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Genre new releases you don't want to miss
Whether you’re a lover of magical worlds, intriguing mysteries, rollercoaster romances, or — like me — all of the above, there’s a new book waiting to be your next favourite! So if you’re struggling to choose your next read, here’s a round of up of my favourite new releases.
Fantasy
The North Wind by Alexandria Warwick
Personally, I always have a soft spot for retellings of Beauty and the Beast and the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone, and this…
V. V. Ganeshananthan wins the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
V. V. Ganeshananthan was announced today as the second ever winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, for her novel Brotherless Night.
Brotherless Night is a searing, gripping novel about a young Tamil woman living through the Sri Lankan civil war.
Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes her on a different path as she watches those around her, including her four…
Dear Reader with Alison Huber
Ceridwen Dovey needs no introduction to the Readings faithful, but for completeness, let me remind you that she was the inaugural recipient of The Readings Prize for New Australian Writing in 2014 with Only the Animals, an inventive work of linked short stories that has since found many, many readers. Dovey has published several works since that breakthrough book, including the wonderful novel In the Garden of the Fugitives (2018), but she returns to the short form this year…
Picture books with LGBTQIA+ families
Books have always been an important way that young kids start to understand the world around them. Diverse representation in children’s books is particularly important, so that kids can see themselves or begin to understand others in their communities.
So that all families can find books that resonate for them, we’ve curated a range of picture books that represent and celebrate rainbow families. 🌈
Mama and Mummy and Me in the Middle Nina LaCour
A little girl stays home with…
Our April 2024 children's and young adult bestsellers
1. The Scarlet Shedder (Dog Man, Book 12) by Dav Pilkey
2. Taylor Swift (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
3. Gus and the Missing Boy by Troy Hunter
4. A Way Home by Emily Brewin
5. The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson
6. Wrong Answers Only by Tobias Madden
7. I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang
8. Tweet by Morris Gleitzman
9. Wurrtoo by Tylissa Elisara & Dylan Finney (illus.)
10.…
Our April 2024 bestsellers
The Work by Bri Lee
Butter by Asako Yuzuki & Polly Barton (trans.)
Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe & Lyn Harwood
Wholesome by Sarah by Sarah Pound
Sanctuary by Garry Disher
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi & Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
Death of a Foreign Gentleman by Steven Carroll
Pheasants Nest by Louise Milligan
What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan
What we're reading: Hadley, Yan & Karber
Each week our wonderful staff share the books and music that they've been enjoying.
Joanna Di Mattia is enjoying various books by Tessa Hadley
I’ve decided to binge-read Tessa Hadley. It wasn’t a conscious decision, it’s just that I read one of her novels – The Master Bedroom – and loved it so much I had to keep going and before I knew it, I had inhaled both Late in the Day and her debut Accidents in the Home…
The 2024 ABIA winners
The winners of the annual Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced last night! Our congratulations to the winning authors, illustrators and publishers.
The 2024 ABIA Book Award winners are:
ABIA Book of the Year, General Nonfiction Book of the Year & Social Impact Book of the Year
The Voice to Parliament Handbook by Thomas Mayo & Kerry O'Brien
Indigenous leader Thomas Mayo and acclaimed journalist Kerry O’Brien have written this The Voice to Parliament Handbook easy-to-follow guide for the…
Love Oz YA
We are barely five months into 2024 and we have been gifted with so many incredible #LoveOzYA titles! Here is a list of just some of the titles from seasoned YA authors to debuts.
Deep Is the Fen by Lili Wilkinson
Merriwether Morgan doesn't need a happily-ever-after. Her life in the idyllic town of Candlecott is fine just as it is: simple, happy, and with absolutely no magic. Magic only ever leads to trouble. But Merry's best friend, Teddy, is…
The 2024 Age Book of the Year winners
The 2024 Age Book of the Year winners have been announced! The awards celebrate outstanding Australian literature and include prizes for both fiction and nonfiction.
Tony Birch has won the Fiction prize for his novel, Women & Children, while Ross McMullin has won the Nonfiction prize for Life So Full of Promise.
The judges for this year’s awards included Readings own Mark Rubbo and writer and former publisher Louise Swinn (fiction); as well as writer Simon Caterson and…
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