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What we're reading: Fiona Wright, Miles Allinson and Charlotte Wood
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.
Jason Austin is reading The Three by Sarah Lotz
The supernatural thriller is a genre that I could never live without. Whenever I am feeling disenchanted by whatever I am reading, I often regress to my teenage self and bury my head in a Stephen King novel.
I was travelling to Bendigo last…
Which recipe is the best from The Great Australian Cookbook?
Yesterday we roadtested some recipes from an excellent new cookbook: The Great Australian Cookbook. Four of our staff selected recipes and two of our staff acted as judges in a bid to find the best one. Here are the results.
Stella Charls made Pierre Khodja’s Couscous with Peas & Mint (pg. 210)
I’m pretty besotted with this cookbook. I think the range of contributors is incredibly impressive, and their recipes feel so personal. I especially love the handwritten comments…
The best new books for teens in October
Stolen emeralds, superheroes and climate change – October is a huge month for young adult fiction, and we’re positive you’ll find your next big read in amongst this haul.
New Australian YA reads
Fans of Vikki Wakefield can now rejoice, because Inbetween Days has finally hit our shelves. Jacklin is trying hard to find her place in the dying town of Mobius, but nothing seems easy. She’s dropped out of school, lost her job and the boy she loves doesn’t…
The best new books for kids in October
This month’s new releases are packed full of some of the biggest authors kidlit has to offer – Shaun Tan, Rick Riordan, Mem Fox to name a few – as well as some great events. Here are the highlights.
A new picture book from Mem Fox and Judy Horacek
Mem Fox and Judy Horacek are a children’s picture book dream team: Where Is the Green Sheep is probably the most memorised book by all visitors under the age of five…
Texts Classics 3-for-2 Sale
This month we’re offering a special deal on Text Classics: buy two books and you’ll receive a third for free.
The Text Classics series is designed to unearth some of the lost marvels of Australian literature. Including works by Elizabeth Harrower, Madeleine St John, Helen Garner, Gerald Murnane and J.M. Coetzee, these classics are only $12.95 each.
Readings’ Managing Director Mark Rubbo recently chatted with Text publisher Michael Heyward about the series, and how Text Publishing became “literary sleuths and…
Our children's and YA top ten bestsellers of the week
The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan
The 65-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
Totally Weird! by Anh Do and Jules Faber
Grandpa’s Great Escape by David Walliams
In My Heart: A Book of Feelings by Jo Witek and Christine Roussey
The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers
Paris Up, Up and Away by Hélène Druvert
What Do You Wish for? by Jane Godwin and Anna Walker
Our top ten bestsellers of the week
Ghost River by Tony Birch
Island Home: A Landscape Memoir by Tim Winton
Faction Man: Bill Shorten’s Path to Power (Quarterly Essay 59) by David Marr
Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Australia’s Second Chance: What Our History Tells Us About Our Future by George Megalogenis
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
Nopi: The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Ramael Scully
The Age Good Food Guide 2016 edited by…
What we're reading: Samantha Wheeler, Denis Johnson and Vendela Vida
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.
Chris Somerville is reading Train Dreams: A Novella by Denis Johnson
I was a big fan of Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son years ago when I read it, and possibly let it have a disastrous effect on my life. I’ve since followed Johnson’s career idly, not reading all his books but taking them up…
Dear Reader, October 2015
You could be forgiven for having no idea where to start with the books of October 2015. I mean, really – this is a bumper month. First, may I suggest you read the new work of Tony Birch? Ghost River is further testament that Melbourne has in Birch both its champion and its quintessential raconteur. It’s our book of the month.
Or perhaps you’d like to start as if it’s the end of the world? How about reading the new…
Mark's Say, October 2015
Have you noticed those cool-looking books with the yellow spine and the Text Publishing colophon? Officially known as Text Classics, at only $12.95 they’re a chance for any of us to discover our literary history and some very good books as well. The series was launched in 2012 with 30 titles and now has about 100 in print.
I asked Text publisher Michael Heyward where he got the idea from and he said it was actually back in 1995, in…
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