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FREE MAY 2019 Mother’s Day Gift Ideas page 11 Announcing the winner of the Readings Children’s Book Prize page 19 BOOKS MUSIC FILM EVENTS ALDOUS HUXLEY page 23 TRAPPED MELANIE MEGAN K. STAN GRANT CARLY NUGENT page 22 CHENG STACK page 15 page 19 page 7 page 15 CARLTON LYGON ST KIDS LYGON ST DONCASTER WESTFIELD DONCASTER, DONCASTER RD HAWTHORN GLENFERRIE RD MALVERN GLENFERRIE RD ST KILDA ACLAND ST STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA RUSSELL ST | SEE SHOP OPENING HOURS, BROWSE AND BUY ONLINE AT READINGS.COM.AU NEWS May 2019 READINGS MONTHLY fiction book, The Erratics, a ferocious, the recipient of this year’s Pixie O’Harris Islands by Marion Poschmann (Germany), sharp, darkly funny and wholly compelling Award, which recognises excellence and translated from German by Jen Calleja; May memoir of families, the pain they can dedicated service to Australian children’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead inflict and the legacy they leave. The literature. Kathy has spent over fifty years by Olga Tokarczuk (Poland), translated Stella Prize celebrates Australian women’s working with children’s books in libraries, from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones; The News contribution to literature, and oers prize bookshops and publishing, and she says Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vásquez money of $50,000. You can find out more ‘I’m pleased and honoured to receive (Colombia), translated from Spanish by about the Stella Prize and The Erratics at the Pixie O’Harris Award and do so on Anne McLean; and The Remainder by Alia thestellaprize.com.au. behalf of children’s specialist booksellers Trabucco Zerán (Chile), translated from Mother’s Day everywhere. We share a passion for Spanish by Sophie Hughes. The winners It’s Mother’s Day on Sunday 12 May. We’ve bringing children and stories together.’ will be announced on Tuesday 21 May. included a handy gift guide in this issue Pulitzer Prize winners Readings Kids manager Angela Crocombe of Readings Monthly to help you find the Richard Powers has been awarded the says ‘Kathy is an amazing woman and perfect bookish present. You’ll also find 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, amazing bookseller … The work she Clunes Booktown Festival plenty of ideas in our seven shops, and The Overstory. This book is a wondrous, does on the floor of the bookshop is so The annual Clunes Booktown Festival is online at readings.com.au. exhilarating novel about nine strangers valued by customers of varying ages and back, on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 May. brought together by an unfolding natural backgrounds’. Congratulations, Kathy! Headline authors this year include Jane catastrophe. To find the full list of prize Caro, Kon Karapanagiotidis, Alice Pung, Readings Foundation auction fundraiser winners and finalists visit: pulitzer.org/ Jaclyn Moriarty, Jock Serong and many more. Bid to win a one-on-one personal shopping prize-winners-by-year/2019. Man Booker International shortlist Festival-goers can attend exciting literary experience with your favourite author! The shortlist for the Man Booker events, discover the largest collection of Sponsored by Penguin Random House, International Prize has been announced. rare, out-of-print and collectable books in with all proceeds going to the Readings Teen Advisory Board signup Established in 2005, since 2016 this Australia, go inside heritage buildings, listen Foundation, this fundraiser will see us Applications for the Readings Teen prize is awarded annually for a single to live music, watch street performers, try auctioning o time with authors including Advisory Board are now open. 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See clunesbooktown.com.au shelves of Readings at the State Library by 500 words, in either Word or PDF format, French by Alison L. Strayer; The Pine for more information. their chosen author. For more information addressing the points above and including about this fundraiser and the Readings your name, age and contact details. Send it Foundation, see readings.com.au/the- to [email protected] by readings-foundation 5pm, Friday 21 June, 2019. For more details, please see readings.com.au/the-readings- teen-advisory-board Readings Children’s Book Prize winner We’re excited to announce Carly Nugent as the winner of the Readings Children’s Book Opera DVD sale Prize for her book The Peacock Detectives. To celebrate the 2019 opera and ballet Freya Howarth, the chair of judges, says: season, Readings is oering up to 40% o ‘The entire panel loved this tender portrayal a wide range of opera and ballet DVDs. of a family going through changes.’ Titles include operas from Wagner and Congratulations to Nugent, who has Mozart, ballets from Tchaikovsky and a host received $3000 in prize money. This book more. This oer is available at all Readings is perfectly suited to curious, thoughtful shops (except Readings Kids and Readings readers aged 9+. More information about State Library) and online until 31 May, while the Prize and The Peacock Detectives can stocks last. be found on page 19. Kathy Kozlowski wins Pixie O’Harris Stella Prize winner announced Award The Stella Prize for 2019 has been awarded We are delighted to announce Readings to Vicky Laveau-Harvie for her non- children’s bookseller Kathy Kozlowski is READINGS MONTHLY EDITOR PROGRAMMING & EVENTS PRICES AND AVAILABILITY Free, independent monthly newspaper Elke Power Christine Gordon Please note that all prices and release dates published by Readings Books, Music & Film [email protected] [email protected] in Readings Monthly are correct at time of publication, however prices and release SUBSCRIBE EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS ADVERTISING dates may change without notice. Special Subscribe to Readings Monthly and our Judi Mitchell Ellen Cregan price offers apply only for the month in e-news by visiting our website: [email protected] [email protected] which they are featured in the Readings readings.com.au/sign-up Monthly. 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