The Readings blog

Halloween may be a distant, sugary-hazed memory, but the children’s and YA line-up this month has a horrifying theme - from the creepy to the downright silly. This Is Not A Test It’s the end of the world. Six students…

This year we’ve seen a bumper crop of books, music and film and over the next few weeks we’ll be presenting a series of our favourites, voted for and selected by Readings’ staff. Here, our resident foodie, Chris Gordon, shares…

This year we’ve seen a bumper crop of books, music and film and over the next few weeks we’ll be presenting a series of our favourites, voted for and selected by Readings’ staff. Here classical specialists Kate Rockstrom and Phil…

Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 National Book Awards, presented to U.S. authors for the best books published in the United States during the award year: Nonfiction: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai…

This year we’ve seen a bumper crop of books, music and film and over the next few weeks we’ll be presenting our favourites, voted for and selected by Readings staff. Here Fiona Hardy shares her top ten crime books from…

Book-lovers share some of their old and new favourites for reading aloud to children at bedtime. This month, Melbourne-based author-illustrator Kylie Dunstan with Sylvie, 7, and Camille, 11. My girls are 7 and 11 and reading pretty happily by themselves…

Readings Monthly It is possible to think about reading as a series of turning points. Every now and then, a book comes along like a shock – making and breaking, staying with you. It’s an ‘ah’ moment of recognition, when…

Ramona Koval chats with us about her new book, In I confess to being a technology enthusiast. When I was writing about books I remembered but didn’t have anymore, gutenberg.org had them digitised and waiting for me. When I wanted…

The six contributors to Griffith REVIEW’s latest annual fiction edition, Mary-Rose MacColl recommends… Amanda Lohrey’s Vertigo tells a haunting story with the beauty and austerity of the Australian coastal bush as its setting. This novella has many elements a great…

The Guardian First Book Award 2012 shortlist has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Sandstorm: The Inside Story Of Gaddafi’s Regime by Lindsey Hilsum Behind the Beautiful…

Paul Daley chats with Jessica Au about his new book, Canberra When my initial excitement at being invited to write Canberra subsided into reality I was overwhelmed. But I did what I always do with a big non-fiction piece –…

The Young Australian’s Best Book Awards (YABBA) for 2012 have been announced, with all the winning books selected by children. Founded in 1985 by a group of Victorians keen to see children engage in reading Australian books, YABBA has the…