Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Debra Oswald
One ordinary extraordinary woman living through a century of massive change, from the bestselling author of The Family Doctor.
Order online and we’ll ship when availablePre-order now
From the creator of ‘Offspring’ and author of Useful, a gripping, wry and tender novel about how holding on too tightly can cost us what we love.
Available to order, ships in approx 3 weeksAvailable to order
The attachments we form shape our experience of the world and our understanding of who we are. ‘Hell is other people', wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, his point being less about misanthropy…
In stock at 5 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 5 shops
When Lewis is given a spy kit for his birthday, he and his best friend, Frank Cosentino, form a secret club at school. It’s great fun to start with, but…
Available to order, ships in 10-14 daysAvailable to order
‘The Family Doctor is a compelling thriller - fast-paced, gripping and frightening. But is more than that because it is a story that draws desperately needed attention to domestic abuse…
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
Once a charming underachiever, he’s now such a loser that he can’t even commit suicide properly. Waking up in hospital after falling the wrong way on a rooftop, he comes…
Available to order, ships in 3-5 daysAvailable to order
Imagine the worst soccer team you ever saw, triple it, and you’ve got the Redback Leftovers. Will Fisher’s got a lot to handle this season. He’s ended up in a…
Zac and Corey are best mates. They skate in deserted carparks, along the streets, wherever they can. Good girl Lauren Saxelby’s been hanging around, filming the skaters for some competition…
A riveting, provocative novel about women’s fury, traumatic grief, new love, deep friendship, and the preciousness of life, The Family Doctor asks the question: Should you cling to faith in…
Ash is drooling over his favourite guitar - the one he can’t afford - when he meets Charlie Novak. Charlie convinces Ash to play in his band. Erin is wandering…
Gary has failed in everything he has attempted. But when he inherits a block of land, he gets an urge to build a nest with Sue-Ann, his angry and pregnant…
A group of kids battle with their local council to get a skatepark built in their home town of Narragindi. In the midst of this struggle, they are forced to…
Oswald takes on the odd-couple genre by pairing an aged artist, Leo Bailey, with his live-in minder, Therese - a young woman fresh out of gaol. Added to the dysfunctional…
After the murder of her husband, Celia has shut herself and her 16-year-old daughter Zo away, toiling on a peach farm in the middle of nowhere. The arrival of two…
Things aren’t going well for the Conway sisters. Dad’s just married the Geography teacher, oldest sister Bec’s been evicted and Evie’s suffering serious issues with her new besties. Michaela has…
A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total…
One of a series of new plays for age 14 upwards, strongly linked to successful Youth Theatre projects. Each play contains quality writing with a direct appeal to young people…
In the summer of 1976 it’s picking season on an Australian stone-fruit orchard run by Celia, a hardworking woman in her early forties. Years ago, when her husband was killed…
Hardly anyone notices Nathan, the new boy. Except the school bully. But when the Ice Rocket competition begins, people get to know Nathan for what he really is…
Frank, class clown, can’t laugh any more. Has the wind really put a No Laughing Curse on him?
LIBRARY EDITION: When Lewis is given a spy kit for his birthday, he and his best friend, Frank Cosentino, form a secret club at school. It’s great fun to start…
Katherine Kovacic
Men get away with murder all the time. Now it’s our turn … A twisty, intriguing crime novel for fans of The Mother and The Family Doctor.
