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FREE SEPTEMBER 2017 BOOKS MUSIC FILM EVENTS THE READINGS PRIZE Announcing the 2017 shortlist page 6 FATHER’S DAY GIFT GUIDE Special lift-out page 11 NEW IN SEPTEMBER CHRIS GEORGIA JOHN THE THE WAR WOMERSLEY BLAIN LE CARRE SALESMAN ON DRUGS $32.99 $29.99 $32.99 $29.95 $21.95 $27.99 $26.99 $27.99 page 21 page 22 page 6 page 15 page 9 CARLTON 309 Lygon St 9347 6633 KIDS 315 Lygon St 9341 7730 DONCASTER Westfield Doncaster, 619 Doncaster Rd 9810 0891 HAWTHORN 701 Glenferrie Rd 9819 1917 MALVERN 185 Glenferrie Rd 9509 1952 ST KILDA 112 Acland St 9525 3852 STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA 328 Swanston St 8664 7540 See shop opening hours, browse and buy online at www.readings.com.au % Time to plan your escape… 25OFF! Discover over 100 destinations with DK Receive 25% off the RRP for DK Eyewitness Travel Guides during September at your local Readings (excluding Readings Kids) or online at www.readings.com.au A WORLD OF IDEAS: SEE ALL THERE IS TO KNOW READINGS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2017 3 News FATHER’S DAY It’s Father’s Day on Sunday 3 September. We’ve included a handy gift guide in this issue of Readings Monthly to help you find the perfect bookish present, and you’ll also find plenty of ideas in our seven shops. READINGS WINS STORE FIT-OUT OF THE YEAR AWARD AT 2017 Readings Monthly AUSTRALIAN RETAIL AWARDS Free, independent monthly newspaper We’re delighted to announce we have published by Readings Books, Music & Film won the Store Fit-Out of the Year award Subscribe at the 2017 eftpos ARA Australian Retail You can subscribe to Readings Monthly and Awards! We won this award for the our e-news by visiting our website: design of our two newest bookshops: readings.com.au/sign-up Readings Doncaster (in Westfield Doncaster) and Readings Kids (next-door Editor to our Carlton shop). Both shops were Jo Case designed by local Melbourne architecture [email protected] firm Nest Architects. The Australian Retail Awards are Australia’s first and Melanie Cheng, Heather Taylor Johnson 25% OFF DK EYEWITNESS Editorial Assistant largest retail awards program. You can and Jane Rawson. The series, called TRAVEL GUIDES Judi Mitchell find out more about the awards, and this [email protected] ‘Readings Recommends’, also features Dreaming about your next trip? Luckily, year’s other winners from across the Melanie Joosten, Eliza Henry-Jones, we are offering 25% off our range of DK categories, at australianretailawards.com. Proofreaders Sally Abbott, Sarah Bailey, Mark Brandi, Eyewitness Travel Guides throughout au. If you haven’t seen our newest shops, Judi Mitchell, Oliver Driscoll Jennifer Down, Ryan O’Neill, and winner September. This fantastic offer includes now is the perfect time to pop in for a of this year’s Readings Young Adult Book travel guides and phrase books. The sale is visit and see our award-winning designs! Kids/YA Curator Prize, Zana Fraillon. on in-stock items only, while stocks last, at Alexa Dretzke The 2017 Melbourne Writers Festival all Readings shops (except Readings Kids) runs from Friday 25 August to Sunday 3 THE READINGS PRIZE FOR NEW and online until 30 September. Music Curator September, and Readings is proud to be AUSTRALIAN FICTION 2017 Dave Clarke the official bookseller. Come and visit the SHORTLIST Readings Festival Bookshop, meet authors THE READINGS FOUNDATION We’re delighted to announce this year’s Classical Music Curator in-store after their events, and get your GRANTS OPEN shortlist for the Readings Prize for New Phil Richards books signed. We’re open daily in the Atrium Applications for The Readings Australian Fiction. The shortlisted books at Federation Square during the festival. Foundation grants 2018 will open are The Windy Season by Sam Carmody DVDs Curator 9am, Monday 25 September 2017. The (Allen & Unwin), Australia Day by Melanie Lou Fulco Readings Foundation was established in Cheng (Text Publishing), Jean Harley INDIGENOUS LITERACY DAY 2009 to support Victorian organisations Was Here by Heather Taylor Johnson Advertising This year Indigenous Literacy Day is on that wish to further the development of (University of Queensland Press), The Good Stella Charls Wednesday 6 September. The Indigenous literacy, community work and the arts. [email protected] People by Hannah Kent (Pan Macmillan), Literacy Foundation (ILF) aims to Applications must be completed and (03) 9341 7739 The Lost Pages by Marija Pericˇic´ (Allen raise literacy levels and improve the lodged electronically by 5pm, Monday & Unwin) and From the Wreck by Jane opportunities of Indigenous Australians 23 October 2017. For more information, Graphic Design Rawson (Transit Lounge). living in remote and isolated regions. please visit readings.com.au/the- Cat Matteson This year’s guest judge is celebrated Ten per cent of funds from books sold in colourcode.com.au readings-foundation author Christos