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Readings staff share their MIFF 2019 top picks
I’ve been a regular at MIFF for over 20 years and sitting …
Q&A with Clare Strahan
Dear Reader, May 2019
One of the perennial delights of working with new books is that there are always more new books (though it’s also a constant anxiety, since there are far too many to read, even in a thousand lifetimes), and we’re always furnished with advance copies well ahead of their release to the general public. As a consequence, I’m often reading something that won’t be available for several months when I wr…
On the magic of a Hot Desk Fellowship
Q&A with Readings Children’s Book Prize winner Carly Nugent
We sat down with the Carly Nugent – author of the 2019 Readings Children’s Book Prize winner The Peacock Detectives – to talk about what makes a good mystery, what inspired her book and what she’s been reading.
Congratulations on winning the Readings Children’s Book Prize! Can you tell us a bit about why you wanted to write this story? Has the book been with you for a while?Thank you! It’s s…
Read an extract from Raising Readers by Megan Daley
If I have not…
Read an extract from Growing Up African in Australia
‘We always want what we don’t h…
Read an extract from The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
During the 1980s, in California, a large number…
Read an extract from Trace by Rachael Brown
1.00pm Coroners Court w Ron
– Diary note, 21 April 2016
I wince at Maria’s bruised face in the …
Read an extract from The Year Everything Changed
On New Year’s Eve, 31 December 2001, we buried our son. His name was Daniel. My husband Adam, his father and my sister stood alongside me in Singapore’s Chua Chu Kang Lawn Cemetery and we watched a small, white coffin go into the ground.…
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