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Penny Tangey wins the Readings Children’s Book Prize 2021
We are thrilled to share that the winner of the Readings Children’s Book Prize is As Fast As I Can by Penny Tangey! This thrilling and entertaining sporty adventure will delight readers of ages 8-12.
Ten-year-old Vivian has her life sorted already – she’s determined to go the Olympics. She just doesn’t know in which sport! She’s tried nearly everything, but now she’s found her love of cross cou…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
Lapsed by Monica Dux
Sex, Lies & Question Time by Kate Ellis
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
Quarterly Essay 81: Getting to Zero by Alan Finkel
Turns Out, I’m Fine by Judith Lucy
Witness by Louise Milligan
Our best-seller from the past …
What we’re reading: Murphy, Rovellis, & Lord
I was so excited about the release of this book. I honestly raced through this one over the Easter break. It’s such a perfectly structured memoir that I felt completed immersed.
Fion…
What to read in April
It’s been a while since Haruki Murakami has released a collection of short stories, so no doubt our Fiction Book of the Month, First Person Singular, will be on the top of many people’s reading lists this month. Murakami fans will be pleased with the familiar motifs and themes of his work evident in this volume - jazz, baseball, memory, loneliness and youthful longing.
However, it must be said t…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Sex, Lies & Question Time by Kate Ellis
Quarterly Essay 81: Getting to Zero by Alan Finkel
Black & Blue by Veronica Gorrie
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
The Pronoun Lowdown by Nevo Zisin
First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Love Objects by Emily Maguire
Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Our bestseller from the p…
What we’re reading: Ryan & Fuller
I’m reading A Room Called Earth and I’m finding it a joyous stream-of-consciousness ride. I was talking with a friend recently about how Convenience Store Woman left me saddened…
The best food & gardening books of the month
You may already have a Ross Dobson book on your shelves. He is after all a highly acclaimed chef who has written many cookbooks before. But this one, well, this is his masterpiece. With over 350 recipes from all over the world, this enormous tome recognises all our foodie influences. And because it’s Dobson writing, there are also special tr…
Mark’s Say: April, 2021
Lygon Street in Carlton and Acland Street in St Kilda were vibrant local shopping strips and wonderful areas to hang out. Sadly, they’ve lost some of their vitality. Both derived much of their energy from the wave of immigrants who came to Australia after the Second World War.
In Lygon Street, Italian immigrants opened small businesses and brought Italian food culture, and especially the espress…
The 2021 International Booker Prize longlist
The prize is awarded every year for a single book that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. It aims to encourage more publishing and reading of quality works of imagination from all o…
On Events in April, with Chris Gordon
We are keeping our events program out of our shops for the time being. This is good news for those of you who want a guaranteed a seat at our discussions and book launches or indeed, for those of you who would prefer to stay at home. Our events will be staged at external venues near our shops, as well as continuing online via Zoom. My hope is that by offering this hybrid style of programming, the…
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