The Readings blog

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

Featuring a host of authors and new books to be excited about for the year ahead.

Featuring All Fours by Miranda July, Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout, Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell and more.

Featuring The Buried Life by Andrea Goldsmith, Time Together by Luke Horton, Signs of Damage by Diana Reid, and more!

Featuring The Burrow by Melanie Cheng, Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser, Always Will Be by Mykaela Saunders and more.

Find our recommendations to help mark off the bingo square: 'One word title' from the 2025 Reading(s) Challenge Bingo.

Featuring First Name Second Name by Steve MinOn, Unbury the Dead by Fiona Hardy, Blue Poles by Tom McIlroy and more.

The start of a new month means that there's a new issue of Readings Monthly – here's the foreword from the latest issue.

Featuring Good Cooking Every Day by Julia Busuttil Nishimura, So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell and Brian by Jeremy Cooper.

Featuring Magic Beach by Alison Lester, Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur, Carrie by Stephen King and more.

Featuring Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda, Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico and more.

Featuring Liar's Test by Ambelin Kwaymullina, Deep Is the Fen by Lili Wilkinson, Cruel is the Light by Sophie Clark and more.