Kate McIntosh
Kate McIntosh is the manager of Readings Emporium
Blog post — 7 Nov 2021
Andrew Pippos wins the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2021
Readings Doncaster manager and chair of judges Kate McIntosh on the buoyant, bittersweet joy of Lucky’s.
We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2021 Readings Prize for…
Blog post — 30 Aug 2021
The Readings New Australian Fiction Prize shortlist 2021
We are delighted to announce the six talented emerging authors shortlisted for this year’s Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Readings Doncaster manager and chair of judges, Kate McIntosh, shares…
Review — 3 Oct 2021
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
It’s 1954 and Emmett has just returned home from a stint in a juvenile prison. The bank is foreclosing on the family’s Nebraskan farm after his father’s death, and Emmettplans…
Review — 26 Apr 2021
The Beautiful Fall by Hugh Breakey
Thrice now, 179 days apart each time, Robbie Penfold has lost his mind. He suffers from a form of amnesia which wipes his memory clean every six months. No one…
Review — 30 Mar 2021
The Chase by Candice Fox
At a prison in Nevada, the annual friendly baseball game between the officers and the minimum-security inmates is due to take place. A bus load of family members is coming…
Review — 30 Mar 2021
The Truth About Her by Jacqueline Maley
When I reached the end of this book and read the author bio on the back page, I was not in the least bit surprised to discover Jacqueline Maley is…
Blog post — 10 Mar 2020
11 crime novels to read in March
Our acting crime columnist Kate McIntosh recommends Dervla McTiernan’s latest and third novel, and ten more crime fiction reads out this month.
The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan
Review — 23 Feb 2020
Desire Lines by Felicity Volk
Paddy is seven years old when his parents hand him over to the care of the nuns. It is 1952, and some might say he is lucky to get away…
Review — 23 Feb 2020
The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan
The Rúin, the novel which introduced us to Cormac Reilly, an Irish detective transferred to Galway and handed a cold case which leads him to unexpected places, was my…
Review — 29 Aug 2022
Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories by Joyce Lankester Brisley
Millicent Margaret Amanda (or Milly-Molly-Mandy for short) is a small girl who lives in an idyllic English village sometime in the 1920s, and when I was a small girl, living…