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Our top ten bestsellers of the week
The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
Lion by Saroo Brierley
The Family by Chris Johnston and Rosie Jones
The Dry by Jane Harper
Knowledge Courage Leadership by Barry Jones
Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford
Jasper Jones (film tie-in edition) by Craig Silvey
Into the Heart of Tasmania by Rebe Taylor
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Crying Place by Lia Hills
We’re happy to see that nine of the 10 titles listed here are…
Our children's and YA top ten bestsellers of the week
Lion by Saroo Brierley (Young Readers’ Edition)
Florette by Anna Walker
Little People, Big Dreams: Marie Curie by Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau Isa
Busting! by Aaron Blabey
Triangle by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen
Unleashed (The Adventures of Dog Man Book 2) by Dav Pilkey
Welcome to Country by Aunty Joy Murphy and Lisa Kennedy
Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
King’s Cage (Red Queen Book 3) by Victoria Aveyard
Here's why you should read Big Little Lies
If the buzz around the new TV adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies hasn’t yet convinced you to read this novel, then let our booksellers tempt you with their rave reviews
‘Liane Moriarty’s novel is as good as everyone says. The writing is funny and fast-paced; the narrative is packed with plot twists and turns.’
– Chris Gordon, events manager
‘My copy of Big Little Lies very quickly did the rounds of my school-community friends (in several cases, wife…
What we're reading: Carrie Fisher, Angie Thomas and the Mekong Review
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 The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Angie Thomas’s debut YA novel has generated a lot of buzz, and it’s definitely deserved. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, The Hate U Give is the story of 16-year-old Starr who is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed…
Readings is a finalist for the Customer Experience Store Design of the Year Award
We’re thrilled to have been selected as a finalist for Inside Retail’s Customer Experience Store Design of the Year Award, for the design of our two new shops, Readings Doncaster and Readings Kids.
Working with local Melbourne architecture firm Nest, and drawing on our own experience of almost 50 years in bookselling, we aimed to create the best in-store customer experience in both new bookshops. We wanted our shops to be beautiful spaces for the community to gather…
Walter Scott Prize longlist 2017
The longlist for the 2017 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has been announced.
Here is the full longlist of 13 titles:
A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Crane Pond by Richard Francis
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
The Vanishing Futurist by Charlotte Hobson
The Good People by Hannah Kent
Minds of Winter by Ed O’Loughlin
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Inky Awards longlists 2017
The Centre for Youth Literature has just announced the two longlists for the Inky Awards.
The Inky Awards recognise high-quality young adult literature. There are two awards: the Gold Inky Award for an Australian book, and the Silver Inky Award for an international book. The shortlist is selected by young adults, and the winners are voted for online by the teen readers of InsideaDog.com.au.
The Gold Longlist (Australian books)
The Gold Longlist makes for a fantastic LoveOzYA reading list…
Q&A with Alison Evans, author of Ida
We chat with debut Australian author Alison Evans about their debut YA crossover novel, Ida, an evanescent story of doppelgangers, time travel and deciding what to do with your life.
Your protagonist Ida has the intriguing ability to move between parallel universes – an ability that grants her power and control, but also brings her much confusion. What were the origins of this idea?
I was working in a cafe at a tourist railway and had finished for the…
Stories told from beyond the grave
Whether you believe in ghosts or not, these otherworldly narrators offer a fascinating take on the world of the living.
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold’s bestselling novel tends to be the one that comes first to mind when people think about books narrated from the afterlife. Suzie Salmon was murdered by her creepy neighbour at the age of 14, and she watches from heaven as her family comes to term with her unsolved disappearance. The Lovely Bones…
How to read a wordless picture book
One of the most popular picture books of last year was comedian and actor B.J. Novak’s The Book with No Pictures. The book, which really does have only words and no pictures, compels the reader to say some very silly things out loud.
But what about a picture book that has no words? How on earth do you ‘read’ it? Put simply, it’s up to you and the little person sitting with you to supply your own words and…