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What we’re reading: Tremblay, Wilkinson & O'Donnell
I have just finished a really satisfying reading week with two new Australian YA novels that kept me enthralled and entertained.
Kate O'Donnell’s This One Is Ours follows dreamy and effervescen…
The Baillie Gifford Prize shortlist 2020
The Baillie Gifford prize is the UK’s most prestigious award for nonfiction writing.
The 2020 shortlisted titles have just been announced and include:
One Two Three Four by Craig Brown The Idea of the Brain by Matthew Cobb Black Spartacus by Sudhir Hazareesingh Our Bodies, Their Battlefield by Christina Lamb Stranger in the Shogun’s City by Amy Stanley The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Sum…
The winners of the CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2020
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced their Book of the Year Awards winners for 2020. These Awards celebrate the best Australian books for readers in early childhood up to young adult readers.
Here are the winners for each category.
Older Readers (for ages 13-18 years) This Is How We Change The Ending by Vikki WakefieldSixteen-year-old Nate McKee has a lot of worr…
The Ned Kelly Awards winners 2020
On a tourist island off the Victorian coast, two women come to slow realisations about the men they love. Kate’s husband has vanished, a body is found on the island, and Abby suspects her husband might be involved -– while the tr…
Our top picks of the month for book clubs
Miwako Sumida has committed suicide. Now, those closest to her are attempting to piece together the fragments of her life. Ryusei, who has always loved her, follows Miwako’s trail to a remote Japanese village. He’s joined by Chie, Miwako’s best friend, who doesn’t know whether to …
The Goldsmiths Prize shortlist 2020
The shortlist for this year’s Goldsmiths Prize has been announced. This prize was established in 2013 to celebrate the qualities of creative daring and to reward fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form.
The six titles shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize are:
Mr Beethoven by Paul Griffiths A Lover’s Discourse by Xiaolu Guo The Sunken Land Begins to Ris…
The best new crime reads in October
In the seventeenth century, the East India Trading Company has a tight grip on the world. Those who sail as merchants rule absolutely, and everyone who works for them is ruthless, amoral, and evil. Sailors, in turn, are the worst of people: t…
Introducing click and collect (sort of)
Our website isn’t set up for click and collect, but we know you’d like that option during these last weeks of lockdown!
To that end, if you are ordering online, live within 25km of one of our shops, and want to collect your items in person via contactless pick-up from a Readings shop rather than having them sent in the post, please write ‘I would like to pick up my order’ in the notes field duri…
A spotlight on translated fiction this month
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