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Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Our 2020 Christmas Gift Guide: The ethical & sustainable edition
Our 2020 Christmas gift guide round-up
In the lead-up to Christmas 2020, we’ll be sharing a host of a range of carefully curated gift guides featuring hand-picked recommendations from our staff. Keep an eye on this page as we’ll be adding to our list throughout the coming weeks.
Plus – make sure you check out the books featured in our annual Summer Reading Guide to find even more gift-buying (and your own holiday reading!) inspiratio…
What we’re reading: Lockwood, Jackson & Offill
Patricia Lockwood’s book Priestdaddy is a favourite of our booksellers and often appears on our blog as a recommended read. I don’t read much memoir myself so it’s always passed me by, b…
Elizabeth Tan wins the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2020
It is a great pleasure to announce Elizabeth Tan’s Smart Ovens for Lonely People as the 2020 winner of The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. This is a truly exciting work; Tan’s stories push the form, and offer a quixotic but penetrating look into our contemporary life. Her collection stood out to the judges for its originality, its clear and concise writing, and its humour – Smart Ovens…
We love this Australian fiction debut
“Funny, relevant, tragic and engaging are all words which spring to mind when I think about this deligh…
Our 2020 Christmas Gift Guide: The friends & family edition
We’d love to welcome you back to Readings with a free book
To celebrate the reopening of our stores and to thank our customers for their wonderful support during lockdown, we are giving away free books! We repeat, free books!
Starting on Wednesday 28 October, every customer who spends $30 or more will be offered a free copy of either The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen or If This Is A Man / The Truce by Primo Levi.
Both these titles are part of the H…
Our shops are open again!
Welcome back Melbourne!! We’ve missed you!
As of Wednesday 28 October, we will be reopening our Carlton, Kids, Doncaster, Hawthorn, Malvern, and St Kilda shops. Unfortunately, our State Library shop will need to remain closed a while longer.
To find opening hours and more information for each shop, please visit the shops page on our website.
We can’t wait to have in-person conversations with …
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