Julia Jackson
Julia Jackson is the assistant manager of Readings Carlton
Review — 2 Mar 2023
Judgement Day by Mali Waugh
Like last April’s Daughters of Eve by Nina D Campbell, Mali’s Waugh’s debut Judgement Day contains a strong female lead as well as strong themes of family violence. Detective Jillian…
Review — 18 Jan 2023
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
This latest release from Deepti Kapoor is not your conventional crime thriller-slash-police procedural. It is very far from it. Rather, Kapoor has delivered an expansive, cinematic literary thriller.
At the…
Review — 19 Sep 2022
The Bodyline Fix by Marion Stell
If the Federal Government had put a republic referendum to the Australian people at the conclusion of the infamous Ashes Test series of 1932–33, it may well have been successful…
Blog post — 13 Sep 2022
The best new crime reads in September
Our crime specialist shares 12 great crime reads to look out for this month.
CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
No Country for Girls by Emma Styles
Doing this column is…
Blog post — 15 Aug 2022
The Readings Prize: Young Adult shortlist
The Readings Young Adult Prize is presented to the best new voice in Australian young adult literature. This report is written by 2022 chair of judges Julia Jackson (Readings Carlton…
Blog post — 10 Apr 2022
The best new crime reads in April
Daughters of Eve by Nina D. Campbell
In Sydney one bright clear day, a high-profile barrister is publicly gunned down on the courthouse steps. Not long after, another bloke in…
Review — 30 May 2022
Stunt Kids by Trent Roberts
Poor Gretel Grey. An only child, stuck with boring parents, homeschooled away from the outside world, forced to wear drab grey pinafores and grey socks of the type you’d find…
Review — 28 Mar 2022
Daughters of Eve by Nina D. Campbell
In Sydney one bright clear day, a high-profile barrister is publicly gunned down on the courthouse steps. Not long after, another bloke in Melbourne suffers the same fate, and then…
Review — 2 Mar 2022
The Colony by Audrey Magee
In the previous issue of our August newsletter one of my dear colleagues wondered if his reading year had peaked after finishing Hanya Yanagihara’s newest book. The very same notion…
Review — 26 Apr 2021
Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz
This stunning debut is one of the best books I’ve read this year (so far). Melbourne-based author Jacqueline Bublitz has crafted a haunting story about grief, limbo, transition and friendship…
