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
Anita Heiss
Set on timeless Wiradyuri country, where the life-giving waters of the rivers can make or break dreams, and based on devastating true events, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) is an…
Available to order, ships in 10-14 daysAvailable to order
Rebecca Starford
A powerfully insightful and luminous portrait of courage and loyalty, and the sacrifices made in their name.
Available to order, ships in 3-5 daysAvailable to order
Tony Birch
In The White Girl, Tony Birch has created memorable characters whose capacity for love and courage are a timely reminder of the endurance of the human spirit.
In stock at 7 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 7 shops
Elizabeth Gilbert
A captivating story of botany, exploration and desire, by the multimillion bestselling author of Eat Pray Love.
In stock at 4 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 4 shops
Colson Whitehead
A devastating, driven narrative by a great American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality of the United States.
In stock at 8 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 8 shops
Lara Prescott
Sold in twenty-five countries and poised to become a global literary sensation, Lara Prescott’s dazzling first novel about the women in the CIA’s typing pool and the fate of Boris…
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Barcelona 1945: young Daniel Sempere is taken to a fabulous secret library called the Cemetery of Forgotten Books where he is told he must ‘adopt’ a single book, promising to…
In stock at 5 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 5 shops
Esi Edugyan
When two English brothers take the helm of a Barbados sugar plantation, Washington Black - an eleven-year-old field slave - finds himself selected as personal servant to one of them…
Hannah Kent
Based on a true story, Burial Rites is a deeply moving novel about freedom and the ways we will risk everything for love. In beautiful, cut-glass prose, Hannah Kent portrays…
Jane Rawson
From the Wreck tells the remarkable story of George Hills, who survived the sinking of the steamship Admella off the South Australian coast in 1859. Haunted by his memories and…
In stock at 2 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 2 shops
Toni Morrison
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is…
Anthony Doerr
A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War…
Ian McEwan
A story that begins with three young people in the garden of a country house on the hottest day of 1935, and ends with three profoundly changed lives. A depiction…
Lucy Treloar
A stunning debut novel from the winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Pacific Region) and the 2013 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award.
In stock at 3 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 3 shops
George Saunders
The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn…
A magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Nguy?n Phan Qu? Mai
A powerful, captivating tale of family secrets and hidden heartache from an internationally acclaimed author
Kate Grenville
A universal and timeless story of love, identity and belonging
Anita Diamant
An international publishing phenomena, this beautiful and thought provoking novel tells the story, lost to history by the chronicles of men, of Dinah, Jacob’s only daughter in the Book of…
Jennifer Egan
The long-awaited novel from the bestselling author of Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad.
Richard Flanagan
In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier…
Geraldine Brooks
Brooks’s luminous second novel, after 2001’s acclaimed Year of Wonders , imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr March. An idealistic abolitionist, March has gone to serve the Union cause…
In stock at 6 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 6 shops
