Kate McIntosh
Kate McIntosh is the shop manager at Readings Doncaster.
Reviews
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
It’s 1954 and Emmett has just returned home from a stint in a juvenile prison. The bank is foreclosing on the family’s Nebraskan farm after his father’s death, and Emmett plans to pack up his little …
The Beautiful Fall by Hugh Breakey
Thrice now, 179 days apart each time, Robbie Penfold has lost his mind. He suffers from a form of amnesia which wipes his memory clean every six months. No one knows if it will happen again, but Robb…
The Chase by Candice Fox
At a prison in Nevada, the annual friendly baseball game between the officers and the minimum-security inmates is due to take place. A bus load of family members is coming to cheer on the guards, as …
The Truth About Her by Jacqueline Maley
When I reached the end of this book and read the author bio on the back page, I was not in the least bit surprised to discover Jacqueline Maley is, just like the main character in her debut novel, an…
The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan
The Rúin, the novel which introduced us to Cormac Reilly, an Irish detective transferred to Galway and handed a cold case which leads him to unexpected places, was my stand out crime novel of 2018. T…
Desire Lines by Felicity Volk
Paddy is seven years old when his parents hand him over to the care of the nuns. It is 1952, and some might say he is lucky to get away from his abusive father and the family’s poverty-line existence…
News
Andrew Pippos wins the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2021
We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2021 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction is Andrew Pippos for his debut novel Lucky’s. The story of Greek-American migrant Vasilis ‘Lucky’ Mallios was one that stayed with the judges as we made our way through this process: more than 60 bo…
The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize shortlist 2021
Each year, a few honoured staff members from Readings are assigned the task of reading and selecting what they consider to be six of the best new novels or short story col…
11 crime novels to read in March
The Rúin, the novel which introduced us to Cormac Reilly, an Irish detective transferred to Galway and handed a cold case which leads him to unexpected places, was my standout crime novel of 2018. The Scholar, rele…
