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Elke Power is the editor of Readings Monthly.

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Sirens
by Martin McKenzie-Murray

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Elke Power, Apr 2026

Sirens is an articulate and humane portrait of three first responders: Peter, a paramedic; Brett, a police officer; and Tara, a firefighter. It’s a book about how people survive such work, and why they are driven to do it in…

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Recent blog posts by Elke Power

Australian fiction
10 Apr 2025

Q&A with award-winning writer Hannah Kent

Hear from prize-winner Hannah Kent about her upcoming memoir, Always Home, Always Homesick.

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Crime
24 Feb 2025

Q&A with Melbourne author Fiona Hardy

Fiona Hardy answers questions about her debut crime novel, Unbury the Dead.

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Nonfiction
19 Dec 2024

Nonfiction for people who love a deep dive into an issue

Featuring The Chairman's Lounge by Joe Aston, Always Was, Always Will Be by Thomas Mayo, The Men Who Killed the News, Eric Beecher and more.

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Books
3 Apr 2020

The best new releases in April

Our Readings Monthly Editor Elke Power shares the best new books to look out for this month, including a gorgeous cookbook, some fantastic debut fiction, and highly anticipated new titles from blockbuster authors Anne Tyler, Maggie O’Farrell and N.K. Jemisin…
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News
1 Mar 2018

This month’s most exciting new releases

Every now and then a book comes along that causes reading queues among Readings staff, caffeine over-consumption (if there is such a thing) to compensate for compulsive late-night reading, and a lot of excited discussion as reading copies are passed…
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Books
30 Mar 2017

Exciting new releases in April

In international fiction, there was almost a bookseller stampede for John Darnielle’s much-anticipated second novel, Universal Harvester. Our marketing and events coordinator Stella Charls describes it as ‘a wonderfully strange and moving reading experience’. American journalist Omar El Akkad’s…
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Books
28 Feb 2017

Exciting new releases in March

We were impressed and profoundly moved by our book of the month, They Cannot Take the Sky, a project from Behind the Wire. Our reviewer urges all Australians to read it; you can begin by reading the review here…
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Books
2 Feb 2017

The most anticipated books of 2017

Another year, another bounty of books! To cover every book the Readings team is excited about would be impossible, but here is a sample of the books we are looking forward to in 2017. International fiction Several much-loved authors return…
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