Emily Harms
Emily Harms is the former Head of Marketing and Communications at Readings.
Reviews
The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop
Stephanie Bishop’s The Other Side of the World is a brilliant work of art. Bishop’s intensely visceral writing has a haunting beauty reminiscent of the writings of Emily Brontë and Virginia Woolf. Se…
Vestiges and Claws by José González
Indie folk singer–songwriter and guitarist José González’s dulcet tones first drifted over me in the back of Readings Carlton in 2007 as he was performing a few beautiful songs from his then recently…
Advanced Style
Ari Seth Cohen started his blog, Advanced Style, when he moved to New York four years ago. Inspired by his own grandmother’s unique personal style and the impossible-to-ignore ‘gorgeous and stylish w…
Hello, Beautiful! by Hannie Rayson
Hannie Rayson is one of Australia’s most renowned and revered playwrights for stage and TV. Inheritance, Hotel Sorrento and Life after George all capture the quintessential contemporary Australian vo…
Useful by Debra Oswald
Fans of Offspring, Australia’s popular TV series, will love this book! It’s author is Offspring co-creator and head writer, Debra Oswald, who has also written three ‘Aussie Bite’ books for young read…
The Girl Who Lived by Susan Jane Berg
Sunday 27 October, 1985. Susan was 15 years old and set out on a fishing trip in a boat with her mum, dad and older brother, Bill, on Westernport Bay in Victoria’s South East. As it grew dark, the bo…
Merciless Gods by Christos Tsiolkas
There is no doubt Christos Tsiolkas is a master of the written word. He tickles and seduces us with the innocence and excitement of a new lover leading you to places we wouldn’t often dare to go, bef…
Friendship by Emily Gould
Bev Tunney and Amy Schwerin have been best friends for years, ever since they worked together in a publishing house in New York City: ‘…we’re a couple, in a way. I mean we’re life partners. All thes…
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
And the Mountains Echoed is Khaled Hosseini’s much-anticipated third novel, following bestsellers The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, which combined sold more than 38 million copies worldwi…
Madness: a Memoir by Kate Richards
I went to secondary school with Kate Richards, or Katie as I knew her then, where she was an intelligent, friendly yet slightly reserved high achiever. I first heard that she was writing a book – a m…
May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
Every now and then you stumble across a writer that rocks your world. A.M. Homes has certainly rocked mine.
Described by The Guardian as having ‘the narrative intensity of Jonathan Franzen’s The Cor…
The Heart Broke In by James Meek
The Heart Broke In has been described as a neo-nineteenth-century novel. Featuring a large cast of characters and perspectives in the vein of the great Russian writers, it centres on the ripple effec…
NW by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith – renowned author of the bestselling White Teeth, as well as the Orange Prize-winning On Beauty – has chosen to base her new novel mostly in Kilburn, North West London (or NW), and its su…
Gold by Chris Cleave
I first came across Chris Cleave’s brave debut novel Incendiary at a bookselling conference in 2005. This novel-length letter from an enraged mother to Osama bin Laden was written following an al-Qae…
The Meaning of Grace by Deborah Forster
Grace is wife to down-trodden Ian Fisher, who suffers from depression. She is mother to their daughters Edith (Edie) and Juliet who were born in quick succession but, having decided they weren’t goin…
News
A visit to Tiwi Islands with the Indigenous Literacy Foundation
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has been doing incredible work since it was founded in 2004 by Riverbend Bookshop owner Suzy Wilson, with the aim of improving literacy levels in remote indigeno…
Favourite Bedtime Stories
In a brand new series, book-lovers share some of their old and new favourites for reading aloud to children at bedtime. This month, Readings' Marketing Manager Emily Harms with Ava, 4, and George, 18 months.
Ava and I love to read lots of different stories together (and George who is 18 months listens and looks in!) and at nearly 4, Ava loves to sound out new words.
An old favourite from …