Jason Austin
Jason Austin is a buyer at Readings Carlton
Review — 29 Jan 2014
The Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin
Armistead Maupin began writing Tales of the City as instalments for a San Francisco newspaper in the seventies. Nearly four decades later, The Days of Anna Madrigal, which is…
Review — 22 Sep 2013
Goat Mountain by David Vann
Goat Mountain is a ride of a novel. It’s dark, brooding, violent, powerful and brilliant because David Vann knows how to place the reader right alongside his characters, whether we…
Review — 6 May 2013
The White Mountains by John Christopher
As a kid I found reading a struggle, but I can honestly say that a trilogy turned that around for me. In 1983, as an eleven-year-old, I read the first…
Blog post — 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…
Blog post — 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…
Review — 22 Apr 2012
Dirt by David Vann
David Vann’s latest offering is not for the faint-hearted and is definitely an ‘adult only’ read. Dirt explores the life of a young man trying to find his path in…
Review — 27 Mar 2012
The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler
Many people my age have been put off by the novels of Anne Tyler as Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant was set as high-school required reading in the 80s. This…
Blog post — 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…