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Dear Reader, July 2020
If you feel like your head will explode if you hear the phrases ‘unprecedented times’ or ‘new normal’ again, then you are in the right place. Welcome to an experience that will take you back to a more comfortable era, delivering a familiar kind of ‘old normal’ that should bring you some feeling of nostalgic relief: perusing an excellent edition of the Readings Monthly. This month’s issue is overf…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Five recent novels about writers & writing
New books matched to winter bevvies
It’s winter in Melbourne and Detective Emmett Corban is starting to regret his promotion to head of the Missing Persons Unit, as the routine r…
Immersive family dramas from Australian voices
When family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to fl…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Julia Baird tops o…
Six books for Gen Z readers
Homeland Calling is a collection of poems created from hip-hop song lyrics…
Six books for millennial readers
Emira Tucker is an African-American college graduate trying to figure out her future while babysitting white speaker/entrepreneu…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Two…
Our favourite books of 2020 (so far)
I’ve read a fair bit this year, all things considered, but I have two clear fiction favourites: Weather by Jenny Offill, and The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay. Both are brilliant and subversive, and star real women dealing with the effects of the ground shifting …
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