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FREE APRIL 2021 20% sale at our St Kilda shop page 3 New books from Haruki Murakami, Stan Grant, Emily Maguire, Kate Ellis, Rachel Kushner and more! BOOKS MUSIC FILM EVENTS CHRISTINA ÅSTRAN MARC MARTIN page 22 page 18 HARUKI LECH BLAINE MONICA DUX KATE ELLIS MURAKAMI page 12 page 12 page 13 page 6 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 %% 2020OFFOFF selectedselected cookbookscookbooks inin shopsshops andand onlineonline PurchasePurchase in-storein-store forfor youryour chancechance toto winwin aa cookbookcookbook library.library. See Sales & Promotions column for details. NEWS April 2021 READINGS MONTHLY 3 April Sales & News Promotions The Stella Prize 2021 shortlist 20% off all books at Readings The Stella Prize shortlist for 2021 has been St Kilda announced, celebrating Australian women’s We’re offering 20% off all books at contribution to literature. The six books on our St Kilda shop from Monday 19 to the 2021 Stella Prize shortlist are: Fathoms Sunday 25 April. This special 20% by Rebecca Giggs, Revenge by S.L. Lim, off sale is available in-store only at The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean Readings St Kilda, and is not available McKay, Witness by Louise Milligan, Stone online, or at any other Readings Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe and shop. The discount applies to the The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld. The prize recommended retail price, and is not awards $50,000, and both fiction and valid with any other offers or discounts. nonfiction books are eligible for entry. The 2021 Stella Prize will be awarded on Thursday 22 April. Buy all six books on the 20% off selected cookbooks Stella Prize 2021 shortlist to receive $45 off If you read one thing on this page, in-store and online. Not valid with any other make it this. For all the beginner cooks, offer. While stocks last. devoted foodies and aspirational READINGS MOTNHLY CLASSICAL MUSIC CURATOR masterchefs out there, we have two Free, independent monthly newspaper Phil Richards exciting offers on a range of essential published by Readings Books, Music & Film The Women’s Prize for Fiction cookbooks. Throughout April, take EVENTS & PROGRAMMING 2021 longlist 20% off selected cookbooks and go SUBSCRIBE Chris Gordon The longlist for the Women’s Prize for in the draw to win a cookbook library! You can subscribe to Readings Monthly Fiction has been announced. The 16 books There’s something for everyone, with and our e-news by visiting our website: ADVERTISING on the longlist are: Because of You by Dawn instant classics from Ottolenghi, Natalie French, Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi, Consent readings.com.au/sign-up Lucie Dess Paull, Hetty McKinnon and many more. by Annabel Lyon, Detransition, Baby by This offer is available until 30 April on [email protected] Torrey Peters, Exciting Times by Naoise select in-stock, full-priced items, online DELIVERY CHARGES FOR Dolan, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps (use the code 20COOKBOOKS) and ONLINE, MAIL-ORDER & OVER- CARTOON THE-PHONE PURCHASES Her House by Cherie Jones, Luster by Raven in all Readings shops. Buy any of the Oslo Davis Leilani, No One Is Talking About This by selected cookbooks in store and go $6.50 flat rate to anywhere in Australia for Patricia Lockwood, Nothing but Blue Sky by into the draw to win a cookbook library: orders under $120. Free shipping for orders FRONT COVER Kathleen MacMahon, Piranesi by Susanna 10 more books of your choice from the $120 and over. The April Readings Monthly cover Clarke, Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers, selected titles. features an image of our St Kilda shop. Summer by Ali Smith, The Golden Rule EDITOR © Chris Middleton Photography by Amanda Craig, The Vanishing Half by Jackie Tang Brit Bennett, Transcendent Kingdom by Buy two Vintage Classics and Yaa Gyasi and Unsettled Ground by Claire receive a FREE vintage tea towel [email protected] PRICES AND AVAILABILITY Fuller. The Women’s Prize awards £30,000 From 15 to 30 April, buy two Vintage Please note that all prices and release EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS to a work of fiction written in English by a Classics and receive a gorgeous vintage dates in Readings Monthly are correct woman of any nationality. The winner will be Judi Mitchell & Lucie Dess tea towel. Offer available in-store only at time of publication, however prices announced on Wednesday 7 July. until stock runs out, and not available and release dates may change without PROOFREADER online. Valid on in-stock items only. notice. Special price offers apply only for Joanna Di Mattia the month in which they are featured in Clunes Booktown Festival Save on the Stella Prize 2021 Readings Monthly. The annual Clunes Booktown Festival is back KIDS & YA CURATORS in 2021 and will run over three weekends in shortlist bundle Angela Crocombe & Dani Solomon May. Each event is ticketed across the three Buy all six books in the Stella Prize Readings donates 10% of its profits each weekends, with tickets starting at $15. To see shortlist to receive $45 off in-store and MUSIC & DVD CURATOR year to the Readings Foundation: the program and for more information, visit: online. Not valid with any other offer. Dave Clarke readings.com.au/the-readings-foundation clunesbooktown.com.au While stocks last. Melbourne’s favourite independent cinema! SUPERNOVA Opens April 15 (M) THE DISSIDENT Opens April 22 (CTC) NT LIVE: A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Opens May 1 (E) A heart-rending modern love story about a couple struggling From Academy-Award winning filmmaker, Bryan Fogel, comes Filmed live onstage from London’s West End, Arthur Miller’s with a diagnosis of early-onset dementia, Sam (Colin Firth, A the explosive story of the murder that shocked the world. When dark and passionate play A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE returns to Single Man) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci, The Children Act) have Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears in the Nova screen. In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone spent twenty years together, and are as passionately in love as Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world piece (Mark Strong, The Imitation Game) welcomes his Sicilian cousins they have ever been. Featuring stunning cinematography, together the clues to his murder and expose a global cover up. to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his SUPERNOVA is an intimate drama about love and mortality with Chillingly powerful and heartbreakingly candid, THE DISSIDENT beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price. Ivo beautifully tender performances delivered by Firth and Tucci. is an intimate portrait of a man who sacrificed everything for Van Hove (All About Eve) directs this ‘magnetic, electrifying, freedom of speech. astonishingly bold’ production (Evening Standard). - The Guardian "Riveting" - Variety - The Times "A masterfully directed ode to the power of love." - Deadline "Emotionally devastating. Unforgettable” - Independent Visit our website for film information and tickets, plus Australia's largest selection of quality cinema and special events. 4 READINGS MONTHLY April 2021 COLUMNS Mark’s Say with Mark Rubbo Lygon Street in Carlton and Acland Street in St Kilda were vibrant local shopping strips and wonderful areas to hang out. Sadly, they’ve lost some of their vitality. Both derived much of their energy from the wave of immigrants who came to Australia after the Second World War. In Lygon Street, Italian immigrants opened small businesses and THE 2021 brought Italian food culture, and especially the espresso, to Melbourne and Australia. They attracted the university and arts communities and made fertile ground for places STELLA PRIZE such as Readings, La Mama Theatre, the Poppy Shop and Professor Longhair’s Music Shop to grow. Iconic businesses with an Italian heritage such as Donati’s, King & Godfree, SHORTLIST Jimmy Watson’s, Bottega Tasca and Tiamo still continue and have been joined by D.O.C. CELEBRATING AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S WRITING In St Kilda, the Jewish refugees escaping from the horror of the Holocaust tried to recreate a bit of the society they had lost in the safety of the wide tree-lined walkway of Acland Street, opening cafés and delicatessens where they could gather and meet and endlessly argue and shop. The most famous was Café Scheherazade that was immortalised in Arnold Zable’s beautiful book of the same name. The delicious food and the European exoticness also attracted the Australian community to Acland Street, as well as the thrills of Luna Park. It was no accident that the Melbourne Film Festival made its home in St Kilda’s grand Palais Theatre in the 1960s and 1970s, and its first director, Erwin Rado, was a Hungarian of Jewish descent. In 1960, Gerhard Sawatzky, another European, opened Cosmos Bookshop which later became Readings St Kilda. But today, if you walk down Acland Street, there are only a few signs left of its heritage. Monarch Cakes survives as does the Europa Cake Shop. Readings (formerly Cosmos) is still there, as is the wonderful Cicciolina a few doors up. What is notable about these streets now is the number of vacant shops; just a few weeks ago the café Trotters closed after almost 40 years in Lygon Street. Some of the shops have been vacant for two or three years. I often wonder why these great streets are going through such a rough patch now.