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 — 25 Jan 2024
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
Campus novels are all the rage, aren’t they? That intoxicating mix of students going wild and the power held by academic sorts. Love affairs. Friendships. Enormous questions about life choices…
Blog post — 2 Nov 2023
News from the Readings x Ubud Writers and Readers Festival trip
Recently our own Mark Rubbo and Chris Gordon accompanied a group of Melbourne readers to the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival.
First, and most importantly Mark Rubbo and I were…
Blog post — 21 Nov 2023
The best food and gardening books of the month, with Chris Gordon
Eat Lao by Sam Sempill
Sam Sempill is a Lao-born Australian textile artist and architect with a certain magical cooking skill developed through years spent in the kitchen with her…
Review — 23 Oct 2023
The Conversion by Amanda Lohrey
‘Home is where the heart is,’ says everyone everywhere, but here in this unique novel, Amanda Lohrey asks why people are driven to make a space their own. Fans of…
Blog post — 11 Oct 2023
The best food and gardening books of the month, with Chris Gordon
The Farm Table by Julius Roberts
Do you love Matthew Evans’ recipes? Perhaps Jamie Oliver’s? Now, combine those two tremendous cooks and consider the way they both use food in…
Review — 25 Sep 2023
Lola In the Mirror by Trent Dalton
Trent Dalton is never going to write fiction for fiction’s sake. He is a journalist, after all. Therefore, there is always more to his stories than a simple quest or…
Blog post — 11 Sep 2023
The best food and gardening books of the month, with Chris Gordon
5 Ingredients Mediterranean by Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver is a bloke with his finger on the pulse. He knows we all dream of spending time in the Mediterranean and that…
Review — 1 Sep 2023
Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson’s first full collection of short stories, Normal Rules Don’t Apply are absurdist in their content – and, to be honest, a little spooky. It does seem as if…
Review — 1 Sep 2023
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith’s first historical fiction novel is for readers who are prepared to pause, reflect, and then continue. It is not an easy read, but stay with it because Smith…
Blog post — 18 Aug 2023
Novels where I have not skipped a word
This year I have found myself with quite a bit of quiet time on my hands, and I've used this time to luxuriate in the art of reading. I have…