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Pride in children’s books
Elvi has two mums, and they’re both her real mum. But when her playmate Nicholas still needs to know more, Elvi’s imagination runs wild. Her real mum is a circus performer, and a pirate, and she even t…
ALS Gold Medal 2020 shortlist
The Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal is awarded annually for an outstanding literary work published in the preceding year.
Here are the shortlisted books for 2020:
Element by Jordie Albiston
Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
Congratulations to all the authors on the s…
Non-fiction books to expand your mind in May
In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined people are getting ready. They are environmentalists who fear th…
Recommended reads from non-binary authors
This is the second poetry collection from Mununjali Yugambeh writer Ellen van Neerven. Exploring love, language and land, van Neerven flexes…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
There are plenty of famili…
Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
Are youn…
A book-giving program
Here at Readings, we receive numerous books from publishers for reviewing and marketing purposes. These books are normally proofs – early editions of a book that have not yet been proofread and may contain errors. They are printed so that booksellers and media may read the book ahead of time, and they usually don’t feature the book’s final cover, and sometimes more editorial changes will be made …
Our top picks for book clubs this month
At an internment camp in Indonesia, 47 people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. Henry Parsons – microbiologist, epidemiologist – travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, and what he finds will have repercussions across the globe: an infected man is…
Eight great new queer YA books
Two teenage girls from opposite ends of California are assigned as school pen pals in 1977…
Chris Gordon’s self-isolation cooking diary: Week 8
Likely, you are reading this column because you are part of the Readings family. You believe that independent bookshops make a difference to our community, that they are worthy of support. And as restrictions around Covid-19 begin to relax and our social paramet…
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