Joe Murray
Joe Murray is from Readings Kids
Blog post — 30 Oct 2024
Short scares: more recommended horror reads for Halloween
During the month of October our Readings bookseller and resident horror aficionado, Joe Murray, is sharing his picks for the very best horror short fiction to get you in the…
Blog post — 29 Oct 2024
Short scares: recommended reads to get you in the mood for Halloween
During the month of October our Readings bookseller and resident horror fiction aficionado, Joe Murray, is sharing his picks for the very best horror short fiction to get you in…
Review — 27 Oct 2024
Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk & Heather Cleary (trans.)
Marina Yuszczuk’s new novel, the pensive and erotic Thirst, makes one thing clear: the vampire will always hold an important place in our cultural consciousness. Not just a classic…
Review — 23 Sep 2024
Landovel by Emily Rodda
Some authors only need a couple of pages to convince you that their newest book will be great. Emily Rodda can do it with a map. From the moment I…
Review — 23 Sep 2024
A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez & Megan McDowell (trans.)
‘It was the terror that came from the cold of the grave … a glimpse beyond the walls of sleep.’ To step into Mariana Enriquez’s vision of Argentina is to…
Review — 26 Aug 2024
Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody by Patrick Ness & Tim Miller (illus.)
Great News! Zeke and his best friends Daniel and Alicia have been given the very noble task of being school hall monitors! Sure, they’re also the only monitor lizards at…
Review — 19 May 2024
Imperial Harvest by Bruce Pascoe
Bruce Pascoe’s Imperial Harvest begins with cruelty. The one-eyed, one-armed horseman Yen Se loses his wife and child to an inferno born from the Great Khan’s bloodthirsty ambition; Yen Se…
Review — 22 Apr 2024
The Apprentice Witnesser by Bren MacDibble
Basti lives in a world much smaller than our own, a world of villages and tight-knit communities created after climate collapse and deadly disease wiped out all cities and most…
Review — 21 Apr 2024
Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey
What do we owe the objects we send into space? This might seem like a strange question to ask, but after reading the five heartfelt stories of Ceridwen Dovey’s Only…
Review — 25 Mar 2024
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe with Lyn Harwood
In 2014’s Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe shared the untold story of Indigenous agriculture, suggesting a history very different to the orthodox colonial narrative and starting a political firestorm in…
