The Readings blog

Featuring I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang, Bud and Buzz by Penny O'Loughlin and A Present for Junket by Mandy Wildsmith, and more.

Featuring Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks, Joan Lindsay by Brenda Niall, Three Days in June by Anne Tyler, and more.

Featuring This Stays Between Us by Margot McGovern, Sunny At the End of the World by Steph Bowe, All Better Now by Neal Shusterman, and more.

Featuring A Present for Junket by Mandy Wildsmith, Brightest Wild by Tania Crampton-Larking, Wonders Under the Moon by Tai Snaith, and more.

Featuring Time Together by Luke Horton, Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chameleon by Robert Dessaix, and more.

Featuring We Do Not Part by Han Kang, Eurotrash by Christian Kracht, Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, and more.

Featuring Oscar Piastri: The Rookie by Andrew van Leeuwen, Max Verstappen by Ewan McKenzie, On the Grid by Luke Smith and more.

Featuring amazing cookbooks such as Pranzo by Guy Mirabella, The Food of Bharat by Helly Raichura, A Heide Harvest by Maximilian & Alice Crowe, and more.

Discover Program Manager Angela Crocombe’s top picks of the Clunes Booktown Festiva1.

Featuring The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein, The Secret Public by Jon Savage, First Name, Second Name by Steve MinOn and more.

Featuring Miles Franklin Undercover by Kerrie Davies, Black Convicts by Santilla Chingaipe, Joan Lindsay by Brenda Niall and more.

We are delighted to announce The Readings Foundation grant recipients for 2025.