What we're reading
What we're reading: Emily Gale, Hannah Richell & Lewis Carroll
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.
Bronte Coates is reading I Am Out With Lanterns by Emily Gale
This juicy YA novel will grip you from page one. Emily Gale has skilfully brought together the perspectives of multiple characters to create a single cohesive work that investigates the ways in which we misunderstand one another, and sometimes ourselves too. Every one…
What we're reading: Vera Brosgol, Sarai Walker & Kayla Rae Whitaker
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.
Lian Hingee is reading Dietland by Sarai Walker
I’ve had Dietland sitting on my TBR pile for, oh, about two years now, and it’s been recommended to me countless times, but it took the release of a new TV adaptation to give me the kick in the butt that I needed to finally start reading…
What we're reading: Peter S. Beagle, Sally Rooney & Rupert Thomson
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.
Ele Jenkins is reading In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle
I just finished In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle. You may recognise Beagle as the author of fantasy classic The Last Unicorn, and fifty years later (fifty!) he has returned to write about his favourite mythical creature with just as much wistful…
What we're reading: Aldous Huxley, Sarah Matthias & Peter Hamilton
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.
Robbie Egan is reading Salvation by Peter Hamilton (available September)
I am reading an advance reading copy of Salvation by Peter Hamilton. I haven’t read him for years, but when the beginning of a new series was plonked onto my desk it proved irresistible.
Using multiple future time-settings, Hamilton presents an advanced humanity that has…
What we're reading: Sara Varon, Sally Rooney & Julie C. Dao
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.
Bianca Looney is reading New Shoes by Sara Varon
Sara Varon’s earlier book, Robot Dreams, is already one of my favourite graphic novels for younger readers and I know I’m not alone. A mother of a child in prep recently told me how after reading the story, her son created his own comic about…
What we're reading: Meg Wolitzer, Weike Wang & Drew Rooke
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.
Ellen Cregan is reading One Last Spin by Drew Rooke
This week I read Drew Rooke’s One Last Spin, which interrogates the questionable ethics of the presence of poker machines in Australian bars and pubs. I have to be honest – this is a pretty depressing book. But it is also a very fascinating…
What we're reading: Melissa Broder, Patricia Lockwood & Erin Gough
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.
Bianca Looney is reading The Colour of the Sun by David Almond
A summer day. A young lad wandering free. Drifts of blazing poppies. Lying on rock in the sun. Wondering and dreaming at the aliveness of the world. The magical and the real all melting together.
This tale unfolds in a single day as…
What we're reading: Hilary Mantel, Daisy Hirst & Sharlene Teo
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.
Bronte Coates is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
This past year, I’ve been making efforts to read backlist titles and seek out older books that have been repeatedly recommended to me. My latest pick is a recommendation from my colleague Jan – Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel’s first Booker-Prize-winning novel about the life of…
What we're reading: Clare Atkins, Michelle McNamara & Bri Lee
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.
Chris Gordon is reading Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
I have been putting off reading Bri Lee’s memoir because I felt like I already knew the story. I worked in the field of women’s health before I was involved in the book trade and I already knew that the legal system was not usually favourable…
What we're reading: Andrew Sean Greer, Erin Gough & Sarah Rees Brennan
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.
Julia Gorman is reading In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
A customer recently came into the kid’s shop and told me that this book is so good that she was buying herself a second copy. Due to this recommendation, and the very appealingly and gorgeous cover, I decided to buy myself a copy.
Elliott…
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