Lian Hingee
Lian Hingee is digital marketing manager at Readings. She’s been working in books for twenty years.
Review — 25 Aug 2024
The Wedding Forecast by Nina Kenwood
When I heard that award-winning YA author Nina Kenwood was releasing her first book for adult readers, I could barely contain my glee. Kenwood’s first two books – It Sounded…
Blog post — 10 Jul 2024
Recent literary adaptations of Greek myths
It's a good time to be a fan of literary retellings of Greek mythology. Which is to say, it's a good time to be me. Over the past couple of…
Review — 26 Feb 2024
The Hunter by Tana French
In Tana French’s 2015 novel The Searcher, retired cop Cal Hooper moves from Chicago to a remote Irish village where he becomes entangled in the case of a missing…
Review — 26 Feb 2024
What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan
Australia is blessed with some of the very best crime writers in the world right now, and Dervla McTiernan is without a doubt one of the finest. Her debut, The…
Blog post — 6 Feb 2024
Children's books to share on World Read Aloud Day
Today (7 February) is World Read Aloud Day, and as a parent who is one bedtime story away from chucking my four-year-old's favourite book out the window I thought that…
Blog post — 23 Nov 2023
Passive aggressive gift guide
The festive season is upon us, and with it comes celebrations and gifts and forced socialisation with people you definitely don't see eye to eye with. Grit your teeth and…
Blog post — 23 Oct 2023
Contemporary classics to gift a new baby
So your best friend/sibling/cousin/workmate/neighbour/casual acquaintance is having a baby. Books make the ideal keepsake gift, but before you accidentally buy them their seventh copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar or…
Review — 25 Sep 2023
Everyone On This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
Benjamin Stevenson’s bestselling novel Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone was a comedic delight: Agatha Christie meets Knives Out via a distinctly Australian first-person narrator.
In Everyone On This…
Review — 25 Sep 2023
The Opposite of Success by Eleanor Elliott Thomas
I was on page two of Eleanor Elliott Thomas’s debut novel The Opposite of Success when I laughed out loud for the first time. By page five, I was reading…
Review — 31 Jul 2023
My Husband by Maud Ventura & Emma Ramadan (trans.)
A few years ago every second domestic thriller came out with breathless marketing comparing it to Gillian Flynn’s bestselling blockbuster Gone Girl. But few (if any) managed to capture…
