Jason Austin

Readings Carlton bookseller Jason Austin decided to return to a genre he’d enjoyed as a young reader and exclusively read horror books in 2023. Here he shares the results of his experiment. Like a lot of kids, my love of…

American author Matthew Griffin chats with our own bookseller Jason Austin about his powerful debut novel, Hide. (You can also read Jason’s rave review of the book here.) First of all let me say congratulations! I loved Hide so…

Bookseller Jason Austin shares five books that have made an impression on him in 2014 Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates. Every year I try to read at least one novel by Richard Yates. It’s a relatively new tradition of…

Jason Austin talks with Anna George about her new novel, What Came Before begins with David’s confession that he’s killed his wife Elle. As the story progresses, we learn not only what came before that event, but what came before…

Jason Austin shares with us a book he loved for our new ‘What I Loved’ series. About ten years ago I was stuck for something to read. You might think it strange that a bookseller was bereft of reading material…

Jason Austin of Readings Carlton chats to David Vann about his latest novel. Your first two novels – My family hunted on the same ranch every year, and as we walked through each part of that landscape, my father and…

We chat to Jason Austin from Readings Carlton about chancing upon Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road, the appeal of morally ambiguous characters and not underestimating Young Adult fiction. Why do you work in books? I have always loved stories…