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Recommended new YA books in June
This month we’re spoilt for choice with new books from three favourite Australian authors. We also get our mitts on the next instalments in several bestselling series, and we announce the shortlist for our very first Readings Young Adult Prize.
(Find our best recommendations for kids’ books this month here.)
LOVEOZYA PICKS
A new book from Vikki Wakefield is always cause for celebration (and a possible stampede to the bookshop…). Her latest is Ballad for a Mad Girl –…
Recommended new kids' books in June
This month we’re excited by swimming unicorns, the first book of a new series by Sally Rippin, a middle fiction novel with a Tibetan setting and tween crime thrills.
(Find our best recommendations for teen books this month here.)
PICTURE BOOKS
We’re a little bit obsessed with unicorns here at Readings, and Not Quite Narwhal has been a sweet addition to our shelves. Kelp is a sea-dwelling unicorn with an identity crisis – he’s not a narwhal, but he’s…
The Wainwright Golden Beer Prize longlist 2017
The Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize is awarded annually to the book which most successfully reflects the ethos of renowned nature writer Alfred Wainwright’s work, to inspire readers to explore the outdoors and to nurture a respect for the natural world.
Here are the 12 longlisted books for 2017:
Love of Country by Madeleine Bunting
The Otter’s Tale by Simon Cooper
The Nature of Autumn by Jim Crumley
Foxes Unearthed by Lucy Jones
The Running Hare by John Lewis-Stempel
Our top ten bestsellers of the week
Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
Ache by Eliza Henry-Jones
The Clever Guts Diet by Michael Mosley
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Depends What You Mean by Extremist by John Safran
The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
Our bestseller of the week is Anything is Possible, the…
Our children's and YA top ten bestsellers of the week
Storm Whale by Sarah Brennan and Jane Tanner
The Wayward Witch and the Feelings Monster (Polly and Buster Book 1) by Sally Rippin
A Most Magical Girl by Karen Foxlee
Boone Shepard’s American Adventure by Gabriel Bergmoser
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
The World’s Worst Children 2 by David Walliams and Tony Ross
Family, Friends and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates Book 12) by Liz Pichon
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What we're reading: Emma Chastain, Sarah Bailey & Simon Rowe
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.
Nina Kenwood is reading The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey
The Dark Lake is a terrific Australian crime fiction debut. Set in rural NSW, it opens with a dead body in a lake and a police detective juggling lots of complicated secrets. It has the small town mystery of The Dry, the police procedural…
Dear Reader, June 2017
Knowing I am among friends, I can confess to expressing inappropriate book-related outrage on occasion. ‘What do you mean you haven’t read The Handmaid’s Tale?’, I exclaimed to a colleague last year. So strong is my feeling that this book must be read, the words involuntarily escaped my mouth. One must be careful, of course, in casting this kind of judgement, because, let’s face it, we all have our own list of Very Important Books we haven’t read. My…
Jamila Rizvi interviews Briohny Doyle
by Jamila RizviJamila Rizvi interviews Briohny Doyle about her memoir of ‘adulthood’, Adult Fantasy.
Briohny Doyle and I are seduced by the same kinds of clickbait.
Acknowledged collectively with the hybrid term ‘listicle’, these are the stories Buzzfeed pioneered but that are now produced en masse by everyone from Cosmopolitan to Business Insider. Thirty things you should know by thirty, 12 signs you’re ready to settle down, What percentage ‘grown up’ are you really? and, of course, How…
The ABA Bookselling Awards
We’re delighted to share the news that three of our wonderful staff members have been shortlisted in the ABA Bookselling Awards by the Australian Booksellers Association. The award recognises a bookseller not only for their exceptional performance within the bookshop that they work but also for their achievements within the book industry as well as the local and wider community.
, online children’s specialist, and Grants Officer for the
. She is a passionate advocate of…
Vinyl picks of the month
St Kilda Music Buyer Declan Murphy shares his high-rotation vinyl obsessions of this month.
Wrecking Crew (soundtrack)
Here is the soundtrack to the truly fab 2015 documentary of the same name. In the tradition of Standing in the Shadows of Motown’s tribute to the Funk Brothers, The Wrecking Crew focused on the eponymous collective of West Coast session musicians who played on a bewildering amount of influential records throughout the 60s. From Spector to Sinatra, from the Beach Boys to…