Sam Kelly updates us on all the goings-on at the Doncaster Middle Fiction Book Club, and looks ahead to their upcoming book club reads.

The Doncaster Middle Fiction Book Club is proving to be a lot of fun, and over the last few months we’ve had some amazing experiences. We’ve put on performances inspired by Drama, played a murder mystery game with dramatic deaths the likes of which would have …

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The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson The Testaments by Margaret Atwood Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe The Wife and the Widow by Christian White Good Food Guide 2020 edited by Myffy Rigby Kitty Flanagan’s 488 Rules for Life by Kitty Flanagan Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Act of Grace by Anna Krien Penny Wong: Passion and Principle by Margaret Simons

A new…

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The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, Volume 2) by Philip Pullman Guts by Raina Telgemeier Molly, Mop and Moppet’s Adventures in Paris by A.G. Krishnan and Valery Vell Welcome to Country (Youth Edition) by Marcia Langton The Bad Guys Episode 10: The Baddest Day Ever by Aaron Blabey The Treehouse Joke Book by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton Tilly by Jane Godwin and Anna Walker Young Dark Emu…

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James Butler works as a bookseller at our Hawthorn shop. Here we chat with them about how they ended up working in bookshops, and what’s an Australian book everyone should read. Why did you decide to work in books?

I began working in an independent bookshop when I first started studying creative writing and English literature at university. It felt like work that was the perfect extension of …

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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. Fiona Hardy is reading Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

My usual reading diet consists of kids books and crime (I know, I know) but when I need to mix things up, I really love a non-bloodthirsty non-fiction book. Which makes it ironic, probably, th…

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In the UK, the shortlist for the Goldsmiths Prize has been announced. The 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 titles shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize are:

Slip of a Fish by Amy Arnold

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

The Porpoise by Mark Haddon

The Ma…

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This month we’re blessed with gorgeous imaginative picture books, dragon-filled fantasy quests, sweet dancing dogs, retold fairy tales and climate science. Find our October picks for YA books here. KIDS BOOK OF THE MONTH All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors by Davina Bell & Jenny Løvlie

When Frankie McGee insists on borrowing yet another library book about tractors, his mum begs hi…

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This month we have blockbuster fantasy, a sophisticated look at modern gaming, an homage to 1950s horror movies, a gritty Australian contemporary read and satisfying horror. Find our October picks for kids books here. YA BOOK OF THE MONTH Angel Mage by Garth Nix

Liliath, a powerful angel mage that has been dead for 140 years is back to revive her destructive plans – and she will need fo…

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Following on from his enormously successful debut, The Nowhere Child, we’ve been looking forward all year to Christian White’s second crime thriller. And now it’s here! Here are some glowing testimonials from booksellers who have read, and loved, The Wife and the Widow.

‘As an avid crime fiction reader, I don’t outwardly react to events that happen in books that often. It sounds awful, but br…

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Our monthly food and gardening columnist shares four of her favourite new books in October.

TLV: Tel Aviv - Recipes and stories from Israel by Jigal Krant

Dutch author Jigal Krant is a culinary journalist, filmmaker, and radio producer based in the Netherlands. He produces and presents a television program titled The Kosher Dilemma, in which he searches for the secrets of Jewish cuisine. T…

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