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Eight unsettling reads for midwinter
Announcing the 2020 Melbourne Writers Festival digital program
Lisa Fuller wins the Readings Young Adult Book Prize 2020
We are absolutely delighted to announce Ghost Bird by Lisa Fuller as the winner of the Readings Young Adult Book Prize for 2020. Ghost Bird is a terrifying and spooky thriller set in country Australia and against a backdrop of family relationships, small- town grudges and casual racism. It is a cracking read for ages 14 through to adult that will scare the pants off you and make you question your…
Matilda Woods wins the Readings Children’s Book Prize 2020
We are thrilled to share that the winner of this year’s Readings Children’s Book Prize is The Girl, The Cat & the Navigator by Matilda Woods! This thrilling high-seas tale will enchant readers of ages 7–12 years.
Eleven-year-old Oona longs for adventures, but as a girl in Nordor – a town where houses are built from wood that comes from shipwrecks and sway as though still at sea – she must stay d…
Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Tara June Winch wins the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020
Tara June Winch has been named the winner of this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award for The Yield.
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains, and he is now determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. His granddaught…
What we’re reading: Mildenhall, Mantel & Godwin
When Rain Turns to Snow might just be the most original middle grade novel I have ever read. A premise unlike any other that I can recall, this intriguing mystery introduces an u…
The Davitt Awards shortlist 2020
A spotlight on translated fiction this month
Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working for Jungle, a travel company specialising in package holidays to destinations ravaged by disaster. When a senior colleague touches her inappropriately, the co…
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