Joe Rubbo
Joe Rubbo is the managing director of Readings
Review — 26 Apr 2021
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
Whereabouts is Jhumpa Lahiri’s first novel written in Italian – a remarkable feat considering she learnt the language later in life. It’s incredible then to discover that after the Italian…
Review — 1 Mar 2021
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
In Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro returns to dystopian terrain, much like his earlier, and most well-known novel, Never Let Me Go. As in Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro…
Review — 21 Oct 2019
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
I’ll start out by saying that The Topeka School is one of my favourite novels of the year. I was already a fan, having loved his previous two novels, Leaving…
Blog post — 28 Oct 2020
Elizabeth Tan wins the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2020
It is a great pleasure to announce Elizabeth Tan’s Smart Ovens for Lonely People as the 2020 winner of The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. This is a truly…
Blog post — 23 Aug 2020
The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction shortlist 2020
Congratulations to the six emerging Australian authors who feature on this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction shortlist: Lauren Aimee Curtis, Joey Bui, Yumna Kassab, Laura Jean McKay, Elizabeth…
Review — 25 Jun 2019
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead’s first novel since his Pulitzer prize-winning The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys is historical fiction. Whitehead based the setting on the Dozier School for Boys and drew…
Review — 23 Sep 2019
Act of Grace by Anna Krien
Anna Krien will be known to readers as the author of two works of narrative nonfiction, Into the Woods and Night Games – both important explorations into Australian life and…
Blog post — 28 Mar 2018
Meet the bookseller with Joe Rubbo
Joe Rubbo has worked on and off at Readings over the past 13 years, and is the son of our managing director, Mark Rubbo. The former manager at Readings Doncaster…
Review — 25 Feb 2018
Don't Skip Out On Me by Willy Vlautin
Willy Vlautin is one of those dependable writers who has staked out his territory and is sticking to it. He writes about characters on the American fringe. People who are…
Review — 25 Jun 2014
Stoner: A Novel by John Williams
Stoner’s recent appearance on bestseller lists the world over has to be one of the stranger stories in publishing. First published in 1965, the work was a modest critical and…