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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.

Crime
24 Feb 2025

Q&A with Melbourne author Fiona Hardy

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

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Q&As and interviews
1 Mar 2016

Elke Power interviews Jennifer Down

Readings Monthly editor Elke Power talks with Jennifer Down about her debut novel, Our Magic Hour. Those of us at Readings who have been fortunate enough to read Jennifer Down’s debut novel, Our Magic Hour, have struggled with…

News
25 Jun 2015

A note from our Readings Monthly editor

Download a PDF of the latest issue We will miss Martin Shaw when we wave him and his family on their way to their new adventure in Germany, but as oceans are no barrier to flurries of emails about new…

Q&As and interviews
25 Jun 2015

Elke Power interviews Antonia Hayes

Antonia Hayes talks with Elke Power about relative truth and her debut novel, Relativity. EP: Your debut novel, Relativity, has been likened to A Beautiful Mind and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. However…

Books
26 Mar 2015

A note from our Readings Monthly editor

It is always exciting when reviews begin to arrive for a new issue of the Readings Monthly. Volunteers to review Lisa Gorton’s first novel, The Life of Houses, for the April issue were numerous and swift. Readings Managing…

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