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CARLTON 309 Lygon St 9347 6633 HAWTHORN 701 Glenferrie Rd 9819 1917 MALVERN 185 Glenferrie Rd 9509 1952 ST KILDA 112 Acland St 9525 3852 READINGS AT THE STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA 328 Swanston St 8664 7540 READINGS AT THE BRAIN CENTRE 30 Royal Parade, Parkville 9347 1749 See shop opening hours, browse and buy online at www.readings.com.au 2 READINGS MONTHLY JUNE 2013 This month’s news COMMONWEALTH BOOK PRIZE NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS: 3 FOR 2 REGIONAL WINNERS Mark’s If you’re a lover of the classics, then you’ll be The regional winners of the 2013 Commonwealth glad to hear that we’re running our annual Naxos Say Book Prize have been announced. The winning AudioBooks sale again in June. Buy any two titles, by region, are Sterile Sky by E. Egya Naxos AudioBooks from our featured range and Sule (Africa), Island of a Thousand Mirrors receive a third (of equal or lesser value) free. From News and views from Readings’ by Nayomi Munaweera (Asia), The Death of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights to Arthur Miller’s Bees by Lisa O’Donnell (Canada and Europe), managing director, Mark Rubbo Death of a Salesman, we have hours of wonderful Disposable People by Ezekel Alan (Caribbean) stories to choose from. Offer available at our and The Last Thread by Michael Sala (Pacific). Carlton, Hawthorn and St Kilda shops. Last month, we mentioned some interesting new fiction coming out later this year and I’ve been The judging panel, which included our very alerted to two other major titles to look forward to. Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan has a new own Books Division manager Martin Shaw, novel in September, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, which borrows its title from the Japanese made their announcement in May, awarding poet Basho’s seventeenth century travel memoir. It’s partially set in a Japanese labour camp in 1943. each winning author prize money of £2500. See Chris Womersley, author of the acclaimed Bereft also has a new novel due in September, Cairo. more on the regional winners on page 6. It centres around the theft, and return, of Picasso’s Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria. Chris’s publisher, Scribe, will be publishing Cairo under their UK imprint. HAPPINESS & ITS CAUSES CONFERENCE Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom has always had an interest in featuring international books on Happiness & Its Causes is one of the world’s his lists (last year, for example, he acquired the National Book Award-winning Behind the Beautiful leading forums on the causes of a happy and Forevers by Katherine Boo). When a slot came up at the Faber Factory Plus, a sales and distribution meaningful life. Now in its eighth year, the service in the UK for independent publishers, Henry jumped at the chance, although not without some conference will be hosted in Melbourne for the MADMAN FESTIVAL AT HOME trepidation. Scribe plan to publish a small list overseas. This will consist of their Australian releases, first time on 19 and 20 June, and Readings is DVD SALE like Cairo, where appropriate, and they have also started acquiring rights to publish international titles thrilled to be the official bookseller. The conference in the UK, Europe and Australia. At the recent London Book Fair, Scribe picked up UK and Australian Together with Madman, we’re excited to will feature more than 35 amazing speakers, rights to some major US titles. They included New York Times bestseller, The Way of the Knife by Mark announce Festival at Home, a new project including the world’s foremost expert on the Mazzetti, which describes how the lines between the CIA and the American military have been blurred, that offers cinephiles the opportunity to curate science of life satisfaction Professor Ed Diener, and The Book of Woe by Gary Greenberg, a critical look at the psychiatrist’s bible, the Diagnostic and their own film festival. To participate, simply acclaimed psychologist and researcher in the Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). This comes out appropriately just after the release of choose any five titles from our hand-picked field of motivation Professor Carol Dweck, and His the latest edition, the DSM-5, which has been ten years in the making. The DSM-5 has already been selection of critically acclaimed DVDs, slide Holiness the Dalai Lama. For more information, creating waves with its reclassification of Asperger’s syndrome as an autistic disorder, and is sure to them into one of the specially designed box visit www.happinessanditscauses.com.au. cause further controversy. sets, and they are all yours to take home for just $59.95. Titles include Melancholia, Scribe are not the only Australian publisher to venture into international waters. Lonely Planet was the BLOOMSDAY IN The Trip, Animal Kingdom, In the Loop, Bill first successful organisation to become a truly international, Australian-based publisher. Trade publisher Cunningham New York and more. Offer MELBOURNE FESTIVAL Hardie Grant have also had a UK presence for some years and have recently come to an arrangement available at our Carlton, Hawthorn, St Kilda The Bloomsday in Melbourne festival will with US publisher Rizzoli to move into that market. Sandy Grant, one of the principals of Hardie Grant, and Malvern shops until the end of June. celebrate its 20th year at fortyfivedownstairs has extensive UK experience, having been CEO of Reed Publishing in the late 90s. Hardie Grant’s from 12 to 16 June. The festival pays tribute high quality illustrated books have found a niche in the UK. Scribe’s foray is different in that they will to James Joyce’s novel Ulysses and this year concentrate on serious non-fiction and some literary fiction. Perhaps some other publishers will follow – comprises of four events: a series of readings, Text, maybe, as their new shareholders, Tony and Maureen Wheeler, maintain a base in London? In any a dinner and a seminar, as well as a play case, I wish Scribe and our other Australian publishers well as they venture further abroad! directed by Wayne Pearn, The Seven Ages of Joyce, which dramatises Joyce’s tumultuous and free-spirited life while drawing on his often hilarious and always mercurial fiction. To book for the play, visit www.fortyfivedownstairs.com or phone (03) 9662 9966. For general information, visit www.bloomsdayinmelbourne.org.au or phone (03) 9898 2900. Readings Monthly is a free independent monthly newspaper published by Readings Books, Music & Film. Editorial enquiries: Jessica Au at [email protected] Advertising enquiries: Ingrid Josephine at [email protected] or call 03 9341 7739. Design by Sonja Meyer www.sonjameyer.com.au Thank you to Readings staff members and contributors for your reviews. 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WORLD MONIQUE JUSTIN 5 ENVIRONMENT 14 DIMattina 26 CLEMENS day Singer-songwriter and exquisite musical stylist Join us for the launch of Justin Clemens’s Join us at Readings Carlton on World Monique diMattina will perform from her brand Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy Environment Day. The Wilderness Society will new album, Nola’s Ark ($24.95), featuring an (Edinburgh University Press, PB, $44.99). announce the winner of the 2013 Environment all-star cast of musicians. Alain Badiou described psychoanalysis What was your favourite book as Award for Children’s Literature, which honours as an ‘antiphilosophy’ – a practice that a kid? Free, but please book on 9347 6633 or at books that promote caring and responsibility offers the strongest possible challenges to [email protected]. I adored Paddington Bear. From the moment for the environment. Previous winners include thought. Now, Justin Clemens examines I read about him sitting at the train station Alison Lester and Coral Tulloch, Jackie French psychoanalysis under this rubric, examining Friday 14 June, 6pm with ‘please look after this bear’ pinned and Sue deGennaro. the relationships of humans to drugs, Readings Carlton to his coat, I felt utterly protective of him. animalityNCH and sexuality. His penchant for marmalade sandwiches, Free, no booking required.