Angela Crocombe

Angela Crocombe is the Readings Prize and Readings Foundation coordinator and a senior buyer for Readings Kids. She is also the author of two books on sustainable living, A Lighter Footprint: A Practical Guide to Minimising your Impact on the Planet and Ethical Eating: How to Make Food Choices That Won’t Cost the Earth.

Review — 26 Feb 2024

The Grimmelings by Rachael King

This debut novel places the Scottish mythological creature of the Kelpie within a contemporary, realistic setting in New Zealand. When 13-year-old Ella curses a boy who is bullying her on…

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Review — 26 Feb 2024

The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

Australian author Krystal Sutherland has once again written an evocative story of powerful women and dark magic in this thrilling young adult story.

Three very different women have their own…

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Blog post — 22 Feb 2024

Announcing The Readings Foundation’s 2024 grant recipients

We are delighted to announce the 10 not-for-profit organisations and programs that will be receiving $131,439 in funding from The Readings Foundation this year. The Foundation is passionate about supporting…

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Review — 23 Oct 2023

Tyger by S.F. Said & Dave McKean (illus.)

Adam and his family live in London centuries from now in an empire where slavery and tyranny abound. They are Londoners of Middle Eastern origin, and in this violent, segregated…

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Review — 23 Oct 2023

The Future by Naomi Alderman

The author of the brilliant dystopian novel The Power, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2017, has given us another fable about the near future, this time…

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Review — 25 Sep 2023

If I Was a Horse by Sophie Blackall

From a very early age I was obsessed with horses. I fantasised about them during the day and dreamt of them at night. They were the object of all my…

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Review — 25 Sep 2023

Raised by Moths by Charlie Archbold & Michelle Conn (illus.)

Last year’s winner of The Readings Children’s Prize has written a stunning picture book set in a fairground. When a little girl called Willow jumps on the Ferris wheel with…

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Review — 25 Sep 2023

Borderland by Graham Akhurst

The debut thriller by First Nations author Graham Akhurst is an engaging coming-of-age tale about a young Indigenous Australian man discovering who he is and what he stands for. When…

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Review — 25 Sep 2023

When Ghosts Call Us Home by Katya de Becerra

The third novel by Melbourne-based author Katya de Becerra is a spine-tingling haunted house story. Sophia Galich and her family once lived in a mansion called Cashore House, which was…

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Review — 1 Sep 2023

To the Ice by Thomas Tidholm, Anna-Clara Tidholm (illus.) & Julia Marshall (trans.)

This gorgeous little hardback is a unique adventure story in a snow – and ice-encrusted world, one so different from our own. Translated from Swedish, the story is about three…

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