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What we're reading: Pierre Lemaitre, Richard Denniss and Frances Hardinge
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.
Mark Rubbo is reading The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre
I’ve just started this novel from Pierre Lemaitre. Lemaitre is known for his crime stories, but The Great Swindle is actually a work of historical fiction. It won the Prix Goncourt (a major literary prize for French literature) back in 2013, but was…
The Man Booker International Prize longlist 2016
The first ever longlist for the Man Booker International Prize has been announced today. This year, the Man Booker International Prize has joined forces with the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated by Daniel Hahn (Angola)
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein (Italy)
The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith (South Korea)
Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Jessica Moore…
The Stella Prize shortlist 2016
Congratulations to the six authors shortlisted for this year’s Stella Prize! The full shortlist is listed here:
A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower
Hope Farm by Peggy Frew (Read review)
Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett Daylight (Read review)
Small Acts of Disappearance by Fiona Wright (Read review)
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood (Read review)
The World Without Us by Mireille Juchau
Chair of…
Our favourite new children's books in March
Graveyard girls, social change and greedy pugs – here are our top book picks for kids this month.
Pig the Winner by Aaron Blabey
Pig was a pug
Oh Pig. He’s greedy and grumpy and so badly behaved – and it’s hard not to love him. Aaron Blabey first introduced readers to Pig’s greediness in Pig the Pug, and then showed us all what a terrible liar Pig is in Pig the Fibber. Now he’s back, and it’s…
20% off the Bloomsbury Revelations series
We’re offering 20% off the Bloomsbury Revelations series in March.
The Bloomsbury Revelations series features thinkers who have fundamentally shaped the way we see the modern world, and includes books by Jacques Derrida, Henri Lefebvre, René Girard, Leo Tolstoy, Winston Churchill, Homer, Susan Strange, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor W. Adorno, Constantin Stanislavski, Gilles Deleuze and more.
The full range is available at our Carlton shop; selected titles are available at our Hawthorn, Malvern and St Kilda shops, as well as online…
6 must-read YA books in March
This month in YA has shadowhunters, yearbook committees and trolley collectors – something for everyone!
The Way We Roll by Scot Gardner
Will pushes shopping trolleys in the rough part of town and lives beneath a bowling alley – all this despite the fact that he comes from a wealthy family and used to attend the prestigious St Alfie’s school. Julian, on the other hand, has been in and out of juvie and doesn’t quite know what to make of…
Four new inspiring true stories of Australian women
Taking Flight by Kristen Alexander
From her first taste of the air when she joined Bert Hinkler in the cockpit for a joy ride in 1928, Lores Bonney was hooked. With her aviation licence and the support of her husband, she took to the Australian and international skies and braved the challenge of long-distance flying – breaking numerous records along the way. Drawing on diary extracts, published recollections, interviews, documents and newspaper accounts, Taking Flight celebrates this audacious pilot’s aerial…
The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 longlist
The longlist for this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced.
Here is the full longlist:
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (Read our review)
Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett (Read our review)
Ruby by Cynthia Bond
The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks (Read our review)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Read our review)
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton
Readings shortlisted for LBF's Bookstore of the Year Award
We’re honoured to have been shortlisted for the London Book Fair’s Bookstore of the Year Award for 2016! Readings has been shortlisted alongside three other bookstores: Hoepli in Italy, Rahva Raamat in Estonia, and Sanlian Bookhouse in China.
Managing director Mark Rubbo says, ‘It’s such a thrill and a wonderful acknowledgement for a great team of booksellers, wonderful writers, innovative Australian publishers and beautiful customers. I am so pleased and proud to be amongst this group of booksellers from around…
The most interesting women we've met in books
Happy International Women’s Day. Here our staff share some of the most interesting women they’ve met in books.
There’s a lot of hate out there for the character of Sansa Stark, but I’m going to come out and say that I think she’s one of the most interesting, smartest, and strongest characters in George R.R. Martin’s Westeros. Over the course of five novels we’ve seen her evolve from a naive young girl who believes in the romantic ideals that she…
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