The Readings blog

Featuring Blood Moon Bride by Demet Divaroren, Let the Light In by Jenny Downham & Louis Hill, A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen, and more!

Featuring On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico and more.

Featuring The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, On the Calculation of Volume: Book I by Solvej Balle, No One Knows by Osamu Dazai and more.

Featuring The Burrow by Melanie Cheng, Black Convicts by Santilla Chingaipe, Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser and more!

Featuring Lyrebird by Jane Caro, Skull River by Pip Fioretti, Strange Pictures by Uketsu, and more!

Find our recommendations to help mark off the bingo square: 'Adapted into a show or movie' from the 2025 Reading(s) Challenge Bingo.

Join us at Readings Carlton to celebrate Record Store Day with exclusive releases and a live performance from Hot Tubs Time Machine

Featuring Alone by Beverley Farmer, Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva and We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer.

Featuring The Sun Was Electric Light by Rachel Morton, Orpheus Nine by Chris Flynn, I Am Nannertgarrook by Tasma Walton, and more!

Featuring First, Cream the Butter and Sugar by Emelia Jackson, Ottolenghi SIMPLE by Yotam Ottolenghi, Philoxenia: A Seat At My Table by Kon and Sia Karapanagiotidis, and more!

Read about some of the most exciting events coming up in the 2025 Melbourne Writer's Festival.

Featuring All Fours by Miranda July, Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout, The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji and more.