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Don’t miss two exciting online events with US YA authors
Join us at 11am on Sunday 24 January to hear YA superstar Angie Thomas discuss her writing career and brand-new novel with fellow author Leanne Hall.
Six terrific novels that reinvent the Western
Ada feels lucky – she loves her broad-shouldered husband and her job as an apprentice midwife. But after a year of marriage with no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are hanged as witches, Ada has to fl…
Eight books to start conversations with kids this month
Australia is a big country with all sorts of weather – and sometimes extreme weather that causes bushf…
Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
It seems everyone is…
Our children’s & YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
What we’re reading: Solnit, French & Stuart
I took last week off and greedily devoured a number of books. The one I enjoyed most was last year’s Booker Prize winner, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart. Set in Glasgow in Thatchers era, th…
Should I keep this book or pass it on?
Funny Australian kids books to brighten your summer
Kip is a quiet and shy kid who struggles to fit in at school. She’s easy to miss and that’s the way she likes it. But when ten characters from her favourite comics, picture books, TV shows and video games – and her nightmare…
The 100 bestselling books at Readings in 2020
Of the 100 books listed below…
43 are fiction 19 are non-fiction 11 are children’s books (6 picture books, 4 middle grade books and 1 non-fiction) 10 are cookbooks 8 are biographies or memoirs 5 are collected works (2 anthology, 3 single-authored collection) 4 are crime readsOf the 102 authors (as well as editors, illustrators, transl…