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2024 Pulitzer Prize winners announced
Writers Jayne Anne Phillips, Jonathan Eig, Ilyon Woo and Nathan Thrall were announced last night amongst the 2024 Pulitzer Prize winners.
Jayne Anne Phillips won the Fiction prize for her novel, Night Watch; Jonathan Eig and Ilyon Woo jointly won the biography prize for their respective works, King: The Life of Martin Luther King and Master Slave Husband Wife; and Nathan Thrall won in the Nonfiction category for A Day in the Life of Abed Salama.
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Our books of the month, May 2024
Explore our books of the month for May; each of the below titles has been read and recommended by our booksellers before being selected as our book of the month for its category.
FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH
Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey
Reviewed by Joe Murray, Readings Kids
'Where Only the Astronauts is most powerful is in the stories where Dovey almost dares you to care, reckoning with the absurd until she finds something beautiful.'What do…
Famous Readings Warehouse Sale
Mark your diaries because Readings is hosting one of our rare and fabulous warehouse sales! There will be something for everyone with books, gifts, music and more! Prices start from as low as $2. Please note, it is EFTPOS payments only.
What: Tons of books at fabulous, super-cheap prices!
When: Saturday 25 May 10am - 6pm
Where: The Readings Warehouse at 3/119-123 Adderley Street, West Melbourne (beside Festival Hall)
Public transport near by:
Train: North Melbourne for closest station.
Tram…
What we're reading: de Marcken, Pountney & Quintero
Each week our wonderful staff share the books and music that they've been enjoying.
Tracy Hwang is reading It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken
I’m reading Anne de Marcken’s It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, one of the joint winners of the second Novel Prize. Given that the inaugural Novel Prize gave us Jessica Au’s unforgettable Cold Enough for Snow, I was really looking forward to what the second round would give…
Alexis Wright wins the 2024 Stella Prize
Alexis Wright has been named the winner of the 2024 Stella Prize for her novel, Praiseworthy.
Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned.
In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors, a crazed visionary seeks out donkeys as the solution to the global climate crisis and…
A Q&A with Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín is a bestselling Irish writer, known for his works of fiction. He is the winner of a swathe of literary awards and has long been a favourite with Readings customers. He often uses his home, County Wexford, as the setting for his novels, but his work covers some wide terrain, from an intimate portrait of the novelist Henry James, The Master, to a retelling of the legend of Oresteia, House of Names. Joe Rubbo, Readings managing…
Bestselling books in new, compact formats
These bestselling books are now available in smaller, more affordable formats!
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.
Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and Eilish can only watch helplessly as the…
Books to gift this Mother's Day that our booksellers absolutely loved
This Mother's Day we're recommending some of our absolute bookseller favourite titles from recent times. Backed by our well-read bibliophiles, these novels are wonderful choices to gift the special reader in your life.
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
'A story of intimacies and the minutiae of the day-to-day of ordinary life set against The Troubles. I fell in love with all the characters, as flawed as they were, and felt that I lived the months with them in that small suburb…
Debut fiction to read this month
What I Would Do to You by Georgia Harper
In a near-future Australia, the death penalty is back. But if the victim's family wants the perpetrator to die, they have to do it themselves. Twenty-four hours alone in a room with the condemned. No cameras. No microphones. Just whatever punishment they decide befits the crime.
Ten-year-old Lucy was murdered in bushland adjoining her family farm. Through counselling sessions with their court-appointed psychologist we learn the stories of her family members…
Top picks for book clubs this month
Australian fiction | Dirt Poor Islanders by Winnie Dunn
Meadow Reed used to get confused when explaining that she had grandparents from Australia, Tonga and Great Britain. She'd say she was full-White and full-Tongan, thinking that so many halves made separate wholes. Despite the Anglo-Saxon genetics that gave Meadow a narrow nose and light-brown skin, everybody who raised her was Tongan. Everybody who loved her was Tongan. This was what made her Tongan.
Growing up in the heat-hummed streets of…
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