The Readings blog

Digital marketing manager Lian Hingee shares book recommendations for fans of popular TV shows. If you love Game of Thrones… The HBO TV series of Game of Thrones has introduced millions of readers to George R.R. Martin’s novels. If…

There are a stack of amazing books being adapted for the screen this year. Here are 10 of our favourites, and you can find plenty more picks by browsing our collections below The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society…

Here are our 10 bestselling DVDs from the past year. (We’ve also compiled our 100 bestselling books of 2017 and our 10 bestselling CDs of 2017.) Our bestselling DVDs of last year reveal our customers’ love of historical dramas, crime…

Our marketing manager shares five things that made her feel happy this past year 2017 has been a very hard year for a lot of people, the kind of year where you take whatever sources of happiness you can find…

Every year our staff vote for their favourite books, albums, films and TV shows of the past 12 months. Here are our top 10 DVDs of the year, voted for by Readings’ staff, and displayed in no particular order. (You…

To celebrate this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival, we are holding our annual Madman DVD sale throughout August. This sale featuring a wide range of releases that includes Putuparri and the Rainmakers, Paterson, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict…

Staff share what they’re planning to see at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) this year. You can find the full program here. Jemima Bucknell is excited for a very special Australian film event. MIFF is just the best time…

This year’s Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) presents two program streams for a youth audience. MIFF Kids is a program of films for all ages at family-friendly times on the weekends. MIFF Schools brings together an array of high quality…

This Mother’s Day, our staff reflect on some of the most important lessons they’ve learned from fictional mothers – in books, TV, films, and more. ‘In the world of fictional mothers, Lorelei Gilmore has taught me to embrace pop culture…

2017 is another massive year for book-to-screen adaptations, and we’re particularly excited to see these four books from Australian authors make their big (and small!) screen debuts Lion: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley At the age of five,…

Here are our 20 bestselling DVDs from the past year. (We’ve also compiled our 100 bestselling books of 2016 and our 20 bestselling CDs of 2016.) Crime and historical stories dominate our list of bestselling DVDs of last year –…

It’s been a really tough year, and summer is the perfect time to log off from social media for a little while, give yourself a break and binge watch your troubles away. You’ll find my many suggestions below, with a…