Jo Case
Jo Case is a former Readings Doncaster bookseller
Review — 22 Oct 2017
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
Following Trump’s election, classic dystopias like 1984 and The Handmaid’s Tale have resurfaced on bestseller lists. In our mid-climate-change, post-truth, resource-depleted, racist-and-sexist-backlash world, where we’re on the brink of the…
Review — 26 Mar 2018
Girls at the Piano by Virginia Lloyd
Entering the world of some memoirs feels like an intimate conversation with a stranger who will, over the course of your time together, become your new best friend. Reading Virginia…
Review — 25 Feb 2018
Skin in the Game by Sonya Voumard
Sonya Voumard’s father was a ‘member of Melbourne journalism’s gregarious tribe’. At ten years old, when she was fascinated and spooked by stories of child abductions, her father laid out…
Blog post — 6 Feb 2018
Gifts to cement your status as the cool aunt/uncle
Last week, a Gen-X friend of mine asked me for advice on books to gift his voraciously well-read, book-loving niece for her fourteenth birthday. She’d given him an impressively eclectic…
Blog post — 16 Nov 2017
The best DVDs of 2017
Every year our staff vote for their favourite books, albums, films and TV shows of the past 12 months. Here are our top 10 DVDs of the year, voted for…
Blog post — 30 Oct 2017
A reading list for fans of Mindhunter
Usually, it’s the books I read that lead me to other books. I finish one and follow the references and ideas to the next. But while I was watching David…
Review — 22 Oct 2017
Stories and True Stories by Helen Garner
I know I’m not the only Melbourne writer whose motto, at my laptop, is WWHGD (what would Helen Garner do?). From Monkey Grip – Readings’ first Australian bestseller – to…
Review — 22 Oct 2017
The Woman Who Fooled the World by Beau Donelly & Nick Toscano
You don’t need to have heard about Belle Gibson, the Instafamous ‘wellness warrior’ who made a fortune and built an empire on her claim to have treated her brain cancer…
Review — 22 Oct 2017
Heather, The Totality by Matthew Weiner
I was excited to read the first novel from Matthew Mad Men Weiner – not just because he’s the meticulous craftsman at the helm of one of my favourite screen…
Review — 24 Sep 2017
Mayhem by Sigrid Rausing
Sigrid Rausing is the editor (and owner) of Granta. Her grandfather built the Tetrapak global packaging empire. An heir to the resulting fortune, Rausing’s first memory is the smell…