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Jo Case is a former Readings Doncaster bookseller.

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Girls at the Piano
by Virginia Lloyd

Reviewed by
Jo Case, Mar 2018

Entering the world of some memoirs feels like an intimate conversation with a stranger who will, over the course of your time together, become your new best friend. Reading Virginia Lloyd’s exquisite memoir Girls at the Piano, tracing her…

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Recent blog posts by Jo Case

News
6 Feb 2018

Gifts to cement your status as the cool aunt/uncle

Last week, a Gen-X friend of mine asked me for advice on books to gift his voraciously well-read, book-loving niece for her fourteenth birthday. She’d given him an impressively eclectic list of authors she liked, ranging from Jennifer Niven to…
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Film & TV
16 Nov 2017

The best DVDs of 2017

Every year our staff vote for their favourite books, albums, films and TV shows of the past 12 months. Here are our top 10 DVDs of the year, voted for by Readings’ staff, and displayed in no particular order. (You…
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Books
30 Oct 2017

A reading list for fans of Mindhunter

Usually, it’s the books I read that lead me to other books. I finish one and follow the references and ideas to the next. But while I was watching David Fincher’s new Netflix series, Mindhunter, about the birth of…
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Books
27 Jul 2017

Exciting new releases in August

I first discovered Jock Serong last year, when Readings’ Stella Charls, Alice Pung and I were reading through an enormous book pile, judging the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction. None of us expected to be utterly seduced by a…
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Books
18 May 2017

My five favourite books about writers

1. Jo March It’s no coincidence that my name is Jo. Okay, I’m not named after her, but I’ve always identified with Little Women’s tomboyish writer Jo March. The second-oldest of four sisters during the American Civil War, Jo is…
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Books
4 May 2017

Exciting new releases in May

There’s something both delicious and dangerous about working in a bookshop. Every other day, I discover a new – or old – book that I suddenly can’t live without. It’s tempting enough working on the shop floor at Readings Doncaster…
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Q&As and interviews
2 Apr 2017

Jo Case interviews Jessica Friedmann

Jo Case interviews Jessica Friedmann about her debut collection of essays, Things That Helped. The opening chapter in Jessica Friedmann’s memoir-in-essays, Things That Helped, closes with her lying on her bathroom floor in the middle of the night…
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First Nations
6 Oct 2011

Q&A with Tony Birch, author of Blood

Jo Case talks to Melbourne author Tony Birch about his latest novel, Blood. You’re best known as a short-story writer, for your collections Shadowboxing and Father’s Day. Do you think your experience in that form affected how you…
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