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New Australian fiction at Melbourne Writers Festival 2016
As part of this year’s Melbourne Writer’s Festival (MWF), we’re hosting a series showcasing a range of new Australian fiction. Each morning session is free and features two debut or early career authors, back to back, each in conversation about their book with a Readings bookseller.
For more MWF inspiration, we’ve compiled a list of terrific international guests, and our staff have shared the events they’re most excited to attend. You can also browse the full Festival program…
Why you should read Liane Moriarty
We’re so excited that Liane Moriarty’s new book, Truly Madly Guilty, hits the shelves today. Here, our booksellers tell you why you should get stuck into her big, complex novels.
‘I scored an advance copy of Truly Madly Guilty at a conference a couple of months ago, and it’s been languishing in TBR pile since then – despite much badgering from my workmates who thought I would enjoy the author’s writing. With the release imminent I finally picked it…
Memoirs and essays about depression and anxiety
So Sad Today by Melissa Broder
Inspired by her own experience with panic attacks and dread, acclaimed poet Melissa Broder wrote So Sad Today , exploring the existential themes of sex, death, love, low self-esteem, addiction, and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back. With insights as sharp as her humor, Broder explores what it really means to be a person in this modern world.
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
Shortlisted for this year’s Wellcome Prize…
An update from the Readings Foundation
The Readings Foundation assists Victorian organisations that support the development of literacy, community integration and the arts. Grants Officer Leanne Hall visited the Church of All Nations Family Learning Program recently – one of the seven projects being supported by the Foundation in 2016.
One of the fantastic things about the Readings Foundation is that we have been able to support local, grass-roots organisations – some so local that they’re within walking distance of our Carlton store! This is the…
Our top ten bestsellers of the week
The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
The Dry by Jane Harper
Vinegar Girl: The Taming of the Shrew Retold by Anne Tyler
The Girls by Emma Cline
Music and Freedom by Zoë Morrison
Ruins by Rajith Savanadasa
The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft by Tom Griffiths
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith
We were delighted to have…
Our children's and YA top ten bestsellers of the week
The Road to Winter by Mark Smith
Run, Pip, Run by J.C. Jones
The Boy with Two Lives by Abbas Kazerooni
The World’s Worst Children by David Walliams and Tony Ross
The BFG by (film tie-in edition) by Roald Dahl (including other editions)
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
The Bad Guys: Episode 1 by Aaron Blabey
Tom Gates: Super Good Skills (Almost) (Book 10) by Liz Pichon
Charlie and the War Against the Grannies by Alan Brough
What we're reading: Justin Cronin, Pearl S. Buck and Andy Weir
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.
Leanne Hall is reading Three Daughters of Madame Liang by Pearl S. Buck
It’s been on my mind for a while that I should read Pearl S. Buck – a Nobel Prize-winning American author who wrote prolifically about China – so imagine how pleased I was to discover an out-of-print hardcover edition of…
Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards Winners 2016
Congratulations to the winners of the Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards for 2016: Lucy Treloar and Fiona Wright!
The Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards are open to Australian women writers who have published a book of fiction or non-fiction classifiable as ‘life writing’.
Lucy Treloar has received the $5,000 Dobbie Literary Award (for a first-time author) for her debut novel, Salt Creek.
Set in 1855, Stanton Finch and his family have fallen on hard times and relocated to Salt…
Best new crime reads in July
CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
Black Teeth by Zane Lovitt
If you are a local who decides to rush out and buy Black Teeth just after you read this review, you’ll find yourself with the ultimate literary luxury: reading a book in July in Melbourne set in a Melbourne July not so long ago. When you turn the pages you’ll be wearing gloves, just like Jason Ginaff does a lot of the time, since he’s the kind of guy who…
Closing down sale at Readings Bargains pop-up shop
The Readings Bargains pop-up shop is entering its final weeks, and as a last hurrah they’re hosting a final big sale!
Drop by the pop-up shop at 315 Lygon Street, right next door to our Carlton shop, before mid-August and you’ll be able to pick up any book from in-store for just $7. Though, only while stocks last.
Titles currently on offer include prize-winning fiction such as Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles, bestselling crime novels such as Joël…
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