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.
Review — 26 May 2016
A Long Time Coming by Melanie Joosten
My father’s former partner died a few years ago at the aged care home her 90-year-old cousin, Eric, and I had been forced to place her in. Whenever we’d visit…
Review — 26 Aug 2015
Sweet Caress by William Boyd
There’s a small group of us at Readings who are great fans of William Boyd, with one of my colleagues claiming his Any Human Heart as one of her favourite…
Blog post — 2 May 2016
Mark's Say, May 2016
We won The Bookstore of the Year Award last month at London Book Fair’s International Excellence Awards! We won it for our ‘community outreach, support of Australian authors and [our]…
Blog post — 3 Apr 2016
Mark's Say, April 2016
One of the highlights of the past month for me was hearing indigenous journalist Stan Grant talk about his new book, Talking to My Country at one of our events…
Blog post — 6 Mar 2016
Mark's Say, March 2016
The 8th of March is International Women’s Day and it’s appropriate that the longlist for the UK Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction will be announced in the same month, on…
Blog post — 2 Feb 2016
Mark's Say, February 2016
Those of you who know me will be well aware of how pleased I am with The Readings Foundation and the projects it supports. Since we started in 2009, we’ve…
Review — 23 Apr 2015
Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
Last night I went to I Gradi for pizza with my son. It was an easy decision for Joe and me to make and we enjoyed the pizzas very much…
Blog post — 1 Nov 2015
Mark's Say, November 2015
One of the pleasures of my job is meeting authors and hearing about their books – and as most booksellers and authors do enjoy a drink, we often meet in…
Blog post — 30 Sep 2015
Mark's Say, October 2015
Have you noticed those cool-looking books with the yellow spine and the Text Publishing colophon? Officially known as Text Classics, at only $12.95 they’re a chance for any of us…
Review — 27 Jan 2015
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler writes about families; usually they are quite ordinary, middle-class families. They might have a few quirks but mostly they, like the rest of us, are trying to navigate…
