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Lian Hingee

Lian Hingee is the digital marketing manager at Readings.

She has been working in books for over twenty years.

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Nonfiction
17 Nov 2025

The Passive-Aggressive Gift Guide

We've got suggestions for thoughtful gifts to give to the people you're not so excited to see this Christmas …

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Food and gardening
21 Aug 2025

Cookbooks to get you through a bake sale

Featuring Some of My Best Friends are Cookies by Emelia Jackson, Handfuls of Sunshine by Tilly Pamment, Crumbs by Ben Mims, and more!

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International fiction
8 May 2025

Book & gift pairings for Mother’s Day

Featuring Rytual by Chloe Elisabeth Wilson, Pranzo by Guy Mirabella, I Am Nannertgarrook by Tasma Walton and more.

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Nonfiction
11 Apr 2025

Books for people who find Mother’s Day challenging

Mother's Day can be an emotionally fraught time for a lot of people. Whether that’s due to a loss, a challenging fertility journey, your own difficult upbringing, or any other reason, if you dread this time of year, here’s a…
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Nonfiction
16 Jan 2025

Recommended reading for your resolutions

Featuring Know Your Worth by Victoria Vivente, I'm Not Lazy, I'm on Energy Saving Mode by Dancing Snail, Day Trip Melbourne by Evi O, and more.

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Nonfiction
29 Nov 2024

Our 2024 passive aggressive gift guide

The festive season is upon us, and so, inevitably, are the frenemies, the barely-tolerated other halves and the family members you definitely don't see eye to eye with. Grit your teeth and bear it . . . or even better…
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Food and gardening
22 Nov 2024

Recommended cookbooks for every kind of home chef

Whether you're an enthusiastic home chef who loves to experiment in the kitchen, or a reluctant cook who may or may not have burned a boiled egg, our shelves are packed with brilliant cookbooks for all kinds of people. Discover…
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International fiction
10 Jul 2024

Recent literary adaptations of Greek myths

It's a good time to be a fan of literary retellings of Greek mythology. Which is to say, it's a good time to be me. Over the past couple of years, writers have been delving into the classic stories of…
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Kids
6 Feb 2024

Children’s books to share on World Read Aloud Day

Today (7 February) is World Read Aloud Day, and as a parent who is one bedtime story away from chucking my four-year-old's favourite book out the window I thought that I would share some of the recent picture book releases…
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23 Nov 2023

Passive aggressive gift guide

The festive season is upon us, and with it comes celebrations and gifts and forced socialisation with people you definitely don't see eye to eye with. Grit your teeth and bear it ... or even better, gift them one of…
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Kids
23 Oct 2023

Contemporary classics to gift a new baby

So your best friend/sibling/cousin/workmate/neighbour/casual acquaintance is having a baby. Books make the ideal keepsake gift, but before you accidentally buy them their seventh copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar or Where the Wild Things Are, consider one of our favourite…
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Nonfiction
22 Dec 2022

Five Books if you want to learn to sew your own clothes

Growing up in the 80s and 90s I never properly appreciated the home-sewn clothes my mother and grandmother used to make for me. As far as teenage me was concerned, it wasn't 'fashion' unless it came in a bag with…
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