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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…
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…
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