Belle Place
Belle Place is a former editor of Readings Monthly
Review — 28 May 2014
Family Life by Akhil Sharma
In Akhil Sharma’s astounding second novel, a young boy visiting his older brother, who has suffered catastrophic brain damage, calls the older boy ‘Brother-life’, because ‘it was melodramatic and because…
Review — 20 Aug 2014
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
It’s difficult to loudly sing the praises of a book that covers such a harrowing subject. I had anticipated the release of Helen Garner’s new non-fiction since early in the…
Blog post — 11 Sep 2014
Belle Place presents the best book covers of September
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
I’m immediately engaged by the cover of Ali Smith’s How to Be Both, probably because of its clean use of type paired…
Blog post — 20 Aug 2014
Belle Place presents the best book covers of August
Vogliamo Tutto (We Want Everything) by Nanni Balestrini
This book from Italian writer Nanni Balestrini was first published in 1971. Vogliamo Tutto (We Want Everything) focuses on the ‘hot autumn…
Blog post — 29 Jul 2014
Books you might have missed in July
Given the sizeable number of new releases that arrive in store each month, here are notes from the Readings editorial office on books you might have missed in July.
Blog post — 4 Aug 2014
Q&A with Sophie Cunningham
Belle Place interviews Sophie Cunningham about her new work of non-fiction.
This year marks 40 years since Cyclone Tracy hit Darwin on Christmas Eve – what is your motivation for…
Blog post — 13 Jul 2014
Belle Place presents the best book covers of July
We can get very excited about book covers in the Readings office – the book as object is our trade, after all. Here are our favourite covers for July fiction…
Review — 16 Sep 2014
Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen by Erik Jensen
In 2008, the Archibald Prize-winning artist Adam Cullen invited Erik Jensen, now founding editor of The Saturday Paper, to write his biography. Cullen cited a book contract, from Thames…
Blog post — 29 Jun 2014
Books you might have missed in June
Given the sizeable number of new releases that arrive in store each month, here are notes from the Readings editorial office on books you might have missed in June.
Blog post — 25 Jun 2014
Belle Place's top picks for July
Your regular columnist, Martin Shaw, was holidaying in Germany last month, young family and reading material in tow, which leaves me the pleasure of reporting on bookish news from the…