Readings Foundation Grants Officer Gabrielle Williams shares a brief recap of a special event we hosted last night to celebrate the Booker Prize and to raise money for the Readings Foundation.

Last night a group of like-minded Melbournians gathered at Tolarno’s to eat delicious food, drink delicious wine, and debate the likely winner of the Booker Prize.

Everyone put forward their picks of ‘W…

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The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, Volume 2) by Philip Pullman Guts by Raina Telgemeier Welcome to Country (Youth Edition) by Marcia Langton The Bad Guys Episode 10: The Baddest Day Ever by Aaron Blabey Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe How to Make a Movie in Twelve Days by Fiona Hardy All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors by Davina Bell and Jenny Løvlie The Treehouse Joke Book by Andy …

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If you haven’t yet gleaned from that annoying workmate who keeps asking if you’ve watched it (guilty), the HBO drama Succession is one of the breakout TV shows of the year. Now on its second season, it’s a slick roller-coaster of corporate intrigue and high-stakes power plays filled with hilariously biting one-liners and Machiavellian family dynamics.

As we prepare to hear the dramatic piano pli…

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Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson The Testaments by Margaret Atwood Maybe the Horse Will Talk by Elliot Perlman Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner The Wife and the Widow by Christian White There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett Buckley’s Chance by Garry Linnell Three Women by Lisa Taddeo Other People’s Houses by Hilary McPhee

Bruce Pascoe has …

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International Day of the Girl Child aims to highlight and address the needs and challenges girls face, while promoting girls' empowerment and the fulfillment of their human rights. In honour of the 2019 theme ‘GirlForce: Unscripted and Unstoppable’ we recommend our favourite books that celebrate girls who dream, achieve, break boundaries, overcome barriers, innovate and initiate. Sisters: Ve…

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This year the Swedish Academy has announced two winners of the Nobel prize for literature: Polish author Olga Tokarczuk for 2018, and Austrian author Peter Handke for 2019.

The Swedish Academy selected Tokarczuk as the 2018 winner ‘for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life’. An activist and frequent critic of Poland’s polit…

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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 Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

Late to the game, I have finally joined my colleagues in their love for Megan Abbott. I’m reading Give Me Your Hand. It’s a story about female friendship that I know is about to go terr…

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Our staff are big fans of Ann Patchett and so we’re thrilled to have her new book in store this month! The Dutch House is a modern day fairytale of family, love and betrayal. Here are a sample of our booksellers' glowing early responses to the novel.

‘ The Dutch House is the life story of Danny Conroy, a frank and reliable narrator. It begins as his parents move to the impressive and ostentati…

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For book clubs in search of a taut, relentless thriller Silver by Chris Hammer

Journalist Martin Scarsden vowed never to return to his hometown of Port Silver, but his new partner, Mandy, has inherited a house there so Martin takes a chance. He’s hopeful he can rediscover the town’s beauty – until his arrival coincides with the brutal death of his old friend Jasper…and Mandy is the chief sus…

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There has been plenty of upheaval in British politics in recent months. If you’re looking to explore this turmoil in fiction, here are some novels in which five British authors tackle the topic of Brexit head on. The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy

Saul is hit by a car on the Abbey Road crossing – twice, once in 1988, the year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and again in 2016, ju…

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