Ilka Tampke has been named the winner of year’s Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA) for her gripping historical novel, Songwoman.

Set in Iron-Age Britain in the middle of the Roman invasion, Songwoman is an evocative imagining of ancient British history told through the perspective of the enigmatic Ailia. With evocations of Arthurian legend and Celtic mythology, Songwoman blends all the pleasurabl…

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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be compiling a host of gift guides to help you with your Christmas shopping. The Harry Potter books inspire so much love and devotion that they’re an extremely hard reading act to follow. Luckily for you we’ve compiled a list of our sure-fire post-Harry fantasy series to read. The Worldquake Sequence

You never really know how it’s going to turn out when an ac…

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With the end of 2019 drawing ever-nearer, we look back at some of the biggest and buzziest books of the past months. Here are 21 of the most talked-about books of the year, and you can find even more by browsing the collection below. Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The eviden…

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Congratulations to the winners of this year’s National Book Awards. Fiction

The 2019 winner is Trust Exercise by Susan Choi.

In their first term at a highly competitive performing arts high school, two students, Sarah and David, fall deeply and obsessively in love. Under the care of their magnetic and manipulative drama instructor Mr. Kingsley, they and their peers exist in a rarefied bubb…

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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be compiling a host of gift guides to help you with your Christmas shopping. Here are 20 gift ideas under $20, perfect for office Kris Kringles and other Christmas needs. Find even more budget-friendly suggestions by browsing the collections below. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (translated by Geoffrey Trousselot)

In a small back alley in …

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Pia Spreadborough has worked at Readings since 2010, moonlighting at various stores, managing book launches and more. She now works in the Readings warehouse as a member of our busy online dispatch and receiving teams. Here, she chats about books and what happens when you turn feminism into a commodity, and shares the disaster artists she’d invite to a dinner party. What is your favourite part…

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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be compiling a host of gift guides to help you with your Christmas shopping. The friend who has everything… Your friend has everything huh? Well… We bet they don’t have An Underground Guide to Sewers! Featuring infographics and odd facts, this surprisingly beautiful book will transport them into the surreal world underneath our cities.

If your friend is known …

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Superpower: Australia’s Low-Carbon Opportunity by Ross Garnaut Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas Peace by Garry Disher Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume One, 1978-1987 by Helen Garner Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe The Anarchy by William Dalrymple Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Westwind by Ian Rankin The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

November new releases have had a…

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Bluey: Time to Play! (Sticker Activity Book) Bluey: The Beach (A Lift-the-Flap Book) Bluey: Fruit Bat (A Glow-in-the-Dark Book) Wrecking Ball (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 14) by Jeff Kinney Animalphabet by Julia Donaldson & Sharon King-Chai Explore Your World by Tim Flannery & Sam Caldwell Welcome to Country (Youth Edition) by Marcia Langton Guts by Raina Telgemeier Funny Bones by Kate Temple, J…

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Every year our staff vote for their favourite books, albums, films and TV shows of the past 12 months. Here’s a round up of all the blog posts featuring our best books, music & DVDs of 2019:

The Best Australian Fiction Books of 2019 The Best International Fiction Books of 2019 The Best Non-Fiction Books of 2019 The Best Crime Books of 2019 The Best Food & Gardening Books of 2019 The Best Art & …

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