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
From bestselling sensations to literary thrillers, try one of these page-turning crime reads.
Ismail Kadare
Shows how legends of betrayal and defeat simmered in European civilisation for six hundred years, culminating in the agony of one tiny population at the end of the twentieth century.
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, Kadare’s young narrator both reflects and distorts events as his ancient, magical home town are lost foever in the madness and brutality…
In stock at 2 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 2 shops
From behind the closed door, the man shouts, ‘Be on your way - you have no business here!’ ‘Open up, I am the messenger of Death’. As spring arrives in…
Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country’s dead. Once there he meets a German general who…
In Vienna a taxi strikes the crash barrier, flinging its passengers out as it spins through the air. The driver cannot explain why he lost control; only that the couple…
The Ottoman Army lays siege to a Christian fortress in the mountains of Albania. Above the colourful host looms the great dark wall of the citadel that has to be…
Translated by Barbara Bray from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf Vrioni At the heart of the Sultan’s vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams.
From the moment that Gjorg’s brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother’s murderer and then…
A classic medieval mystery from the winner of the inaugural Man Booker Prize
The Designated Successor was found dead in his bedroom at dawn on December 14. Did he kill himself or was he murdered?
Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a ‘new fangled’ invention) in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers.