Page 16 of our blog posts
ABA Booksellers' Choice Book of the Year Awards longlists 2020
The longlists for the Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) Booksellers’ Choice Book of the Year Awards have been announced. These awards recognise the titles that booksellers most enjoyed reading and hand-selling during 2019.
This year, for the first time, the awards will be presented in three categories: adult fiction, nonfiction and children’s. Below are this year’s longlisted titles for…
New debut fiction from around the world
If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerising world of contemporary Seoul – a place where extreme plastic surgery is as routine as getting a haircut, where…
An update about the Readings Monthly in 2020
Since its early days, Readings has published the Readings Monthly – our free, independent newspaper. Featuring books, albums, DVDs, events, reviews, news, interviews, author features, and more, this newsletter has grown over many years into a full-colour, 24-page monthly publication. Produced by a small but passionate editorial and design team, the Readings Monthly brings together contributions f…
Pride in children’s books
Elvi has two mums, and they’re both her real mum. But when her playmate Nicholas still needs to know more, Elvi’s imagination runs wild. Her real mum is a circus performer, and a pirate, and she even t…
The Environment Award for Children’s Literature shortlist 2020
The Wilderness Society has announced the shortlist for the 2020 Environment Award for Children’s Literature.
This award is presented annually to fiction and nonfiction books that ‘foster a love of wild places and wildlife in young Australians’ and ‘encourage a sense of responsibility for our natural world’.
Here are the shortlisted books for each category…
Picture fiction One Tree by Christo…
ALS Gold Medal 2020 shortlist
The Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal is awarded annually for an outstanding literary work published in the preceding year.
Here are the shortlisted books for 2020:
Element by Jordie Albiston
Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
Congratulations to all the authors on the s…
Non-fiction books to expand your mind in May
In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined people are getting ready. They are environmentalists who fear th…
Recommended reads from non-binary authors
This is the second poetry collection from Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language and land, van Neerven flexes…
Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
Are youn…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
There are plenty of famili…
Browse our blog by category
