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Mark Rubbo

Mark Rubbo is chairman of Readings.

He is a past president of the Australian Booksellers Association and was founding chair of the Melbourne Writers Festival. In 2006 he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia.

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Australian fiction
10 Nov 2025

A beginner’s guide to Helen Garner

Readings Chairman Mark Rubbo on where to start reading the wonderful books of Helen Garner.

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Australian fiction
6 Nov 2025

Mark Rubbo and Andrew Pippos on The Transformations

Readings chairman Mark Rubbo and Andrew Pippos discuss Pippos's brilliant second novel, The Transformations.

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News
11 Sep 2025

Mark Rubbo on A Day in Carlton

Readings Chairman Mark Rubbo on the second year of A Day in Carlton.

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Australian fiction
15 Oct 2024

A Day in Carlton: Mark Rubbo’s pick

Mark Rubbo, Readings Chairman, shares his top pick from the event program of the upcoming A Day in Carlton Festival. Explore the program now, and join us for 24 hours celebrating books, culture and community! Earlier this year I was…
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Nonfiction
11 Oct 2024

Nonfiction bargains from Melbourne University Press

Melbourne University Press is arguably one of Australia’s finest publishers of nonfiction. As they will soon be moving to a new warehouse they are reducing their stock in readiness. Luckily for you, and us, this means we are able to…
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Books
1 Oct 2024

Mark’s Say

The start of a new month means that there's a new issue of Readings Monthly available online and in our shops. Below you can read the Mark Rubbo's column from the latest issue – and keep an eye on the…
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News
5 Jun 2024

The end of an era

Mark Rubbo chats with Desiree Boardman, Readings Hawthorn’s beloved manager of almost three decades, ahead of her much-deserved retirement. Desi chuckles when I catch up with her in the lead up to her last weeks as manager of Readings Hawthorn…
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Books
21 Nov 2023

Mark’s Say, November 2023

As I write this, I’m about to head off to Bali for the 20th Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. It’s a testament to its founders, Melbourne-born Janet DeNeefe and her Indonesian husband Ketut Suardana, that it has become a sought-after…
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News
7 Aug 2023

Mark’s Say, August 2023

The horror of the Holocaust has been the topic of many thousands of books; the scale of the savagery wrought by a sophisticated Western society is something that people struggle to understand. Many European Jewish people were able to find…
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News
7 Jul 2023

Mark’s Say, July 2023

Next month we’ll be partnering with Libro.fm to offer our customers access to audiobooks. Up until now, subscriptions or purchases of audiobooks has been limited to Apple or Amazon’s Audible. Libro.fm offers a similar catalogue to both of those companies…
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Books
8 Jun 2023

Mark’s Say, June 2023

We’ve moved our offices to West Melbourne and now that my bike commute is a little longer, I’ve taken to listening to podcasts, many of them produced by Readings. I was recently particularly taken by one of the New Yorker…
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Books
3 May 2023

Mark’s Say, May 2023

I’m pretty proud of the bookshops we’ve created over the years. With the help of some very talented architects, we’ve created some beautiful spaces, and our buyers and booksellers have filled them with an interesting and diverse range of books…
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