Chris Gordon
Chris Gordon is the community engagement and programming manager. She also writes on the topics of gardening and cooking for the Readings Monthly.
Review — 26 Aug 2024
Travelling to Tomorrow by Yves Rees
You might have heard Dr Yves Rees on their excellent podcast, Archive History, or even heard them talk at Readings. Delightfully, they have made the past their livelihood. Travelling…
Review — 26 Aug 2024
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
In the end, of course, it is Olive Kitteridge who tells it like it is. However, before that happens, you do get to spend an entire wonderful year with Bob…
Review — 25 Aug 2024
Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd
This is a visceral read: you will walk through the streets of London in the 1960s; you will smell the coffee, the cigarettes, the whiskey, and the mouse shit. You…
Review — 25 Aug 2024
Cherrywood by Jock Serong
Take two love stories, one good, old-fashioned Fitzroy pub, some magical realism, and mix it all up with Melbourne’s booming years of the 1910s, and you have one of the…
Review — 25 Aug 2024
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty is bewitchingly clever. And entertaining. Her latest novel will grab you from the first page and not release you until you finish the entire novel. Along the way…
Blog post — 20 Aug 2024
At Home with Chris Gordon, the best lifestyle books of the month
The August edition of Readings Monthly is available online and in our shops, but if you haven't picked up a copy yet, below you can read Chris Gordon's column from…
Review — 23 Jun 2024
Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne’s Most Notorious Woman by Barbara Minchinton with Philip Bentley
This is the story of Marvellous Melbourne and an age-old profession. It is also a tale of one woman’s pure tenacity. Many of us know about Melbourne’s legendary brothel keeper…
Review — 23 Jun 2024
Murder in Punch Lane by Jane Sullivan
Jane Sullivan, a literary columnist and supporter of Australian writing, has always promoted the work of others. What an extra joy it is to support her latest novel, Murder in…
Blog post — 29 Aug 2024
A beginner's guide to Elizabeth Strout
On Elizabeth Strout’s website is this quote:
"We want to know, I think, what it is like to be another person, because somehow this helps us position our own self…Review — 20 May 2024
Safe Space by Alyssa Huynh
In this candid collection of essays, Melbourne‑based Vietnamese-Australian author Alyssa Huynh gives a lesson in empathy. Her writing on a lifetime experience of continued racism is both poignant and directed…
