Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Jackie French
An updated version of Jackie French’s journal of a year in the life of the Araluen Valley in the beautiful Southern Tablelands of NSW. It’s a combination of many stories…
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
The third title in the Matilda saga, which began with A WALTZ FOR MATILDA and followed with THE GIRL FROM SNOWY RIVER. Blue Laurence has escaped the prison of her…
Available to order, ships in 10-14 daysAvailable to order
The world’s most famous love story told by one of Australia’s most respected authors. This is the well - known story of Juliet Capulet and her love for Romeo.
Following on from I Am Juliet, this is the second title in a proposed new series for young people that focuses on the reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s classic and enduring plays…
A searing story of passion, betrayal, battles and love, this is Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ stripped of superstition, and its power and beauty refined into fewer words where good balances the evil…
Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order
‘The story is equal parts Downton Abbey and wartime action, with enough romance and intrigue to make it 100% not-put-down-able.’
– Australian Women’s Weekly on Miss Lily’s Lovely Ladies
Australian…
From bestselling and award-winning author Jackie French comes a new series for younger readers called The Secret Histories.
This first book in the series tells the story of a young…
The second book in a series that explores little-known history about Australia’s fascinating past.
Barney Bean is keen to make his fortune and he hears a secret; a sailor’s secret…
Australian Children’s Laureate, book lover and dyslexia sufferer Jackie French gives a wonderful insight into how you can help your child discover a world of books. Does your child love…
It’s 1854, and the Ballarat goldfields are a place of dreams and rebellion as Sam, a homeless teenager, is called back to the past to join the Puddlehams, who run…
The story of the iconic Burke and Wills expedition, seen through the eyes of a camel called Bell Sing. Transported from his beloved Afghan plains and mountains to Australia, Bell…
The deeds and disputed stories of Jackie French’s own ancestors inspire another novel - a novel of proud and gutsy horses, trailblazing farmers and their resilient wives, and desperate men…
The year is 1788, and in the newly created colony at Sydney Cove is struggling for survival. Seen through the eyes of the colony’s only surgeon and Nanberry, the Aboriginal…
The year is 1919. Thirty years have passed since the man from Snowy River made his famous ride. But World War I still casts its shadow across a valley in…
Refuge centres around a 14-year-old Afghan boy who spent much of his life in Pakistani refugee camps before making the voyage from Indonesia to Australia. As the boat crashes against…
From bestselling author Jackie French comes a book about the secrets we carry, those that we unearth - and those that are too dangerous to tell.
The once impoverished medical…
THE DIARY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, GENT is part comedy, part love story, the threads of Shakespeare’s life drawn from his plays. Could the world’s greatest writer truly put down his…
It’s 1972 in Gibber’s Creek, and across the nation, the catchcry is, ‘It’s time’. In 1972, and the catchcry is ‘It’s time’. As political ideals drift from disaster to the…
The final title in the multi award-winning Hitler series, this compelling story follows on from Heidi’s story in Hitler’s Daughter and Georg’s in Pennies for Hitler, and shows us that…
‘GRIPPING, EMOTIONAL AND MOVING’ – New Idea
There have been fires before, but not like this.
In 1978, as the hot wind howls and the grass dries, all who live…
A fresh reinterpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Australian Children’s Laureate Jackie French.
Twelve-year-old Ben Huntsmore is the son of a shipowner, an only child who loves the farming life on his mother’s family estate, Badger’s Hill.
Based on eyewitness accounts, this fifth title in The Secret Histories series uncovers the secrets that the colonial government hid for over 200 years.
‘A must for your summer reading list’
– Better Reading
A body has been found in the burned-out wreckage of the church at Gibber’s Creek – with older skeletons lying…
From Australia’s best-loved storyteller comes the final book in the bestselling Matilda Saga
This is a love song to our nation, told in a single sweeping story
Jed Kelly has…
A powerful novel from master storyteller Jackie French
The soldiers she saved called her the Angel of Waterloo. The husband she loved and lost called her Hen. The patients she…
Three women from very different backgrounds, bound by friendship, separated by destinyIt was impossible, but in full view of the church, the Governor and wedding guests …
The bride…
As a puppy, Snarf is fortuitously rescued by a young girl called Hekja when he is badly injured. Their simple but happy lives are changed unrecognisably when their village is…
All Martin has to do is walk the boundaries and the farm will be his. It is a bright sunny day when Martin sets out, but suddenly he finds himself…
Prince Narmer, first in line of succession, meets an oracle who changes his life. Ousted from the line by a disfiguring struggle with a crocodile, Narmer travels, learning much about…
Possum and Mopoke, with the old Collector Desert Wind as their guide, leave the Valley again to brave the world outside, where it’s harsh, dry and so hot you can’t…
Possum, Mopoke and Desert Wind have found a wild boy - one with a pet lion - and brought him back to the Valley. But who is he? How can…
Possum and Mopoke, with Desert Wind as their guide, have left the Valley and braved the world outside, where its harsh, dry and so hot you can’t go out during…
Sea levels have risen, the winds are wild, and the sun is so hot that you can’t go out during the day. So Possum and Mopoke live like wombats, sleeping…
With Desert Wind as their guide, Possum and Mopoke have once again left the Valley to brave the world outside, where it’s harsh, dry and so hot you can’t go…
From bestselling author Jackie French comes a book about the secrets we carry, those that we unearth - and those that are too dangerous to tell. The once impoverished medical…
From one of our most respected and award - winning authors, Jackie French, comes a fascinating and fresh interpretation of Australian history, focusing on how the land itself, rather than…
Jackie French Koller
Chubby and I stood staring at the stove door, watching the flare of the burning letter. Someday had suddenly become starkly, terribly real. This town we loved, everything we knew…
Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order
A specially priced volume featuring the first three books in the series: The Dragonling, A Dragon in the Family , and Dragon Quest . Readers follow the adventures of Darek…
Originally published as a serial novel in the Boston Globe, and then syndicated in newspapers across the US, The Liberty Pole has now been expanded into a novel. When the…
Synopsis coming soon…….
When his father moves away to find work and his mother becomes ill, Danny struggles to help his family during the Great Depression.
Tom Appleby, eight year old chimney sweep is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay. This book tells of a colony that, despite its natural abundance, cannot…
The soldiers she saved called her the Angel of Waterloo. The husband she loved and lost called her Hen. The patients she treated in secret called her Auntie Love.
She…