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A short recap of our #FerranteFever event
Last week we gathered together a panel of booksellers to discuss the books of Elena Ferrante, a certifiable literary sensation who’s been heralded as the most important Italian novelist of her generation and earned herself a massive following. Since the Australian release of My Brilliant Friend (the first of her Neapolitan Novels) by Text Publishing, Readings have sold thousands of copies of this exceptional novel.
If you’re new to Ferrante, here’s a collection of staff testimonials about her work that…
Fiona Hardy interviews Alecia Simmonds
Our crime fiction specialist, Fiona Hardy, chats to author Alecia Simmonds about Wild Man.
On a strange dark night in April 2012, a peaceful gathering at a remote property in New South Wales was marked by violence when Evan Johnson threatened people with a crossbow and was shot by police. These are the bare bones of Johnson’s story; in Wild Man, Alecia Simmonds does some digging. We follow Simmonds as she heads deep into the heart of this…
Our children's and YA top ten bestsellers of the week
The 65-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers
In My Heart: A Book of Feelings by Jo Witek and Christine Roussey
Rivertime by Trace Balla
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers
Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories by R.J. Palacio
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness (Exclusive edition)
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Our top ten bestsellers of the week
Nopi: The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Ramael Scully
The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz (translated by George Goulding)
ST Gill & His Audiences by Sasha Grishin
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
The Handbook: Surviving and Living with Climate Change by James Whitmore and Jane Rawson
Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book by Johanna Basford
We…
What we're reading: Janet Hawley, Lauren Holmes and Marcus Westbury
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 Gordon is reading Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden by Janet Hawley
If you enjoy the romance of dappled light, the glory of mixed leaves and the sanctuary that a garden can provide, Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden is for you.
I simply cannot get enough of this book. It is…
A recipe from Nopi: the cookbook - Courgette and manouri fritters
These were first developed for the NOPI breakfast menu by Sarit Packer and John Meechan, during the restaurant’s early days. Rumour spread and, due to popular demand, they quickly made their way on to the lunchtime and supper menus as well, where they’ve remained ever since.
They make a lovely light lunch or impressive starter and are also great as a snack or canapé with drinks. If you are serving them as a snack, make them slightly smaller – 1…
Chart Collective have launched a new project
by Jocelyn RichardsonMelbourne not-for-profit publisher Chart Collective is inviting submissions of anonymous true micro-stories set in the Melbourne’s CBD for their I Was Here project. Founding editor Jocelyn Richardson tells us more.
So often as I retrace paths I’ve walked through the city, tumultuous memories come back to me. Passing greasy bins in laneways, crossing the tram tracks, heading up the hill to the Parisian end, ducking into a bookshop, and stopping next door for a beer at the counter, I think…
Exciting September reads for teens
I’ll admit it: I’m an eavesdropper. Whenever I work in the Carlton store, I eavesdrop on the books people are excited about, and in the last few weeks most of the conversations have gone like this:
“Hey, look, YA new releases.”
“Yeah, that one looks good. And that one, and – oh my god…”
“What? What?”
“It’s… the… new… PATRICK NESS!””
Of course, this level of excitement will come as no surprise to anybody who’s ever read a Patrick Ness…
Exciting September reads for kids
Spring is here. I’m excited. Are you excited?
It is exciting. The sun is shining, the birds are singing…well, not right now. As I write this the rain is still drizzling and the world is pretty grey, but it does seem like winter’s time is nearly up and it’ll be safe to venture outside again.
One family was in our Carlton store over the weekend buying books they could read together in the park, which doesn’t sound like the worst…
Man Booker Prize Shortlist 2015
The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize has been announced!
The winner of the Man Booker Prize will receive £50,000 prize. This is the second year that the Prize has been open to writers of all nationalities writing in English.
The six shortlisted novels are:
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne…
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