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Art & Design for Mother's Day
How to Cut an Orange by Zoë Croggon & edited by Justine Ellis, Ash Holmes & Dan Rule
Readings Carlton art and design buyer Zoë Croggon is a person of many talents. Not only does she expertly curate our art and design list, she is a celebrated artist in her own right, working across multiple forms including dance, drawing, sculpture and collage. Her new book, How to Cut an Orange, draws on each of these disciplines along with the…
Foreword, with Joe Rubbo
January and February always feel a bit slow in the world of bookselling, customer numbers dwindle and the number of books being published slows. It’s a good time to tidy up after Christmas, take a breath and plan for the year ahead. There isn’t much time for repose, however, as things start to pick up again in March.
We kicked off the month with the launch for Nam Le’s new poetry collection, 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem…
What we're reading: Schwab and Zevin
Each week our wonderful staff share the books and music that they've been enjoying.
Lian Hingee is reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
A lot of my favourite reading experiences have come about through recommendations from my wonderful and widely-read workmates (pro-tip: work at a bookshop, you'll never run out of books you desperately want to read). When our Emporium bookseller Megan posted on Instagram about how she was jealous of people who got to read…
The best food and gardening books of the month, with Chris Gordon
Easy Wins: 12 Flavour Hits, 125 Delicious Recipes, 365 Days of Good Eating by Anna Jones
Did you know Anna Jones left her day job to write recipes and cook? She did it after reading an article about following personal passion. After reading this delicious new cookbook, I am thinking about handing in my notice and eating any dish with lemons in it for the rest of my life. Putting aside life ambitions for a minute, this cookbook is a…
Our March 2024 children's and young adult bestsellers
1. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography by Wendy Loggia & Elisa Chavarri (illus.)
2. The Scarlet Shedder (Dog Man, Book 12) by Dav Pilkey
3. I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang
4. Outlaw Girls by Emily Gale & Nova Weetman
5. Friday Barnes 12: Collision Course by R.A. Spratt
6. Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
7. Bluey: Hooray, It’s Easter! by Bluey
8. Waverider (Amulet, Book 9) by Kazu Kibuishi
Our March 2024 bestsellers
Beatrix Bakes: Another Slice by Natalie Paull
What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan
Butter by Asako Yuzuki & Polly Barton (trans.)
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi & Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
Until August by Gabriel García Márquez & Anne McLean (trans.)
The Shortest History of Economics by Andrew Leigh
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe with Lyn Yarwood
The 2024 International Booker Prize shortlist
The International Booker Prize has revealed the shortlist of six novels in contention for the 2024 prize, which celebrates the finest works of translated fiction from around the world.
The prize is awarded every year for a single book that is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. It aims to encourage more publishing and reading of quality works of imagination from all over the world, and to give greater recognition to the role of translators. The…
Record Store Day 2024
Readings Carlton is celebrating Record Store Day!
Music fans can enjoy a special treat at our Carlton shop this Record Store Day with exclusive releases, discounts, and musical acts including Emma Donovan, Charm of Finches and Nelson Matthews.
From Friday 19th April until Sunday 21st April, save 10% off full-priced vinyl* at Readings Carlton, plus buy a record to enter the draw to win an Audio-Technica AT-LP60X Turntable valued at $299.99.
Come down to our Lygon St shop…
A Q&A with Bri Lee
Many readers will be familiar with Bri Lee from her acclaimed nonfiction books, Eggshell Skull, Beauty, and Who Gets to Be Smart. Our events and programming manager Chris Gordon asks Lee about her debut novel, The Work, which is published this month and takes the reader into the art world, exploring the tensions between art and money, love and power, work and privilege.
First of all, thank you for writing this wonderful novel that talks about…
Short novels that leave an impression
Whether you're time poor, looking for something to read over your lunch break, haven't the bandwidth for a 500-page epic, or simply need a circuit breaker to knock you out of a reading slump, here are some of our favourite short novels that are guaranteed to stay with you for a long time.
Orbital by Samantha Harvey – 144 pages
An exquisitely written examination of human life, Samantha Harvey's Orbital takes place over a single day as six astronauts meditate…
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