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FREE NOVEMBER 2015 BOOKS MUSIC FILM EVENTS THE READINGS PRIZE FOR NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION Introducing the 2015 winner page 6 NEW IN NOVEMBER ISOBELLE CARRIE KERRY UTOPIA RYAN CARMODY BROWNSTEIN O’BRIEN SEASON 2 ADAMS $32.99 $32.99 $49.95 $29.95 $19.95 page 11 page 13 $39.95 page 21 page 22 page 13 READINGS MONTHLY NOVEMBER 2015 3 News READINGS SUBSCRIBER SHOPPING DAY Our annual Readings Subscriber Shopping Day is on Thursday 19 November! We’re offering all Readings Monthly and Readings e-news subscribers 20% off full-priced books, CDs, vinyl, stationery and calendars, and 10% off full-priced DVDs. If you subscribe to the Readings Monthly, simply bring this month’s cover sheet (with your name on it) into any Readings shop to redeem this offer. Otherwise, sign up to our e-news at readings.com.au before Friday 13 November and we’ll send you an email that you can bring into shops on Thursday 19 November. Please note, this discount does not include cards and magazines, is only available for items in stock (not valid for special orders or lay-bys) and is not available online. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE Handpicked by our passionate music team, Mother’s Day crossword competition, WORLD BY STEPHANIE BISHOP our vinyl collection includes old favourites Shirley Bowman won dinner for four at WINS THE READINGS PRIZE FOR alongside terrific new releases. Come and the Meatball & Wine Bar, Paul Watson NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION 2015 chat with our specialists in person and won two festival weekend passes to the We’re delighted to announce that complete your own collection. The sale Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues, Stephanie Bishop has been named this runs from Friday 30 October to Tuesday 3 and Marlene Pietsch won a year’s coffee year’s winner of The Readings Prize November at Readings Carlton, St Kilda, subscription thanks to Market Lane for New Australian Fiction. Our judges Hawthorn and State Library of Victoria Coffee for our Father’s Day crossword described her second novel, The Other shops. The offer only applies to vinyl competition. We also celebrated three Side of the World (Hachette), as ‘elegant, currently in stock, and is not available winners for our Rivertime colouring-in profound and unforgettable’. Stephanie online. competition: Milla Bishop (age category Bishop will receive prize money of $4000. 5-7 years), Zara Chessell (8-10 years) and Caspa Wallis-Carnie (11-12 years). Thanks The Other Side of the World is available MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER from all Readings shops and online for a to all who submitted entries – best of luck This year’s Man Booker Prize winner is special price of $26.99 (was $29.99). For for our competitions next year! Readings Monthly Marlon James for his novel A Brief History more information see page 6. Free independent monthly newspaper of Seven Killings. Set across three decades, published by Readings Books, Music & Film Established in 2014, The Readings Prize the novel uses the true story of the attempt for New Australian Fiction (originally on the life of reggae star Marley to explore Editor known as the Readings New Australian the turbulent world of Jamaican gangs Elke Power Writing Award) supports published and politics. Michael Wood, the chair of [email protected] Australian authors of fiction and judges, said the decision to name James recognises exciting and exceptional new the winner was unanimous, and that the Editorial Assistant contributions to local literature. The work was ‘extraordinary … very exciting, Alan Vaarwerk award aims to increase the commercial very violent’. He added that people [email protected] success of first or second books by should not be daunted or put off by the Australian authors. The inaugural winner subject matter: ‘It is not an easy read, it Advertising of The Readings Prize was Ceridwen is a big book with some tough stuff and Stella Charls Dovey, whose short-story collection, Only a lot of swearing but it is not a difficult [email protected] the Animals, went on to become one of our (03) 9341 7739 book to approach.’ The Man Booker Prize bestselling books for 2014. for Fiction is a £50,000 literary prize Graphic Design awarded each year for the best original Cat Matteson SUMMER READING GUIDE & novel, written in the English language, and [email protected] READINGS’ BEST OF 2015 published in the UK. A paperback edition of Williams’ book is available now in all This year, instead of publishing a Front Cover Readings shops and online at readings. December–January edition of the Readings Monthly cover design by Cat com.au for only $22.99. Readings Monthly, we’re putting together Matteson using elements from the cover of a comprehensive guide to the best books, Stephanie Bishops’ second novel The Other music and film of 2015, as voted by all Side of the World, which won The Readings READINGS MONTHLY 2015 Readings staff. This eight-page guide Prize for New Australian Fiction 2015. The COMPETITION WINNERS will be available in all Readings shops Other Side of the World cover images courtesy Throughout 2015, we’ve been heartened throughout December and January, and of Hachette, design by Christabella Designs by the huge response to a range of will be mailed to all Readings Monthly and photographs courtesy of Trevillion. competitions we’ve run through the subscribers in the first week of December Readings Monthly. We’ve loved seeing along with the Summer Reading Guide. Cartoon all your completed crosswords and We hope you enjoy our recommendations! Oslo Davis colouring in, and reading your responses! oslodavis.com Congratulations to our winners: Bill Walsh 20% OFF VINYL SALE won a Pro-ject turntable valued at $599 Readings donates 10% of its profits each year to The Readings Foundation: Make the most of your Melbourne as part of our April vinyl sale, Stephanie readings.com.au/the-readings-foundation Cup weekend with 20% off all vinyl! Grayston won a Readings voucher for our 4 READINGS MONTHLY NOVEMBER 2015 November Events MAUREEN WORLD WRITINGS 12 O’SHAUGHNESSY 5 ANTHOLOGY ON LAKELAND Home Truths: An Anthology of Refugee and To launch her first novel, Lakeland, join Migrant Writing is a collection of stories, Maureen O’Shaughnessy for a conversation essays and poems written by a diverse with Helen Garner on the potential hazards group of writers from Africa and Asia. The of delving into family histories in the context anthology is filled with first-hand accounts of war. What sort of influence can the of what it means to endure often terrible horror of conflict and atrocity have on those wars and dislocations, or to be at odds with involved and their descendants? your own culture, and then find yourself Free, no booking required in Australia, full of hope – only to discover Thursday 12 November, 6.30pm nowhere is paradise. BOB BROWN ON Readings St Kilda Free, no booking required 10 GREEN NOMADS Thursday 5 November, 6.30pm FRANK Readings Carlton When former senator Bob Brown gave his home in Liffey, Tasmania to Bush Heritage 4 BONGIORNO IN Australia, he had no idea that it would be CONVERSATION NIKKI GREENBERG the start of a movement. Now, a number of WITH CLARE 8 ON THE beautiful places have become safe havens for WRIGHT NAUGHTIEST Australia’s wild places. In Green Nomads, Bob REINDEER AT THE takes us on a journey across Australia, visiting The Eighties brings to life the most Bush Heritage sites and sharing the beauty controversial decade in Australian history. ZOO and diversity they represent. Join Frank Bongiorno and author and Join us for more adventures of Ruby the Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events historian Clare Wright as they discuss the reindeer, as she returns with even more Tuesday 10 November, 6.30pm high-flying entrepreneurs booming and Christmas mischief. This time she’s landed at Readings St Kilda busting, torrid debates over land rights and the zoo. But is she behaving herself? She is not! immigration, the advent of AIDS, a harsh recession and the rise of the New Right. Free, no booking required ROBERT DREWE Sunday 8 November, 10.30am Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events Readings Hawthorn 11 ON MEMOIR Wednesday 4 November, 6.30pm WRITING MAGGIE BEER ON Readings Carlton ON HER SUMMER DAVID PEPPERELL Robert Drewe, Australian author of the 12 prize-winning memoirs The Shark Net, HARVEST 9 & COLIN TALBOT BRIAN Montebello and his new book, The Beach, COLLECTION ON THE SWINGING presents a lecture exploring the complexity 5 MCFARLANE ON Adored cook Maggie Beer will be joining us 60S of writing a memoir. He will discuss the for afternoon tea and to talk about her new TWENTY BRITISH literary, personal and public issues involved 100 Greatest Australian Singles of the 60s, summertime recipe book, Maggie Beer’s FILMS in writing within this increasingly popular by local legends David Pepperell and Colin Summer Harvest Collection. Maggie will be Twenty British Films: A Guided Tour is for and often misunderstood art form. Talbot, reflects on the golden years of the in conversation with Christine Gordon, our anyone who has loved British films. In 60s, when Australian rock‘n’roll singles Free, but please RSVP to resident foodie. Together they will discuss choosing twenty films – many of them classics were as good as those made anywhere in [email protected]. food, life and, of course, love. of their kind – as well as some less well- the world. Take a trip back to these classic Wednesday 11 November, 6pm known titles, Brian McFarlane communicates records of the 60s, to listen once again and Boyd Centre, 207 City Road, Southbank.