Clare Millar
Clare Millar is the children's specialist at Readings Malvern
Review — 31 Oct 2021
How Decent Folk Behave by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Maxine Beneba Clarke hardly needs an introduction. The author of several award-winning titles including The Hate Race and Foreign Soil, Beneba Clarke will delight readers with her fourth poetry…
Review — 1 Aug 2021
Beneath the Tree Line by Jane Gibian
Jane Gibian is the author of several poetry collections, and she returns with Beneath the Tree Line. I regret I haven’t previously read Gibian’s work, but I was thoroughly…
Review — 6 Sep 2021
How to Make a Basket by Jazz Money
Jazz Money won the 2020 David Unaipon Award for her collection How to Make a Basket, and it’s easy to see why: this is an absolutely stunning collection of…
Review — 28 Jun 2021
Trigger Warning by Maria Takolander
Maria Takolander is an established Australian poet, and Trigger Warning is her fourth collection. At times a deeply personal selection of poems, it left me in awe of a poet’s…
Review — 1 Jun 2021
Whisper Songs by Tony Birch
2021 is the year of Tony Birch, with two new books: one short story collection (Dark as Night, August) and one poetry collection. Birch has always been a…
Review — 26 Apr 2021
The Open by Lucy Van
I was immediately intrigued by Merlinda Bobis’s introduction to The Open in which she describes Lucy Van’s poetry as having ‘all doors open’. This is true – not just in…
Blog post — 13 Apr 2021
Penny Tangey wins the Readings Children’s Book Prize 2021
We are thrilled to share that the winner of the Readings Children’s Book Prize is As Fast As I Can by Penny Tangey! This thrilling and entertaining sporty adventure will…
Review — 30 Mar 2021
A Thousand Crimson Blooms by Eileen Chong
Poetry can be so incredibly personal, and Eileen Chong’s A Thousand Crimson Blooms is no exception. As a writer, Chong describes needing poetry in order to process the world, and…
Blog post — 24 Feb 2021
The Readings Children’s Book Prize shortlist 2021
The Readings Children’s Book Prize celebrates exciting new voices in Australian children’s literature. This year’s six shortlisted titles are for readers aged 5 to 12.
The 2021 shortlist is:
The…
Review — 1 Feb 2021
Literary Lion Tamers by Craig Munro
Everyone who knows me knows I’m obsessed with publishing, and I frequently read books about books, so I was thrilled to see Literary Lion Tamers published. Craig Munro has had…
