Gabrielle Williams
Gabrielle Williams was a bookseller at Readings Malvern, grants officer for the Readings Foundation, and manager of the Readings Prize. She was also the author of many books for young adults, including My Life as a Hashtag and It's Not You, It's Me.
Review — 28 Jan 2018
The Melody by Jim Crace
It was always going to be a tough act for Jim Crace to follow. I’d only just finished reading the astonishing Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, when I…
Blog post — 23 Oct 2017
Sam Carmody wins the 2017 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
The winner of the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction in 2017 is The Windy Season by Sam Carmody.
The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction is uniquely situated in…
Review — 24 Sep 2017
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
This review is going to be difficult to write, because The Ninth Hour is so masterful, so charming, so delightful, it’s going to be hard to do it justice. I…
Blog post — 21 Aug 2017
The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction shortlist 2017
The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction considers first and second books from Australian authors, with the aim of recognising exciting and exceptional new contributions to local literature.
Over the…
Review — 20 Aug 2017
The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
When a book starts with a quote from Nietzsche about Oedipus, you know you can expect fathers, sons, mothers and lovers to become entangled with devastating consequences. When th eauthor…
Blog post — 22 May 2017
Tackling social media in teen books
Gabrielle Williams is an an acclaimed author of young adult fiction. Her new novel, My Life as a Hashtag, is a funny, heartfelt read about rage, regret and the…
Review — 28 Sep 2015
Where My Heart Used To Beat by Sebastian Faulks
Like Alice down the rabbit hole (if Alice was a 60-year-old man, and the rabbit hole was somehow New York and London and a remote island off the coast of…
Review — 25 Jul 2016
In The Darkroom by Susan Faludi
If this book was written as fiction, you’d never believe it because you’d think it was too far-fetched. In 2004, Susan Faludi received an email from her father (whom she…
Review — 26 Aug 2015
The Blue Guitar by John Banville
Right from page one of John Banville’s new novel, you know you’re in for a ride with a tricky, slippery character. Oliver Orme describes himself as a thief and a…
Review — 26 Jun 2014
Happy are the Happy by Yasmina Reza
Happy are the Happy examines the lives of 18 Parisians as they struggle to cope with coupledom and marriage generally. And happy, it ain’t. There are 21 short stories in…