Congratulations to the authors, translators and publishers shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker International Prize.

Here is the shortlist in full:

Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi (Oman), translated by Marilyn Booth The Years by Annie Ernaux (France), translated by Alison L. Strayer The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann (Germany), translated by Jen Calleja Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of…

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Ottilie Colter and the Narroway Hunt is one of the six books shortlisted for this year’s Readings Children’s Book Prize. Here’s everything you need to know about this thrilling high-stakes fantasy.

When Ottilie’s younger brother is taken by the Pickers, she disguises herself as a boy to rescue him. She soon finds herself at an elite training school for hunters, in the mysterious in-between wo…

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The winner of this year’s Stella Prize is The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie.

The Erratics is an intensely gripping, yet black-humoured family memoir, which follows Laveau-Harvie as she is summoned to her estranged parents' isolated ranch home in Canada after her elderly mother is unexpectedly hospitalised. Upon her arrival, she is horrified by the neglect she discovers. What ensues is a power …

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Throughout the month of April, we have three special offers to tempt both book and music lovers. 3 for 2 sale on Ian McEwan books

To the celebrate the release of Ian McEwan’s new book, Machines Like Us, on 16 April, we have are running a month-long special offer on a select range of McEwan’s books.

Buy two books, and choose a third book in the range (of equal or lesser value) for free! Th…

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Readings Doncaster is excited to announce the launch of its first ever Middle Fiction Book Club!

The Middle Fiction Book Club’s goal is to introduce children to a diverse range of amazing books of different genres, hand-picked by our Readings staff and the book club members themselves. We hope to facilitate conversation, encourage community and to get creative.

The Book Club is aimed at childr…

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In the seven years since it launched, the Stella Prize has exposed Australian readers to a wide variety of books through their annual longlists and shortlists – from novellas to short stories, dystopian speculative fiction to young adult novels. In this post, our booksellers share some of their favourite books that they discovered through the Stella Prize. An Uncertain Grace by Krissy Kneen…

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No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani & Omid Tofighian (trans.) The Place on Dalhousie by Melina Marchetta Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe Invented Lives by Andrea Goldsmith City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest by Sophie Cunningham A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia s First All-Girl Garage by Lo…

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Wilam: A Birrarung Story by Aunty Joy Murphy, Andrew Kelly & Lisa Kennedy Welcome to Country by Aunty Joy Murphy & Lisa Kennedy Hopping Weird (Weirdo Book 12) by Anh Do All the Ways to Be Smart by Davina Bell & Allison Colpoys Fing by David Walliams & Tony Ross Catching Teller Crow by Ambelin Kwaymullina & Ezekiel Kwaymullina Make Believe: M.C. Escher for Kids by Kate Ryan & Cally Bennett Where’…

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The shortlist for the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize has been announced.

The shortlisted titles are:

Can You Tolerate This by Ashleigh Young The Crossway by Guy Stagg Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile by Alice Jolly Milkman by Anna Burns Ordinary People by Diana Evans The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus There There by Tommy Orange West by Carys Davies

Launched in 2014 as an alternative to the Man Booker …

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Max Porter’s second book, Lanny, is a short and powerful novel that has our booksellers rhapsodising over its language, its breadth of ideas and its ability to move you to tears. Shot through with wit, lyricism and emotional insight, it more than lives up to the promise of Porter’s universally praised debut Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Here is a collection of testimonials from booksellers w…

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