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
Richard Flanagan
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction…
In stock at 8 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 8 shops
'A masterpiece . . . The Narrow Road is an extraordinary piece of writing and a high point in an already distinguished career.' - Michael Williams, The Guardian
A novel…
In stock at 6 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 6 shops
'One of the most auspicious debuts in Australian writing.' Times Literary Supplement
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan's debut novel, is…
Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie?
Richard Flanagan's Wanting reminds us that he is one of the most exciting novelists working anywhere, full stop - The Age
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. The…
In stock at 4 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 4 shops
'From its wonderfully atmospheric opening to its touching conclusion, this is a heartbreaking story, beautifully told' Literary Review
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. One of the most-loved…
'Richard Flanagan is one of the greatest writers at work in the world today - I admire him and his writing immensely. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a…
In stock at 5 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 5 shops
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land…
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays is the first book to be published about the life and work of this major world author. Written by twelve leading critics from Australia, Europe and…
Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order
'Flanagan's best work to date.' - Readings Magazine
What is the truth? In this blistering story of a ghost writer haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner…
'A work of pure brilliance', Seattle Times
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014, his Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning novel.
Once upon a time that was called 1828, before…
An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with the author's life and family, and the role of…
Order online and we’ll ship when availablePre-order now
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country?
After…
The Australian Disease is Richard Flanagan’s perceptive, hilarious, searing expose of the conformity that afflicts our public life. From Weary Dunlop to Vassily Grossman, from David Hicks to Craig Thomson…
Published in hardcover to outstanding acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, and winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize, Gould’s Book of Fish is a marvelously imagined epic of…
In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, her mother…
Australia is not a fixed entity, a collection of outdated bigotries and reactionary credos, but rather an invitation to dream, and this country - our country - belongs to its…
Available to order, ships in 10-14 daysAvailable to order
It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying…
Young and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl.
Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il’s haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones…
The Australian Booksellers’ Association Book of the Year begins in 1954, in Tasmania where Bojan Buloh brings his family to start a new life away from Slovenia’s privations of war…
Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order
Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight. When Anna’s finger vanishes and a few months later her knee…
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 After a one-night stand with an attractive stranger, pole-dancer Gina Davies finds herself prime suspect in an attempted terrorist attack on…
One of the most auspicious debuts in Australian writing.' Times Literary Supplement From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan's debut novel, is…
An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother…
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country After…
From its wonderfully atmospheric opening to its touching conclusion, this is a heartbreaking story, beautifully told' Literary Review From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. One of the most-loved…
t Kif Kehlmann, a young penniless writer, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial…
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a…
Un extraordinario tapiz de la Australia del siglo XIX. El libro de los peces de William Gould es el retrato de un mundo de convictos, profugos, flageladores, colonizadores, ladrones y…
Richard Flanagan,Richard Flanagan
Australia is not a fixed entity, a collection of outdated bigotries and reactionary credos, but rather an invitation to dream, and this country-our country-belongs to its dreamers…if we are finally…
Available to order, ships in 3-5 daysAvailable to order
As a river guide is trapped under a rapid and begins to drown, the entirety of his life in Tasmania–flora and fauna–sings him home. Aljaz arrives at a world where…
A study highlighting the active political nature of the unemployed rather than one of passive victims of the system. The efforts of the unemployed to unite are traced from 1884…
Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of…
From the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author comes a dazzling novel of family, love and love’s disappointments
Anna’s aged mother is dying. Condemned by her children’s pity to living, subjected to…
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Trapped within a waterfall on the wild Franklin River, Tasmanian river guide, Aljaz Cosini, lies drowning. As the tourists he has…
From one of the most inventive and important international literary voices comes this powerful and moving tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that mark humanity’s nature.
An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.
In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier…
Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo Evans and his fellow prisoners to that of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel…
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen’s Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane.
Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William…
BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR
An introduction into the compelling, comic and chilling stories of Richard Flanagan
Discover the haunting and moving writing of Man Booker Prize winning author Richard Flanagan…
Sindhu Anisha
The book attempts to analyse and explore the implications of the cultural interaction, that occurs when the individuals or the groups of individuals from different cultures come in contact with…
Set in Tasmania, this is the story of a Slovenian immigrant family’s experience of exile after World War II and the secret that divides Bojan, and his motherless daughter, Sonia.
