Bluey: The Beach (A Lift-the-Flap Book) Bluey: Time to Play! (Sticker Activity Book) Bluey: Fruit Bat (A Glow-in-the-Dark Book) Explore Your World by Tim Flannery & Sam Caldwell The Beast of Buckingham Palace by David Walliams Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe How to Make a Movie in Twelve Days by Fiona Hardy Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 14) by Jeff Kinney All of the…

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The Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards shortlists for 2020 have now been announced.

Here are the shortlistees for this year…

PRIZE FOR FICTION The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab Act of Grace by Anna Krien
Simpson Returns by Wayne Macauley Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas The Yield by Tara June Winch PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION Songspirals: Sharing Women’s Wisdom of Country through Songlines…

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This year we again invited our customers to vote for their favourite books, music, film and TV of the past year. Here are the most voted for books across each category…

Best fiction books

A Constant Hum by Alice Bishop The Nancys by R.W.R. McDonald The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Best non-fiction books

Unlike the Heart: A Memoir of Brain and Mind by Nicola Redhouse Three Women by Lis…

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Teetering on the precipice of a brand-new season, our staff share what’s on their TBR piles – including some exciting forthcoming books to look out for in early 2020… Kim Gruschow, book buyer and children’s book buyer at Readings St Kilda Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah (translated by Deborah Smith) (available February 2020) Hattie by Frida Nilsson & Stina Wirsén (translated by Julia Mars…

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Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on or the music we’re loving. Leanne Hall is reading Lair of Dreams (The Diviners, Book 2) by Libba Bray

I’m exactly halfway through the second book in the Diviners series by Libba Bray, Lair of Dreams, and it’s so wonderful I’m in no rush to get through the second half. T…

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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be compiling a host of gift guides to help you with your Christmas shopping. Kids graphic novels are more popular than ever, with a wide variety available across age groups, reading level and genres. Here are some of the children’s graphic novels and comics that have impressed us this year.

Super Narwhal and Jelly Jolt and Peanut Butter and Jelly by Ben Clant…

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The Readings Foundation has announced $135,142 worth of grants to support a range of projects and organisations within Victoria in 2020.

The Readings Foundation assists Victorian organisations that support the development of literacy, community integration and the arts. Readings donates 10% of its overall profit to the Foundation each year, and the kind donations from Readings' customers make a …

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If you’re looking for something smart and compulsive to read by the poolside (or while curled up in a couch!), here are some of our best recommendations for smart summer reads of this year. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a…

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We asked our booksellers to share a book that got them out of a reading rut.

Leanne Hall recommends Stargazing by Jen Wang

For some reason graphic novels always get me out of a reading slump – perhaps because it feels refreshing to focus on visuals as well as words? Reading a good graphic novel feels like food for my eyes and a pep-up for my brain. Stargazing by Jen Wang recently rejuvena…

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The Costa Book Awards honour some of the most outstanding books of the year written by authors based in the UK and Ireland. There are five categories – First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s Book – with one of the five winners chosen as Book of the Year.

Below is the full list of shortlistees in each category.

Best First novel

Diary of a Somebody by Brian Bilston Queenie by Cand…

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