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
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. And though Sponer has so…
Order online and we’ll ship when availablePre-order now
A deliciously deranged thriller about supernatural vengeance and postwar guilt, by one of Austria's most celebrated writers
Alexander Jessiersky, Austrian aristocrat and shipping magnate, finds the Nazis distasteful - but…
A dreamlike, chimerical masterpiece from a lost pre-war Europe - critically acclaimed and rightly revered
Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer stationed in Eastern Europe during the First World War, receives…
Alexander Lernet-Holenia (Author)
A taxi-driver in 1930s Vienna impersonates a murder victim-with unsettling consequences.
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
This astonishing short novel concerns the unfathomable, otherworldly experiences of an aristocratic young calvary officer in WWI
In stock at 2 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 2 shops
Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order
At once a chase novel, black comedy, and softly keening death song, Count Luna starts off at a gallop and accelerates into warp speed