Ellen Cregan

Online bookseller Ellen Cregan shares her five favourite reads of the year – from vivid, fragmented memoir and elegant Gothic fiction, to a funny, smart queer anti-romance perfect for summer reading The Adversary by Ronnie Scott Each year I try…

Every year our staff vote for their favourite books, albums, films and TV shows of the past 12 months. Here are our top 10 pop albums of the year, voted for by Readings’ staff, and displayed in no particular order…

Exciting news: Zadie Smith is coming to Melbourne as part of the Wheeler Centre’s Broadside festival. If you want to get stuck into this legendary author’s oeuvre, but aren’t sure where to begin, read on! Interweaving 10 completely new and…

Summer is here and Melbourne is heating up. Here, our marketing and events coordinator Ellen Cregan shares seven bookish recommendations to help you cool down The Library of Ice by Nancy Campbell This book takes on the mammoth task of…

Every year our staff vote for their favourite books, albums, films and TV shows of the past 12 months. Here are our top 10 pop CDs of the year, voted for by Readings’ staff, and displayed in no particular order…

The winner of the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction in 2018 is Pulse Points by Jennifer Down. The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, now in its fifth year, is awarded to a work of fiction by an Australian…

We are proud to announce the six shortlisted titles for The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize 2018! Congratulations to the six shortlisted authors. Now in its fifth year The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize is presented for the best new…

Readings bookseller Ellen Cregan shares some of her favourite cookbooks for going vegan. For a good cause Edgar’s Mission is an animal sanctuary that cater to creatures of all sizes, from guinea pigs to regular pigs. At the end of…

Doncaster bookseller Ellen Cregan shares five books that she read this year – and still can’t get out of her head My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent This is a tough book to read. Turtle is 14 and lives in…

Every year our staff vote for their favourite books, albums, films and TV shows of the past 12 months. Here are our top 10 art and design books of the year, voted for by Readings’ staff, and displayed in no…