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St Kilda booksellers share their favourite banned books
In celebration of Banned Books Week, our St Kilda booksellers have shared some of their own favourite banned or challenged books.
Amy Vuleta on Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence:
My mother tells a story about my grandparents and their friends passing a contraband copy of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, smuggled in from Europe, around their social group in country Queensland in the early 1960s. I was quite scandalised by this fact when I read the novel…
Our children's and YA top ten bestsellers of the week
The 65-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
The Singing Bones by Shaun Tan
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
Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories by R.J. Palacio
The 13-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton
How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury by Cressida Cowell (How to Train Your Dragon Book 12)
Cloudwish by Fiona Wood
Our top ten bestsellers of the week
Faction Man: Bill Shorten’s Path to Power (Quarterly Essay 59) by David Marr
Island Home: A Landscape Memoir by Tim Winton
The Age Good Food Guide 2016 edited by Roslyn Grundy
Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski
Make Me by Lee Child
Nopi: The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Ramael Scully
A Mother’s Story by Rosie Batty with Bryce Corbett
ST Gill & His Audiences by Sasha Grishin
Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book by Johanna Basford
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What we're reading: Hanya Yanagihara, Clare Wright and Megan Abbott
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.
Holly Harper is reading We are the Rebels: The Women and Men Who Made Eureka by Clare Wright
One of the first things I did when I was a brand new resident of Victoria was visit Sovereign Hill in Ballarat. I loved it: the old-fashioned lolly shop, the candle-making, the panning for gold…
Is Nopi home cook friendly?
We’ve had some questions from customers about the new cookbook from Ottolenghi, all of which boil down to just one main concern: Is Nopi home cook friendly? Our resident foodie Chris Gordon investigates.
If you are considering purchasing Nopi, the lush new cookbook from Yotam Ottlenghi and Ramael Scully, I already know you are one of two types of people.
Either: 1. You are a qualified chef, or 2. You are, like me, an armchair traveller cook. If you’re…
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…
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