Tsiolkas. He will join our shops on Wednesday 6 September our staff judging panel to select a winner will be donated to the ILF. We’re proud Front Cover from the shortlist. The winning book to have raised over $2700 at our August WANGARATTA FESTIVAL OF The September Readings Monthly cover will be featured in the November edition features our award-winning Readings event celebrating Andy Griffiths’ and JAZZ & BLUES Doncaster shop, which turns one year old of Readings Monthly and the author will Terry Denton’s The 91-Storey Treehouse The 2017 Wangaratta Festival of Jazz this month. Image by Lian Hingee. receive prize money of $3000. Read more – thank you to everyone who came and Blues (3 to 5 November) showcases about the shortlisted titles on page 6, and along for your contribution. For more You can find Readings Doncaster at some of the world’s finest local and at readings.com.au/the-readings-prize- Westfield Doncaster, on the ground floor, information about ILF, please visit international jazz and blues artists. opposite the David Jones entrance. for-new-australian-fiction indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au. Over three days, die-hard jazz and blues fans immerse themselves in a bounty of Cartoon scintillating performances. With over 300 CELEBRATE THE BEST IN CLASSICAL MUSIC SALE Oslo Davis artists performing across eight stages, NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION The Readings classical music sale is back! oslodavis.com catch some or all of the music as part of a AT MELBOURNE WRITERS With discounts of up to 50% on CDs and weekend getaway in beautiful North East FESTIVAL 2017 classical box-sets, this year’s sale includes Prices and availability Victoria. Readings is the official retailer As part of this year’s Melbourne Writers recordings of Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Please note that all prices and release of the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and dates in Readings Monthly are correct at Festival, we’re excited to be hosting Beethoven, Einaudi, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Blues. Tickets and full program details time of publication. However, prices and a full day of fantastic free events Schubert, Vivaldi, Wagner and Philip Glass. are available at wangarattajazz.com release dates may change without notice. showcasing a range of new Australian These composers are performed by greats Special price offers apply only for the fiction. Join us at The Cube at ACMI on of the classical world: John Williams, month in which they are featured in the Special ticket offer for Readings Saturday 2 September from 10am and Yo-Yo Ma, Glenn Gould, Martha Argerich Readings Monthly. customers: When booking your festival hear from some amazing talented local and Herbert von Karajan, among others. tickets, prior to September 30, enter writers, including four of the authors The sale is available in all Readings shops Readings donates 10% of its profits each the promotion code READINGS2017, to shortlisted for The Readings Prize for (except Readings Kids) and online from year to The Readings Foundation: receive discounted tickets to the festival. readings.com.au/the-readings-foundation New Australian Fiction: Sam Carmody, now until 30 September, while stocks last. 9 months, 4 days, 2 hours, forever 2 minutes Give Dad a gift that lasts as long as your love. get the whole story at hachette.com.au 4 READINGS MONTHLY SEPTEMBER 2017 September Events BRAM PRESSER IN GRIEF: MARK 19 CONVERSATION 26 BAKER, MELANIE RICHARD CORNISH A #LOVEOZYA WITH LEAH JOOSTEN & 6 IN CONVERSATION 14 TRAIN TRIP KAMINSKY HANNAH ROBERT The Book of Dirt reimagines the lives of Jakub Join us for a discussion about the WITH DANI VALENT Begin, End, Begin contributors – including Rand, a rabbi’s son tasked with curating importance of sharing grief and why final Danielle Binks, Ellie Marney, Lili Wilkinson, Much-loved, award-winning food writer and Eichmann’s infamous Museum of the Extinct hours can define the future. Mark Baker’s Melissa Keil and Amie Kaufman – will be commentator, and author of the humorous Race, and Františka Roubíckova, a converted compelling memoir, Thirty Days: A Journey taking part in a book club discussion on a train! ‘Brain Food’ weekly column in The Age’s Jew who would go on to establish a smuggling to the End of Love, reflects on the life and Hear these much-loved YA authors discuss the Good Food section, Richard Cornish will be network that would stretch as far as Auschwitz. recent death of his wife, Kerryn. Hannah #LoveOzYA movement, writing short stories in conversation with Dani Valent. Richard’s Presser began writing the novel after seeing Robert’s Baby Lost tells the story of a car and just how swell Aussie youth-lit is. Hosted book Brain Food collects his best columns an article in the local community paper that accident that resulted in the loss of her by the incredible Books on the Rail.