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At home with Chris Gordon
Over thirty books, countless television series, numerous restaurants, a steady stream of public-health initiatives and a gaggle of kids since we all embraced the phenomenon of The Naked Chef, Jamie Oliver is back riding the zeitgeist with Veg: Easy & Delicious Meals for Everyone. With plenty of super-tasty, brilliantly simple yet inventi…
August’s international fiction highlights
This unique, experimental take on the Black Death by Irish author Oisín Fagan is not for those offended by graphic language…
Mark’s Say: August 2019
I hate this time of year, the end of the financial year. It’s when we find out how many books have been stolen from our shelves. You’d think I’d get used to it, but I never quite do. This year the value of the items stolen has increased by 30% to $175,000. It’s upsetting; with that money we could have given our hardworking staff a bigger bonus and also put some extra money into the Readings Found…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
It would be remiss of us not…
Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
What We’re Reading: Hale, Grann
Finally available again on vinyl for the first time since 2004. This Britpop-era Scottish band produced brilliantly skewed pop music that set them both ahead and outside of their pack mates of the …
Dear Reader, August 2019
It occurs to me that our two books of the month, Meg Mundell’s The Trespassers and Bruce Pascoe’s Salt, encapsulate this moment in time in the sense that they each demonstrate key concerns of both Australian independent publishing and the culture at large. The former is a genre-defying allegorical novel about climate crisis and refugees that holds a mirror to our darkening age; the latter is a ge…
We’re announcing a brand-new Kids Book Subscription service!
The Readings Kids' Book Subscription is the perfect gift for the little people in your life – a new-release picture book in the post every month handpicked by our children’s book experts, and delivered straight to your lucky recipient. It is the ideal birthday, Christmas or welcome to the world present…
An update from the Doncaster Middle Fiction Book Club
The Ned Kelly Awards longlist 2019
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