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NEW RELEASE CRIME FROM FREMANTLE PRESS NEW RELEASE CRIME FROM FREMANTLE PRESS NEW RELEASE CRIME FROM FREMANTLE PRESS NEW RELEASE NEWS November 2020 READINGS MONTHLY 3 holders & gift voucher sales, is only valid in online events program. Upcoming highlights Readings shops until 30 November 2020, include Jenny Hocking discussing The Gifts and games at Readings November and is not available online. Palace Letters on Wednesday 25 November, From fun socks to adorable mugs, from Laura Tingle talking about her new Quarterly jigsaw puzzles to colour-changing Essay on Sunday 29 November, Bruce umbrellas, you’ll find a range of quirky, News 20% off calendars and diaries Pascoe & Vicky Shukuroglou in conversation funny, delightful and one-of-a-kind gifts, For the month of November, we are about their guidebook Loving Country on games and stocking stuffers in our shops. offering 20% off 2021 diaries and Thursday 10 December, and many more! For Browse the full range in-store, or find a calendars. Come in-store to shop our details on how to watch, and to see what’s select range online at readings.com.au/ Readings shops are open again! full range, or browse a select range on offer across our whole events program, collection/games-and-puzzles Welcome back Melbourne, we’ve missed online on our Calendars and Diaries visit readings.com.au/events you! Our Carlton, Kids, Hawthorn, Malvern, page in this collection: readings.com.au/ Doncaster, and St Kilda shops are all open collection/2021-diaries-and-calendars Best Books and Music of 2020 to the public again, and our booksellers Bargains Our staff have voted on the best books and can’t wait to see you in-store. Thank you You might notice something missing from music of the year, and you’ll find the results so much for all of your support throughout Readings hampers your Readings Monthly this month. Due to in a range of lists throughout this issue of the the lockdown. 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ONLINE PURCHASES Dave Clarke $6.50 flat rate to anywhere in Australia for Readings donates 10% of its profits each CLASSICAL MUSIC CURATOR orders under $120. Free shipping for orders year to the Readings Foundation: Phil Richards $120 and over. readings.com.au/the-readings-foundation DVDS CURATOR Lou Fulco It starts with science. Visit the CSIRO Publishing website for more quality science books, journals and magazines www.publish.csiro.au 4 READINGS MONTHLY November 2020 COLUMNS Mark’s Dear Say Reader with Mark Rubbo with Alison Huber Well, Readings and most Each year, our staff picks, at readings.com.au/news. other Victorian members vote on their This month’s newsletter should really bookshops are open again favourite books of the be read in conjunction with the annual and it has been wonderful year, and each year at Summer Reading Guide; so many of the to see real people this time, I panic because season’s big releases appear there, but a discovering books in our shops. Sadly, our I have, yet again, failed to keep a reading few are reviewed here as well, including shop in the State Library is yet to open and diary to remind me of all the books I’ve the new novels by Sofie Laguna and may not reopen before Christmas as the ploughed through in the year – and given Ceridwen Dovey. We also recommend library has to be very cautious in managing this year’s events, one can be forgiven new international fiction from Raven the risk of COVID. from forgetting what was read when, how, Leilani, Don DeLillo, Rumaan Alam, However, in good news, the winner or where (or, for that matter, for Bryan Washington, Nicole Krauss, Kikuko of The Readings Prize for New Australian abandoning books halfway through for no Tsumura, and Linn Ullmann. Look out, Fiction this year is the remarkable good reason). Lots of people have too, for the collected stories of Shirley collection of short stories Smart Ovens for reported reading more than ever during Hazzard, a new collection of poetry Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan.