FREE MAY 2019 Mother’s Day Gift Ideas page 11 Announcing the winner of the Readings Children’s Book Prize page 19 BOOKS MUSIC FILM EVENTS ALDOUS HUXLEY page 23 TRAPPED MELANIE MEGAN K. STAN GRANT CARLY NUGENT page 22 CHENG STACK page 15 page 19 page 7 page 15 CARLTON LYGON ST KIDS LYGON ST DONCASTER WESTFIELD DONCASTER, DONCASTER RD HAWTHORN GLENFERRIE RD MALVERN GLENFERRIE RD ST KILDA ACLAND ST STATE LIBRARY VICTORIA RUSSELL ST | SEE SHOP OPENING HOURS, BROWSE AND BUY ONLINE AT READINGS.COM.AU NEWS May 2019 READINGS MONTHLY fiction book, The Erratics, a ferocious, the recipient of this year’s Pixie O’Harris Islands by Marion Poschmann (Germany), sharp, darkly funny and wholly compelling Award, which recognises excellence and translated from German by Jen Calleja; May memoir of families, the pain they can dedicated service to Australian children’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead inflict and the legacy they leave. The literature. Kathy has spent over fifty years by Olga Tokarczuk (Poland), translated Stella Prize celebrates Australian women’s working with children’s books in libraries, from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones; The News contribution to literature, and oers prize bookshops and publishing, and she says Shape of the Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vásquez money of $50,000. You can find out more ‘I’m pleased and honoured to receive (Colombia), translated from Spanish by about the Stella Prize and The Erratics at the Pixie O’Harris Award and do so on Anne McLean; and The Remainder by Alia thestellaprize.com.au. behalf of children’s specialist booksellers Trabucco Zerán (Chile), translated from Mother’s Day everywhere. We share a passion for Spanish by Sophie Hughes. The winners It’s Mother’s Day on Sunday 12 May. We’ve bringing children and stories together.’ will be announced on Tuesday 21 May. included a handy gift guide in this issue Pulitzer Prize winners Readings Kids manager Angela Crocombe of Readings Monthly to help you find the Richard Powers has been awarded the says ‘Kathy is an amazing woman and perfect bookish present. You’ll also find 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, amazing bookseller … The work she Clunes Booktown Festival plenty of ideas in our seven shops, and The Overstory. This book is a wondrous, does on the floor of the bookshop is so The annual Clunes Booktown Festival is online at readings.com.au. exhilarating novel about nine strangers valued by customers of varying ages and back, on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 May. brought together by an unfolding natural backgrounds’. Congratulations, Kathy! Headline authors this year include Jane catastrophe. 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