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 — 3 Feb 2014
Introducing the Readings New Australian Writing Award and Readings Children’s Book Prize
One of the things I’ve always liked to do is support Australian writing and publishing. Over my career, it has been a thrill to see how the local publishing industry…
Review — 29 Jan 2014
My Promised Land by Ari Shavit
My Promised Land is a profoundly inspiring and challenging book. It is an intensely personal impression of a country, for which the writer has intense admiration and affection but also…
Blog post — 27 Nov 2013
Mark Rubbo's Best Books of 2013
Our Managing Director Mark Rubbo shares his five favourite reads from the past year.
The Memory Trap by Andrea Goldsmith
This is a lovely, thoughtful novel. The protagonist, Nina Goldsmith…
Blog post — 13 Nov 2013
Mark's Say: The Age short story award & Max Perkins
A few months ago I was talking to Jason Steger, the literary editor of the Age. The Age has been, and still is, a great newspaper for the Melbourne…
Blog post — 16 Oct 2013
Our Best Bargains for October
Readings Managing Director Mark Rubbo shares his top picks for bargain lovers this month.
I’m excited by this month’s new bargains which includes some wonderful titles, and there are even…
Blog post — 1 Oct 2013
Mark Rubbo on Melbourne Literary Projects
I wanted to write about two cool things that are happening in Melbourne.
The first is the
, a shop front in Footscray’s Nicholson Street mall. Sandwiched…
Blog post — 18 Sep 2013
Our Best Bargains This Month
Readings Managing Director Mark Rubbo shares his top picks for bargain lovers this month.
My colleagues know that I love a good bargain, a book bargain that is. Publishers sell…
Blog post — 26 Aug 2013
Mark Rubbo's Top Five Upcoming Releases
Mark Rubbo takes a look at five important new Australian titles due for release over the coming months.
This coming season is a major one for Australian titles with five…
Review — 24 Sep 2013
Coal Creek by Alex Miller
Alex Miller migrated to Australia when he was only 16 and his first job was as a ringer in outback Queensland. That early experience in the Australian outback informs a…
Blog post — 4 Aug 2013
Readings Survey Results
Like me you’ve probably done a number of surveys, wondering what they were for and what happened to the information gleaned from them. Well, we recently sent out our own…