dark Book) Guts by Raina Telgemeier Bluey: Time to Play! (Sticker Activity Book) Explore Your World by Tim Flannery & Sam Caldwell The Treehouse Joke Book by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Welcome to Country (Youth Edition) by Marcia Langton The Australia Survival G…

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Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume One, 1978-1987 by Helen Garner Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout The Anarchy by William Dalrymple Find Me by Andre Aciman The Weekend by Charlotte Wood Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Legendary Aus…

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Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on or the music we’re loving. Mark Rubbo is reading Peace by Garry Disher

I’ve been reading Peace by Garry Disher which is a sequel of sorts to his award-winning 2015 novel, Bitter Wash Road. Paul Hirschhausen has been demoted to a one-cop town in country South Australia a…

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Each year we compile a list of great reads by Australian women, originally inspired by the Australian Women Writers Challenge which begun in 2012 and continues to this day. This year we have expanded our list to include gender diverse authors as well. Here are 100 great reads by Australian women and non-binary authors published in 2019. The following books are displayed in no particular order a…

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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be compiling a host of gift guides to help you with your Christmas shopping. GIFT IDEAS FOR AGES 0-2

Board books make wonderful gifts for little people with chubby little hands and curious eyes, and there are some beautiful options available this year. Artist-designer Beci Orpin’s Dressing Your Family and Moving Your Body have simple text that encourages babie…

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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be compiling a host of gift guides to help you with your Christmas shopping. CONTEMPORARY STORIES & ROMANCE

If your teen is allergic to dragons but loves relatable stories, here are some of the great realist books that are currently impressing us.

On The Come Up is Angie Thomas’s much-anticipated follow-up to her mega-hit The Hate U Give. Brianna is sixteen-y…

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Here are the changes to our regular trading hours for each of our seven shops during the Christmas and New Year period. You can view the shop pages here. CHRISTMAS OPENING HOURS AT READINGS CARLTON

Sunday 15 December – 9am - 10pm
Monday 16 December – 8am - 11pm
Tuesday 17 December – 8am - 11pm
Wednesday 18 December – 8am - 11pm
Thursday 19 December – 8am - 11pm
Friday 20 December – 8am - 11…

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November has arrived and the countdown to Christmas cheer is starting… Let us help make shopping during this year’s festive season as painless as possible.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing our curated gift guides, sharing our top 10 best books, CDs and DVDs of the year, and releasing our annual Summer Reading Guide, which is always jam-packed with great recommendations.

We’ll also be…

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Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo The Weekend by Charlotte Wood Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, Book 24) by Lee Child Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Fighting for Hakeem by Craig Foster with Alex Engel-Mallon

November is alwa…

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The shortlist for this year’s Staunch Book Prize has been announced.

Established by UK screenwriter Bridget Lawless, this prize is awarded to the best thriller novel in which no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered, and aims to ‘make space for an alternative to the overload of violence towards women in fiction’.

The six shortlisted titles for 2019 are:

Only to Sleep…

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