Mark Rubbo
Mark Rubbo is chairman of Readings. He is a past president of the Australian Booksellers Association and was founding chair of the Melbourne Writers Festival. In 2006 he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia.
Blog post — 9 Nov 2017
Mark Rubbo chats with Peter Carey
Our Managing Director Mark Rubbo chats with Man Booker prize winning author Peter Carey about his .
A large part of A Long Way from Home takes place during one…
Blog post — 25 Oct 2017
Mark's Say, November 2017
I’ve just read Peter Carey’s latest novel, A Long Way From Home (you can read my short review in these pages) and can highly recommend it. I’ve always loved Carey’s…
Review — 25 Sep 2016
We Are Not Such Things by Justine Van der Leun
In the final days of apartheid a young American student, Amy Biehl, was murdered by a black mob in one of Cape Town’s townships. Three young men were convicted of…
Blog post — 26 Sep 2017
Mark Rubbo interviews Richard Flanagan
Our Managing Director Mark Rubbo chats with Man Booker prize winning author Richard Flanagan about his new genre-bending novel, First Person.
Your new novel First Person has some connection…
Blog post — 5 Sep 2017
A letter from Mark Rubbo on Indigenous Literacy Day
Dear friends,
Today is Indigenous Literacy Day. I am writing to you to seek your support for the work the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) does to foster literacy in remote…
Review — 23 Sep 2015
Island Home by Tim Winton
This book reveals two Tim Wintons. There is the wordsmith we feel we already know well through his renowned and evocative fiction, but this book also reveals a person who…
Blog post — 23 Aug 2017
Mark's Say, September 2017
Three and a half years ago, a great big, fat, intimidating-looking economics book burst onto the scene and changed the economic discourse. Based on years of research, its findings were…
Review — 28 Sep 2016
The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton
Helen Garner’s Everywhere I Look, a collection of personal essays and diary notes, delighted readers and it went on to become one of our bestsellers. I’ve got a feeling…
Blog post — 26 Jul 2017
Mark's Say, August 2017
I’m looking forward to the Melbourne Writers Festival: still going strong, since 1986. It’s director Lisa Dempster’s last MWF, and she and her colleagues have combined their creative talents to…
Blog post — 28 Jun 2017
Mark's Say, July 2017
The world moves in mysterious ways sometimes. Some time ago, we received a complaint from the Anti Defamation Commission (ADC) about some wrapping paper on sale in our St Kilda…