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Our 2016 Christmas Gift Guide: What to buy your parents
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be compiling a host of gift guides to help you with your Christmas shopping.
If they have an artistic sensibility…
Margaret Preston sheds light on the private life of the much-loved Australian artist, featuring her work, photographs and even recipes.
In The Secret Lives of Colour, Kassia St Clair tells the unusual stories of 75 shades, dyes and hues, delving into history, politics and more.
Plant combines photographs and cutting-edge micrograph scans with…
Our 2016 Christmas Gift Guide: What to buy your significant other
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be compiling a host of gift guides to help you with your Christmas shopping.
If they’re in need of a good laugh…
When Jamie Morton’s dad wrote a self-published erotic novel, Jamie did what few among us would do – he turned the experience into a smash-hit podcast with two friends. My Dad Wrote a Porno is the hilarious annotated book edition of the original erotic novel.
The Wonder Trail is the story of…
Our 2016 Christmas Gift Guide: What to buy your siblings (and other relatives)
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be compiling a host of gift guides to help you with your Christmas shopping.
If they collect interesting facts…
Adam Spencer’s Time Machine is 2016’s ultimate compendium for curious minds, packed with quizzes, anecdotes and trivia.
In Weird Dinosaurs, John Pickrell examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies radically transforming our understanding of these creatures.
Featuring Wired writer Matt Simon’s signature blend of science smarts and humour, The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar…
Our 2016 Christmas Gift Guide: What to buy your children
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be compiling a host of gift guides to help you with your Christmas shopping.
FOR AGES 0 - 2
A sauntering cat is seen quite differently through the eyes of a range of different animals in They All Saw A Cat. Little people will pore over the clever visual clues in this deceptively simple perfect picture book.
Admirers of Oliver Jeffers’ playful illustrations will love his idiosyncratic alphabet book, An Alphabet, presented…
Our children's and YA top ten bestsellers of the week
Double Down (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 11) by Jeff Kinney
Wormwood Mire (A Stella Montgomery Intrigue) by Judith Rossell
Out by Angela May George and Owen Swan
The 78-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
Gemina (The Illuminae Files_02) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Lots by Marc Martin
Artie and the Grime Wave by Richard Roxburgh
Hotdog: Book 1 by Anh Do and Dan McGuiness
We Found a Hat by Jon Klassen
Ada…
Our top ten bestsellers of the week
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Smith & Daughters: A Cookbook (That Happens to be Vegan) by Shannon Martinez and Mo Wyse
Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford
The Good People by Hannah Kent
Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison
True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by David Hunt
The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton
Rather be the Devil by Ian Rankin
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
What we're reading: Jane Harper, Idra Novey and Frank Norris
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.
Ed Moreno is reading Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey
I picked Ways to Disappear off the shelf to have a look and it stopped me in my tracks. From the opening sentence, I was intrigued. I bought a copy that night and read it over the next few days. It’s one of…
Get ready for Christmas with Readings
November has arrived, which means December is about to arrive, and with it – Christmas. We’re here to help make your Christmas shopping as easy and painless as possible!
Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing our curated gift guides, sharing our top 10 best books, CDs and DVDs of the year, and releasing our annual Summer Reading Guide which is jam-packed with recommendations. We’ll also be sharing a host of one-off offers for our customers, including signed…
Introducing The Garret, a new literary podcast
The Garret is a new Melbourne-based literary podcast that explores how the best of the best start, draft, complete and market their writing.
We’re pleased to be a supporter, alongside the State Library of Victoria, Swinburne University and Writers Victoria.
The Garret’s first episode features an interview with Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, who co-authored the bestselling YA sci-fi space opera trilogy, The Illuminae Files. The first book in the trilogy, Illuminae won both the 2016 Inky…
Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA) shortlist 2016
The Small Press Network (SPN) have announced the four titles shortlisted for the 2016 Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA).
Open to all members of the Small Press Network, the MUBA is designed to highlight titles that did not garner the sales or recognition they deserved at the time of release.
The shortlisted titles for this year are:
A Man Made Entirely of Bats by Patrick Lenton (Spineless Wonders)
Clancy of the Undertow by Christopher Currie (Text Publishing)
Creating Cities by…
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