What we're reading
What we're reading: Miller, Wood & Whitehead
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on or the music we’re loving.
Leanne Hall is reading The Republic of Birds by Jessica Miller (available March 2020)
I have just finished reading The Republic of Birds, the second middle grade novel by Berlin-based Australian author Jessica Miller. It isn’t out until March 2020, so I’m truly sorry to be taunting you early, but I have…
What we're reading: Brookner, O'Callaghan & Pullman
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on or the music we’re loving.
Ellen Cregan is reading The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, Volume 2) by Philip Pullman
I’ve been reading the second installment in Phillip Pullman’s The Book of Dust trilogy, which only came out a couple of weeks ago. I am a huge fan of Pullman’s writing, and was very excited…
What we're reading: Robinson, Haratischvili & Abbott
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on or the music we’re loving.
Chris Gordon is reading Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott
Late to the game, I have finally joined my colleagues in their love for Megan Abbott. I’m reading Give Me Your Hand. It’s a story about female friendship that I know is about to go terribly wrong. Abbott is a…
What we're reading: Besson, Lawlor & Carreyrou
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on or the music we’re loving.
Fiona Hardy is reading Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
My usual reading diet consists of kids books and crime (I know, I know) but when I need to mix things up, I really love a non-bloodthirsty non-fiction book. Which makes it ironic, probably, that the one I’ve been eyeing off when customers buy…
What we're reading: Lawlor, Ginzburg & Townsend Warner
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on or the music we’re loving.
Ele Jenkins is reading Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
I just finished Lolly Willowes, a 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It’s a remarkable book, short and whimsical and deeply subversive. At age 47, Laura Willowes escapes the narrowly confined life of a spinster and flees to the countryside on a…
What we're reading: Brodesser-Akner, Torres & Smith
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on or the music we’re loving.
Amanda Rayner is reading Glory and its Litany of Horrors by Fernanda Torres (translated by Eric M. B. Becker)
I’m currently reading Glory and its Litany of Horrors by Fernanda Torres, translated from the Portuguese by Eric M. B. Becker. Torres, whose previous book The End sold over 200, 000 copies in Brazil…
What we're reading: Wakefield, Irby & Strout
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on or the music we’re loving.
Ellen Cregan is reading We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
I’ve been reading We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby. This hilarious collection of essays makes for delightful reading – Irby is a comedian who runs the popular blog Bitches Gotta Eat, and her warts-and-all…
What we're reading: Hardy, Caletti & Dahl
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on or the music we’re loving.
Bronte Coates is reading How to Make a Movie in Twelve Days by Fiona Hardy
This is exactly the kind of book I would have loved as a nerdy and creatively-fired-up child. After a year of planning and a bittersweet financial boon, Hayley is set to film her first ever professional horror film…
What We're Reading: Meyer, Gaitskill and Vuong
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Georgia Brough is reading A Superior Spectre by Angela Meyer
Jeff is dying; slowly, painfully. He escapes from overcrowded, overheated Melbourne to the wilds of the Scottish highlands. In his possession is a tab – a device that allows him to jump back in time and live life through the eyes of a real person…
What We're Reading: Flook, Reeve and Spoon
byEach week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films and TV shows we’re watching, and the music we’re listening to.
Paul Barr is listening to Ancora by Flook
This dynamic Anglo Irish band have not had a release since Haven in 2005. It’s now 2019 and they are back with a vengeance. All the original members are here. The flute/whistle playing is as wild as ever and the powerful acoustic grooves of guitar and bodhran…
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