Announcing the Readings Children's Book Prize Shortlist 2020
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FREE MARCH 2020 Announcing the Readings Children’s Book Prize Shortlist 2020 page 16 New fiction from Anna Goldsworthy, Sebastian Barry, Anne Enright, Hilary Mantel & Graham Swift from page 6 BOOKS MUSIC FILM EVENTS TRACY MCNEIL & THE GOODLIFE page 22 PARASITE JENNY DEEPA THOMAS JACKIE page 21 OFFILL ANAPPARA PIKETTY FRENCH page 8 page 8 page 14 page 18 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 285-321 RUSSELL ST 8664 7540 | SEE SHOP OPENING HOURS, BROWSE AND BUY ONLINE AT READINGS.COM.AU NEWS March 2020 READINGS MONTHLY 3 March Mark’s Dear News Say Reader The Readings Children’s Book Prize Shortlist One of the booksellers at Vivian Pham is one of We’re delighted to announce the shortlist for Readings Kids suggested in those incredibly talented The Readings Children’s Book Prize 2020. The 3 for 2 Classics early January that we do and bright young people shortlisted titles are: The Girl, the Cat and the Throughout March, we have a something to support the whose list of achievements Navigator by Matilda Woods (illustrations by special offer on a select range of bushfire victims. We at an early age will make Anuska Allepuz); Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai; award-winning and popular classic decided to put the money we raised from gift you seriously wonder what you have been by Helen Wombat, Mudlark and Other Stories titles from Penguin Random House. wrapping in January towards bushfire relief. doing with your life. Case in point: Pham’s Milroy; The Dog Runner by Bren MacDibble; Buy two books in the Penguin We also decided that Readings would match debut novel was signed by Penguin Random The Secrets of Magnolia Moon by Edwina Black Classics and Coralie Bickford the amount collected. In a normal January House two years ago when she was still at Wyatt (illustrations by Katherine Quinn); and Smith Clothbound Classics range, we collect about $1000. We were thrilled that high school. Reading the final product, The Sherlock Bones & the Natural History Mystery and choose a third book in the in response to our call the amount raised this Coconut Children, a story set in the late 1990s by Renée Treml. This year’s guest judge, range (of equal or lesser value) January was $8,605. With Readings’ in the Vietnamese diaspora living in Nova Weetman, is a versatile writer of young for free! This offer is exclusively contribution the total to be donated is $17,210, Sydney’s Cabramatta, it’s easy to see why adult, middle grade and junior fiction, and an available in all Readings shops until award-winning screenwriter. Weetman will 31 March on stickered, in-stock so we’ve just made two equal donations – one people are so excited about this bold new help select the winner from this shortlist, to items only, while stocks last. This to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal and one to voice. Our reviewer calls Pham ‘a writer of be announced in the May edition of Readings offer is not available online. Zoos Victoria’s Bushfire Emergency Wildlife formidable skill – her words flow like poetry’. Monthly. Find out more on page 16. Fund. Our heartfelt thanks go out to everyone So please, take note of this author as she who supported this initiative. begins her luminous career: she has written At the end of each year we tally up our our Fiction Book of the Month. Australian Stella Prize Longlist bestsellers for the previous year. Seeing it writing is so strong this month, with new The Stella Prize longlist for 2020 has been Board book subscription so starkly brings a few surprises. In our top works of fiction from Liam Pieper, Felicity announced. This $50,000 prize is awarded for 100 books, 49 were by Australian authors or Volk, and Margaret Bearman, and debut the best work of literature, fiction or non-fiction, The Readings Board Book published in 2019 by an Australian woman. Subscription is the perfect originated in Australia, 49 were by women, novels from Madeleine Watts, Anna The twelve longlisted books are: Lucky Ticket welcome-to-the-world gift for new 12 were by Indigenous Australians, 2 were Goldsworthy, Sophie Hardcastle, and by Joey Bui, Songspirals by Gay’wu Group babies – an essential board book in by Readings staff, 45 were nonfiction, 13 Catherine Noske, plus Dervla McTiernan’s of Women, The House of Youssef by Yumna the post, every month, and delivered were children’s books, 39 fiction, and 3 were third