Rosalind McClintock

Rosalind McClintock is the marketing manager for Readings

Blog post — 18 Aug 2022

Gift ideas for Fathers who enjoy crime fiction

If you are anything like me your father probably spent at least half of your teenage years trying to solve the mystery of the missing second work sock. Which may…

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Review — 19 Sep 2022

Liberation Day by George Saunders

I admit, I have never read George Saunders, which makes me some sort of short-story philistine I believe, and I love short stories. So, I am afraid I cannot compare…

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Review — 30 Aug 2022

Marshmallow by Victoria Hannan

Victoria Hannan is a beautiful writer. Her prose is clean and the world she creates is incredibly clear. Hannan is skilled at dropping you into the middle of a situation…

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Blog post — 19 May 2022

What the Degrassi Junior High students are reading now

 Oh Degrassi, how I loved you growing up. I’d race back from school as a latchkey kid (actually it was just under a blob of cement in an oversized pot…

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Review — 2 Mar 2022

All’s Well by Mona Awad

All’s Well by Mona Awad is dark and sharp. It is, like its namesake Shakespeare play, a ‘Problem’ – a wondrous blur between comedy and tragedy that deals with the…

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Review — 27 Jan 2022

The Cost of Labour by Natalie Kon-yu

As a feminist, birthing parent and mother, The Cost of Labour validates much of what I have thought, felt and experienced since I entered the foetal abyss. Beyond just validation…

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Review — 28 Jun 2022

The Complete Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem

It is such a joy to dive back into the world of Brambly Hedge with my child. And what a world it is, if house prices increased by 26% during…

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