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Jason Austin

Jason Austin is a buyer at Readings Carlton.

Featured Review

Whalefall
by Daniel Kraus

Reviewed by
Jason Austin, Mar 2024

‘Whale fall’ is the term used when the carcass of a deceased whale settles on the ocean floor at a depth greater than a kilometre. It’s there that the body is consumed by all manner of deep-sea scavengers, sometimes over…

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Recent blog posts by Jason Austin

International fiction
28 Sep 2023

My year of horror (reading)

Readings Carlton bookseller Jason Austin decided to return to a genre he’d enjoyed as a young reader and exclusively read horror books in 2023. Here he shares the results of his experiment. Like a lot of kids, my love of…
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q and as and interviews
1 Nov 2016

Q&A with Matthew Griffin, author of Hide

American author Matthew Griffin chats with our own bookseller Jason Austin about his powerful debut novel, Hide. (You can also read Jason’s rave review of the book here.) First of all let me say congratulations! I loved Hide so…
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Books
23 Nov 2014

Five books that have made an impression on me this year

Bookseller Jason Austin shares five books that have made an impression on him in 2014 Young Hearts Crying by Richard Yates. Every year I try to read at least one novel by Richard Yates. It’s a relatively new tradition of…
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q and as and interviews
25 Jun 2014

Q&A with Anna George

Jason Austin talks with Anna George about her new novel, What Came Before begins with David’s confession that he’s killed his wife Elle. As the story progresses, we learn not only what came before that event, but what came before…
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Books We've Loved
29 Nov 2012

What I loved: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Jason Austin shares with us a book he loved for our new ‘What I Loved’ series. About ten years ago I was stuck for something to read. You might think it strange that a bookseller was bereft of reading material…
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General
9 May 2012

Q&A with David Vann, author of Dirt

Jason Austin of Readings Carlton chats to David Vann about his latest novel. Your first two novels – My family hunted on the same ranch every year, and as we walked through each part of that landscape, my father and…
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Meet the bookseller
12 Feb 2012

Meet the Bookseller with Jason Austin from Readings Carlton

We chat to Jason Austin from Readings Carlton about chancing upon Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road, the appeal of morally ambiguous characters and not underestimating Young Adult fiction. Why do you work in books? I have always loved stories…
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