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A Most Magical Girl by Karen Foxlee Begin, End, Begin (A #LoveOzYA Anthology) edited by Danielle Binks The Bad Guys Episode 5: Intergalactic Gas by Aaron Blabey A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thrones and Roses…

Fighting Hislam by Susan Carland Work Strife Balance by Mia Freedman Into the Water by Paula Hawkins Depends What You Mean by Extremist by John Safran The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose The Australian Bird Guide by various …

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 Mark Rubbo is reading Spoils by Brian Van Reet Set in Iraq in 2003 just…

There’s something both delicious and dangerous about working in a bookshop. Every other day, I discover a new – or old – book that I suddenly can’t live without. It’s tempting enough working on the shop floor at Readings Doncaster…

A perennial and tricky question that booksellers often hear is what to gift someone who is pregnant. Tricky because expectant mothers are not a separate breed to the rest of humanity and – like all of us – have changing…

Melbourne based artist (and St Kilda bookseller!) Adam John Cullen is one of 78 dynamic Australian artists featured in Melissa Loughnan’s Australiana to Zeitgeist. We chat with Adam about his practice, and the best ways to learn more about…

Like Australian publishing generally, university publishing in Australia has gone through its ups and downs. Melbourne University Publishing has dominated the sector for the last 30 years or so, but like many Australian publishers, it’s had to adjust to a…

Film critics Mel Campbell and Anthony Morris have teamed up to create The Hot Guy, a satirical rom-com that both sends up and pays tribute to movies, romantic conventions, and inner-city Melbourne – complete with hipster jokes, fake film…

The winner of this year’s Readings Children’s Book Prize is A Most Magical Girl by Karen Foxlee! The Readings Children’s Book Prize recognises and celebrates Australian books that children love to read and raises the profile of debut and on-the-rise…

The longlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced. Congratulations to all all the authors and publishers. The longlisted titles are The Easy Way Out by Steve Amsterdam An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire The Last Days…

The Australian Book Industry Awards Academy has announced the ABIA Book shortlists for 2017. For the first time, the fastest-growing book publishing segment in the world is acknowledged with an ABIA for Audiobook of the Year. Congratulations to all the…

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo The Bad Guys Episode 5: Intergalactic Gas by Aaron Blabey The Boy and the Spy by Felice Arena The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo Book 2)…