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 — 1 Sep 2015
Today is Indigenous Literacy Day
Today is Indigenous Literacy Day. Between 40% and 60% of Indigenous children living in very remote locations across WA, SA and NT are achieving below minimum standards in Reading in…
Blog post — 31 Aug 2015
Mark's Say, September 2015
Last month I went to an event at our Hawthorn shop to celebrate the publication of The Hush Treasure Book. The book is a collection of original writings and…
Review — 26 Aug 2015
Under Cover: Adventures in the Art of Editing by Craig Munro
University of Queensland Press (UQP) is a fine independent publisher but from the early 70s to the late 90s in particular it really punched above its weight. At one time…
Blog post — 3 Aug 2015
Mark's Say, August 2015
The Australia Council was formed in 1967 by then Prime Minister Harold Holt and it was given statutory authority by the Whitlam government in 1975. Modelled on the successful Canada…
Blog post — 29 Jun 2015
Mark's Say, July 2015
The Australian merger of two publishing giants Penguin and Random House will be all but completed in early August as their distribution facilities merge into one combined facility. The process…
Blog post — 31 May 2015
Mark's Say, June 2015
For those of you who’ve read Drusilla Modjeska’s most recent novel, The Mountain, you’ll be aware of her affection for the people of Papua New Guinea. The Mountain is…
Blog post — 3 May 2015
Mark's Say, May 2015
Last month the Harper Competition Policy Review delivered its final report. Set up by the Abbott Government in late 2013, the report runs to 500 odd pages. As you might…
Blog post — 30 Mar 2015
Mark's Say, April 2015
One of the things we’ve been doing recently is visiting some of the organisations that The Readings Foundation has supported. Since 2012 the Foundation has sponsored the Wheeler Centre Hot…
Blog post — 2 Mar 2015
Mark's Say, March 2015
I’ve just attended American Booksellers Association’s Winter Institute. For four days, independent booksellers and authors gather together to discuss books and the state of the industry. Now in its tenth…
Review — 22 Mar 2015
The Life of Houses by Lisa Gorton
The Sydney Morning Herald once described Lisa Gorton as ‘one of the most sensuous and cerebral of Australian poets’, praise that could equally apply to her first novel, The Life…
