What we're reading
What we're reading: Iglesias & Parton
Each week our amazing staff bring you a sample of the books or music they're immersed in.
Jason Austin is reading The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
Winner of both the Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Awards this year, The Devil Takes You Home is a beautifully paced supernatural crime-noir-horror novel about a man on the brink.
Mario's small daughter has died of leukemia, and he's freshly estranged from his wife, Melisa. Finding himself deeply in debt with…
What we're reading: Flanagan & Rundell
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Chris Gordon is reading Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
I'm at that time of the year when I reflect on the year that has been. I'm looking at all the pathways I could have, should have, would have taken if I had stopped to take some time to think a little longer.
Reading Richard Flanagan's Question 7 can be blamed for this newly…
What we're reading: Mushin, Kingsolver & Rundell
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Bernard Caleo is reading Ultrawild by Steve Mushin
Steve Mushin’s Ultrawild is a book full of visionary, revolutionary plans and schematics for rewilding the world, one city at a time (or actually, if Steve has his way, all of the cities in the world simultaneously). In meticulous, large-format, comic-book-style pages, he steps us through his designs for flinging compost balls down city streets…
What we're reading: Tremain, Paolini & Spears
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Joanna Di Mattia is reading Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain
Over the past three months, I have read one great book after another. I recently finished Rose Tremain’s latest novel, Absolutely & Forever, which has continued this golden streak.
This is a book of young passions written with the insight of age, told from the perspective of Marianne Clifford, a teenager…
What we're reading and listening to: Mitski, Hobbs & McBride
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Emma Davison is listening to The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We by Mitski
I have been a bit slow on the reading front this week but on a musical note, I have been loving Mitski’s album The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We which came out just last month, a great album for all the sad girls out there, and…
What we're reading: Yoshitake, Levy & Ward
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Dani Solomon is reading I Can Open That! by Shinsuke Yoshitake
Another Shinsuke Yoshitake book, another hit. I Can Open That! begins with a little boy who laments how hard it is to open things like chocolate wrappers and orange juice. This leads to him imagining how great it will be when he can open things on his own, he'll be an official…
What we're reading: Lucashenko, Penelope & Boynton
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Rosalind McClintock is reading Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
I was lucky enough to see Melissa Lucashenko in conversation with David Marr at the BookPeople conference. Lucashenko came across as fiercely intelligent, generous and funny, that along with the passages she read aloud from her new book Edenglassie prompted me to hunt down a copy. It did not disappoint, it is all these things…
What we're reading: Fawcett, Collins & Jackson
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Lian Hingee is reading Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
I don't know if it's the general dreadful state of the world, the awfulness of the news, or the looming dread of climate catastrophe, but there's been a really big uptick in 'cosy' iterations of my favourite genres, and I for one am here for it. People being nice to each…
What we're reading: Özlü, Jackson & Hammer
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Baz Ozturk is reading Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü & Maureen Freely (trans.)
Translated and published into English for the first time this year, this modern Turkish classic is a beautiful, brutal and surprisingly life-affirming novella. It’s the story of a woman – in and out of psychiatric wards, being forcefully treated with electroshock therapy – struggling to assert her will…
What we're reading: McCarthy, Kaminsky & Keegan
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Emma Davison is reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
I have been making my way through Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy this week and it’s definitely been a tough read. This isn’t to say I’m not enjoying it, I love McCarthy’s bleak and ruthless writing style, Blood Meridian is a treacherous journey which I am glad I embarked upon.
Based on true historical…
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