CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH

And Fire Came Down by Emma Viskic

Since Emma Viskic’s debut novel Resurrection Bay took out two of Australia’s biggest crime awards – the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and a slew of Davitt Awards – readers have been waiting for the sequel. Here it is: a spectacular return to the world of the brittle Caleb Zelic, a private investigator whose office has been moved by financial necessity into his apartment. A man…

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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (including sales of other editions)

Halliday Wine Companion 2018 by James Halliday

Common People by Tony Birch

Watching Out by Julian Burnside

The Twentieth Man by Tony Jones

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape

Baby Lost by Hannah Robert

On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

Our bestselling book of last week is Margaret Atwood’s…

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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo

The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon

A Most Magical Girl by Karen Foxlee

The Wayward Witch and the Feelings Monster (Polly and Buster Book 1) by Sally Rippin

In My Heart by Jo Witek and Christine Roussey

In My Room by Jo Witek and Christine Roussey

The World’s Worst Children 2 by David Walliams and Tony Ross

Bitter Enemies (Friday Barnes Book 7) by R.A. Spratt

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Book-to-film adaptations can be contentious, and especially if you feel a lot of affection for the original story. Here, our work experience student Danielle Roche reflects on what makes a good adaptation work, and shares five of her favourites.

Whenever a new trailer for an upcoming film that’s based on a book I’ve read is released, I always feel a rush of excitement in the lead up, waiting to see a novel I’ve loved on the big screen. Yet most…

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Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.

Ellen Cregan is reading two memoirs that explore dark territory

I recently read The Trauma Cleaner, an amazing biography due to hit shelves in October. It tells the story of Sandra Pankhurst, a woman who runs a cleaning business. Except this isn’t any ordinary cleaning business – it is one that deals in astronomical…

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Author Anna George reflects on how a lack of sleep informed her second novel, The Lone Child – a gripping, atmospheric story of early motherhood.

We recently interviewed George over on the Readings Podcast. You can listen to our conversation with her here.

I’d never heard of a sleep debt until after I was seriously in the red – having spent months sleeping four or five hours a night. I now know that your sleep debt is the difference…

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We’re delighted to announce we have won the Store Fit-Out of the Year award at the 2017 eftpos Australian Retail Awards!

We won this award for the design of our two newest bookshops – Readings Doncaster and Readings Kids. Both shops were designed by local Melbourne architecture firm Nest.

Readings Doncaster’s design captures the feel of an open book by using curved arches and curved wooden slats in the entryway, and the interior further highlights this aesthetic with arched…

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Three booksellers on why you need to start reading Megan Abbott.

‘Megan Abbott’s psychological thrillers are dreamy, immersive, knife-sharp explorations of adolescent girlhood: competition, emerging sexuality, expectations and self-realisation. Those ordinary dramas are made extraordinary by being embedded in gripping, fast-paced mysteries.

In The Fever, the girls at one high school are falling suddenly, mysteriously ill, one by one, in what seems to be a mix of contagious hysteria and demonic possession. Is it linked to sexual activity?

And…

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Looking to complete your collection of classics? Well, now is your chance…

Buy any two Routledge Classics throughout August and receive a third free!

From titles by Judith Butler to Jean-Paul Satre, Jacques Lacan to bell hooks, readers of cultural theory and philosophy will find much to love here.

Browse some of the highlights online below, or come in-store to discover the full range.

This offer is available until 31 August in our Carlton and Hawthorn shops only, on stickered…

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This month we read about an impulsive monster on the lookout for a new friend, play basketball with Patty Mills, and celebrate a new book by much-loved author Emily Rodda.

Find our best recommendations for teen books this month here.

OUR CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE MONTH

Jo Witek and Christine Roussey can do no wrong in our eyes. In My Room is a quirky and colourful addition to their popular Growing Hearts series, in which a little girl uses…

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