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Mark Rubbo's acceptance speech for the Lloyd O’Neil Award
Our Managing Director Mark Rubbo recently won the Lloyd O’Neil Award for service to the Australian book industry. The award was announced as part of the 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards.
Here is his acceptance speech from the night.
It’s a great honour to receive this award. Lloyd O’Neil helped set the stage for a truly Australian publishing industry and without him, we perhaps would not be where are today.
I’ve been in the bookselling game for coming up to…
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Enchanted Forest by Johanna Basford
Blood Year - Terror and the Islamic State by David Kilcullen (Quarterly Essay 58)
The Strays by Emily Bitto
Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book by Johanna Basford
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Getting to know our shortlisted authors: Karen Foxlee
Over the last few weeks we’ve been introducing you to the six shortlisted authors on the Readings Children’s Book Prize 2015. (Meet the other five authors here, here and here.) Who are they? Where do their ideas come from? What do they love to read? What do they love to snack on?
We hope you’ll share these mini interviews with your children.
MEET KAREN FOXLEE
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Getting to know our shortlisted authors: Allison Rushby
Over the last few weeks we’ve been introducing you to the six shortlisted authors on the Readings Children’s Book Prize 2015. (Meet the other five authors here, here and here.) Who are they? Where do their ideas come from? What do they love to read? What do they love to snack on?
We hope you’ll share these mini interviews with your children.
MEET ALLISON RUSHBY
which is about three teenagers in 1920s London, and a romance…
What we're reading: Grégoire Chamayou, Oliver Sacks and Atticus Lish
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.
Alison Huber is reading Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
I just finished reading Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish, which was recently announced the winner of the PEN/Faulkner award, and has been getting fantastic reviews all over the place. The story follows the fragile beauty of a relationship…
The best books to take on a long flight
Earlier this week, a customer requested a list of aeroplane reads. Here, different staff share what they consider the ‘perfect’ read for a long-haul flight.
I never buy celebrity magazines until I am faced with a plane trip (of any length) and then suddenly, I must have WHO and NW in my hands. This also applies to books – I read a lot of literary fiction in my everyday life, but I can’t stomach it on a plane…
What I learned from the Level 87 Book Club
100 Story Building is a centre for young writers based in Melbourne’s inner-west, where children and young people from culturally and linguistically diverse and marginalised backgrounds are given the opportunity to foster their creative voice. The Readings Foundation is a proud supporter of the centre.
Readings staff member Bronte Coates recently visited 100 Story Building, and was lucky enough to sit in on their weekly book club for secondary school students.
Last week I met with the Level 87…
Mark Rubbo is named the recipient of the 2015 Lloyd O’Neill Award
Our Managing Director Mark Rubbo has been named the 2015 recipient of the Lloyd O’Neil Award for a person who has made a significant, dedicated contribution to the development and reputation of the Australian book industry. The award was announced at tonight’s Australian Book Industry Awards in Sydney.
Mark is a past president of the Australian Booksellers Association and was founding chair of the Melbourne Writers Festival. In 2006 he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia. In…
Q&A with Michelle Crawford
Our resident foodie Chris Gordon chats with Michelle Crawford about her gorgeous memoir / recipe book, A Table in the Orchard: My Delicious Life.
Your book is a sweet parcel of family adventures and recipes – I love it! – and the move from Sydney to Tasmania with little kids on tow must have been huge. Were you scared? Do you have any advice for others dreaming of greener fields?
People often asked if we were scared, but you…
Entries open for the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Literature
Entries for the Melbourne Prize for Literature 2015 and Awards are now open.
The Melbourne Prize runs on a three-year awards cycle, alternating between literature, music and urban sculpture. This year, the focus returns once more to books, and includes an exciting new $20,000 prize for an essay.
Valued at more than $100,000, the prize and awards offered this year are…
The $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Literature 2015, which is awarded to a Victorian published author whose body of…
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