The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor Code Name Bananas by David Walliams & Tony Ross Sing Me the Summer by Alison Lester & Jane Godwin The Cousins by Karen M. McManus Bluey: Hooray, It’s Christmas! What We’ll Build by Oliver Jeffers The 130-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey We Are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad Bluey: Verandah Santa …

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Have you been binge-watching as much as we have this year? Don’t let it cut into your reading - here are some TV show-book matches made in heaven.

For fans of The Queen’s Gambit:

Try… The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung

From childhood, Katherine knows she is different, and that her parents are not who they seem to be. As an adult she embarks on a quest to conquer the Riemann hypothesis - th…

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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. Ellen Cregan is reading Please Don’t Hug Me by Kay Kerr

I am notoriously bad at keeping up with all of the wonderful YA releases we get each year - typically I only read one or two. This year I did a little better, and one of the awesome titl…

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Our incoming Readings Monthly editor Jackie Tang shares five of her favourite books from the past year, including poetry, memoir, essays, short stories and YA! Forgotten Corners by Pete Hay

Have you ever read a book and thought to yourself, ‘How have I never read this author before?’ It’s magical, this feeling of discovery, and you immediately want to share it with those around you. I had t…

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Tasmanian writer and environmentalist Pete Hay has been named the winner of the inaugural Small Press Network Book of the Year Award for his stunning essay collection, Forgotten Corners. Published by Walleah Press, this work brings together Hay’s essays that have been published since 2003 and is an urgent, timely read for us all.

The judges commented: ‘Tasmanian poet Pete Hay’s Forgotten Corners…

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Online bookseller and kids and YA author Leanne Hall shares five of her favourite reads from 2020, including an enthralling middle grade fantasy, a gripping crime debut, a highly imaginative anthology of terrific Australian writers, and more. The Republic of Birds by Jessica Miller

This atmospheric middle grade fantasy contains many of my favourite things: folk tales, sentient animals, maps…

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Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart A Promised Land by Barack Obama Ottolenghi FLAVOUR by Yotam Ottolenghi & Ixta Belfrage Loving Country by Bruce Pascoe & Vicky Shukuroglou The Survivors by Jane Harper A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton What Is to Be Done by Barry Jones Death in Daylesford by Kerry Greenwoo…

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Sing Me the Summer by Alison Lester & Jane Godwin Code Name Bananas by David Walliams & Tony Ross Bluey: Hooray, It’s Christmas! The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor Terry Denton’s Really Truly Amazing Guide to Everything by Terry Denton The Cousins by Karen M. McManus The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dangerous Animals by Sami Bayly Explore Your World: Deep Dive into Deep Sea by T…

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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.

Amanda Rayner is reading Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel

Thank goodness for Hilary Mantel this year. In 2020 I have read/re-read over 2000 pages of her writing and the release of her final book in the Wolf Hall trilogy was so exciting that I …

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Tara June Winch has been named the winner of the 2020 Voss Literary Prize 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 granddaughter, August G…

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