We’re thrilled to see Readings Kids specialist and all-around children’s literature rockstar Kathy Kozlowski named as the recipient of the Pixie O’Harris Award for her contribution to Australian children’s literature. Congratulations Kathy!

The Pixie O’Harris Award is part of the Australian Publisher’s Association’s book industry ‘Hall of Fame’ awards. It recognises members of the book industry …

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Figuring by Maria Popova

Written by the inimitable Maria Popova, the mind behind the website Brain Pickings, Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries – beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson. Stret…

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The Australian Book Design Awards celebrate the bravest and brightest, the most original and beautiful books published in Australia each year.

Here are some of the 2019 shortlistees for the different award categories

Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover

Dinner with the Dissidents, design by Josh Durham (Design by Committee) The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, design by Hazel Lam The Way Things …

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Here are the changes to our regular trading hours for each of our seven shops over the Easter holidays and Anzac Day. You can view the shop pages here. EASTER AND ANZAC DAY OPENING HOURS AT READINGS CARLTON

Friday 19 April (Good Friday) – 10am - 9pm
Saturday 20 April – 10am - 9pm
Sunday 21 April (Easter Sunday) – 10am - 9pm
Monday 22 April (Easter Monday) – 10am - 9pm
Thursday 25 April (Anz…

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Richard Powers has won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, The Overstory.

An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are commu…

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We sat down with the Carly Nugent – author of the 2019 Readings Children’s Book Prize winner The Peacock Detectives – to talk about what makes a good mystery, what inspired her book and what she’s been reading.

Congratulations on winning the Readings Children’s Book Prize! Can you tell us a bit about why you wanted to write this story? Has the book been with you for a while?

Thank you! It’s s…

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We’re thrilled to reveal that the winner of this year’s Readings Children’s Book Prize is The Peacock Detectives by Carly Nugent!

Established in 2014, the Readings Children’s Book Prize celebrates on-the-rise Australian authors and is awarded to the book that children will love best.

Carly Nugent’s quirky mystery about family and friendship is a fitting winner. This heartfelt depiction of fa…

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The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie Identity Crisis by Ben Elton No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani & Omid Tofighian (trans.) Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest by Sophie Cunningham Metropolis by Philip Kerr Normal People by…

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Wilam: A Birrarung Story by Aunty Joy Murphy, Andrew Kelly & Lisa Kennedy Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson’s Journal by Jeff Kinney Hopping Weird (Weirdo Book 12) by Anh Do The Dog Runner by Bren MacDibble Kids Who Did: Kids Who Ruled, Rebelled, Survived and Thrived by Kirsty Murray Real Pigeons Fight Crime by Andrew McDonald & Ben Wood Fing by David Walliams & Tony Ross All th…

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There has been a wave of gorgeously-illustrated and skilfully-written picture books this month. Picture books are often viewed as solely for young audiences, but many are objects of art that can be enjoyed by all ages. Here are six new picture books that can be appreciated by young and old. Our Little Inventor by Sher Rill Ng

Enter a fantastical steampunk world in Australian author-illustr…

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