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Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
What we’re reading: Hale, Raskin & Kim
This time of year is fantastic for getting large quantities of reading done, which I have certainly achieved. I bought my 12-year-old daughter a copy of Kind of a Big Deal by Shann…
The Costa Book Awards winners 2020
Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Costa Book Awards.
These awards honour some of the most outstanding books of the year written by authors based in the UK and Ireland, across five different categories. They are intended to reward the most enjoyable book in each category, with the winner of the overall £30,000 book of the year prize to be announced on 26 January.
First novelThe wi…
Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Everyone has been enjoying delving into some qua…
See you all in 2021
2020 has been a challenging year around the world, and here in Melbourne, it was no different. Opening with a series of catastrophic bushfires, before the arrival of the coronavirus to Australian shores and a devastating mid-year outbreak in Victoria which necessitated a strict lockdown and saw Readings close their doors for the first time in 51 years of business – it’s hard to imagine anyone in …
Our 2021 literary resolutions
“Okay look. This is it. 2021 is going to be the year I crack poetry. For so long, I’ve shied away from written poetry, feeling myself too dense, too literal, for all those volatile emotions overflowing from the innocuously slim spines on the poetry shelves. I’m not a sensitive Aeolian harp! I played a sensible four years of piano and…
What we’re reading over summer
“Linn Ullmann’s Unquiet, has come to my attention with the highest of commendations from a number of brilliant women I greatly admire – our head book buyer, Alison Huber, as well as the writers, Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk, Ali Smith, Lydia Davis, and Claire Messud – so this memoir as novel is my number one pick to help me escape fr…
Summer reads for teens
Cousins Milly, Audrey and Jonah have been invited by their rich and estranged grandmother to spend the summer at her island resort. Their grandmother disinherited her own children – their parents – many yea…
My six favourite reads of 2020
This epic fantasy tome from New Zealander Elizabeth Knox follows Taryn Cornick as she is drawn into a mysteriou…