crime novel, The Good Turn. Kassab, See What You Made Me Do by Jess straight to your lucky recipient. cookbooks. What was most surprising was In international fiction, you’ll find new Choose from two options: a six- Hill, Diving into Glass by Caro Llewellyn, When that our bestselling book was Bruce Pascoe’s work from a bunch of authors you know month subscription ($140) or an One Person Dies the Whole World is Over by Dark Emu, which was originally published well – Anne Enright, Louise Erdrich, Colum eleven-month subscription ($280). Mandy Ord, There Was Still Love by Favel in 2014. It also sold 61% more copies than McCann, Graham Swift, Sebastian Barry, Parrett, Here Until August by Josephine Rowe, Each classic board book has been our number 2 bestseller, Trent Dalton’s novel Aravind Adiga. I am utterly obsessed with This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki selected by our expert children’s Boy Swallows Universe. Jenny Offill’s Weather, already one of my Wakefield, The Yield by Tara June Winch, booksellers, and then lovingly gift books of the year: far out, it’s good. I was The Weekend by Charlotte Wood, and Paper wrapped and posted out to the We’ve all noticed the shrinking review Emperors by Sally Young. The shortlist will nominated address. The subscription pages in our newspapers as advertising thoroughly won over by the uneasy and be announced on Friday 6 March and the is available for purchase exclusively declines. The Copyright Agency, in unhappy female protagonists of Marina winner will be announced on Wednesday 8 from the Readings online store: partnership with the Judith Neilson Institute Popkey’s Topics of Conversation, Cho Nam- April. For more information about the Prize and readings.com.au/the-readings-kids- for Journalism and Ideas, is trying to address Joo’s Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Amina Cain’s book-subscription this year’s longlisted books (including the full this trend with a grant of $150,000 to support Indelicacy, and Emma Jane Unsworth’s judges’ report) visit thestellaprize.com.au the publication of more arts reviews and Adults, while Deepa Anappara’s Djinn criticism in The Australian, The Sydney Patrol on the Purple Line is so good it broke Morning Herald, The Age, The Brisbane our reviewer’s recent reading stalemate. Times and WA Today. The $150,000 granted On 5 March, the international embargo on to the media companies will be in addition to Hilary Mantel’s long-anticipated novel, The the existing review spending by News Corp Mirror and the Light, will be lifted, to much and Nine on arts and review coverage. It will excitement and fanfare. Wolf Hall and Bring be interesting see the impact. up the Bodies, the first two parts of this Tudor The Wheeler Centre turns 10 this year. The trilogy, each won that year’s Booker Prize, centre was set up by the Bracks government and I can’t wait to see if she will repeat that as part of its commitment to Melbourne achievement for an unprecedented third time. becoming a UNESCO City of Literature. It Our Nonfiction Book of the Month is received enthusiastic bipartisan support and Ellena Savage’s Blueberries, a work that our became an instant success both in the quality reviewer says, ‘defies categorisation but is of its programming and its warm welcome by fervently experiential, candid, and original’: Melburnians. Since opening its doors in 2010, thank goodness there are publishers who the Wheeler Centre has hosted more than aren’t afraid to publish experimental and 2,400 events and 4,200 speakers. More than creative work like this, and a readership 380,000 people have attended their events, hungry for challenging reading. Our predominantly in Melbourne, but also across reviewers also recommend the new work Victoria. Seventy per cent of those events by acclaimed historian Cassandra Pybus, have been free. It’s also given many writers Truganini; Donna Ward’s honest and their big break through their writer support feminist account of living an unattached programs, the Hot Desk Fellowships and the life, She I Dare Not Name; and a new take on READINGS MONTHLY Free, independent MUSIC CURATOR Dave Clarke Next Chapter scheme. feminist history, Difficult Women. Thomas monthly newspaper published by Readings Books, CLASSICAL MUSIC CURATOR Phil Richards Music & Film At its inception, the government asked Piketty’s Capital and Ideology will be in DVDS CURATOR Lou Fulco stores in the second half of March. 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