A Conspiracy of Bones by Kathy Reichs

Okay, full disclosure: there are some Very Famous Authors I’ve never read, and Kathy Reichs is one of them. I haven’t even watched a full episode of Bones, the TV show based on her Temperance Brennan series. Turns out, there’s a reason she’s got a string of bestsellers and a television show: she’s a great writer and her books are snappy as hell. Who knew? …

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We’ve shaken up our regular What We’re Reading column to include recommendations from the borders beyond our shop walls. This week, we’ve invited some authors and publishers to share what they’re reading. Katya de Becerra is reading…

I’m currently reading The Sharp Edge of a Snowflake by Sif Sigmarsdottir. I’ve been following her on social media for years, and I’m so glad I finally picked up …

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Chris Gordon is our events and programming manager extraordinaire, as well as our monthly food and gardening columnist. Here is the latest instalment of her cooking diary during self-isolation.

I want to begin this record by describing my recent odyssey to purchase ingredients to bake my very own hot cross buns.

First, I travelled by foot and with great cheer to my local independent supermark…

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This month we have a gorgeous crafty Easter book, a picture book to bring a smile to your face and heartfelt middle grade fiction. Find our April picks for YA books here. FIVE KIDS BOOKS TO READ THIS MONTH Beautiful Eggs by Alice Lindstrom

Learn all about egg decorating traditions from around in the world in this big and gorgeous board book. Kids can travel to Latvia, Czech Republic, Gr…

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This month we have oodles of exciting new Australian YA fiction and a unique Shakespearean read from a well-known British poet. Find our April picks for kids books here. FIVE YA BOOKS TO READ THIS MONTH Deep Water by Sarah Epstein

Three months ago, 13-year-old Henry disappeared from The Shallows, a small rural Australian town, during a violent storm, leaving behind his muddy bike at the…

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This is an edited extract from Ali Cobby Eckermann’s essay of the same title in Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-Century Grandmothers edited by Helen Elliott.

In the night someone strung a line of crow carcasses across the fence outside her house. She discovers them as she leaves the house for work. Her breath catches in her chest and she cannot breathe. Jesus! she mutters, half in anger and half …

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Our food and gardening columnist recommends three food and gardening books to enjoy this month. An Australian Garden by Philip Cox

We should all understand the importance of maintaining indigenous Australian landscapes and gardens. Renowned architect Philip Cox always considered this vital and so some forty years ago purchased eighty hectares on the south coast of NSW as a private retreat a…

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Bluey: Easter Fun! Bluey: Time to Play! Eddie Woo’s Magical Maths by Eddie Woo Bluey: Bob Bilby Timmy the Ticked-Off Pony and the Poo of Excitement by Magda Szubanski & Dean Rankine Taking Down Evelyn Tait by Poppy Nwosu Sherlock Bones and the Natural History Mystery by Renee Treml The Girl, the Cat & the Navigator by Matilda Woods The Little Wave by Pip Harry How to Grow a Family Tree by Eliz…

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Falastin by Sami Tamimi & Tara Wigley Phosphorescence by Julia Baird The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan Weather by Jenny Offill The Loudness of Unsaid Things by Hilde Hinton

Our bes…

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Deborah Crabtree is a bookseller at our Carlton shop, as well as the co-host of our crime books focussed podcast, Good Cop Bad Cop. Here, she shares what she’s reading during self-isolation.

As life in isolation is set to become the new normal for a while – I’ve been doing it for several weeks now - one thing it offers is a lot of down time, some writing and a whole lot of reading. As I can’t …

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