FREE NOVEMBER 2010 Readings Monthly Geordie Williamson on Lloyd Jones • Toni Jordan • Shaun Micallef 10 AGE P EE N) S RIO DS (O AR H IC TH R EI BY K LIFE COVER IMAGE FROM Keith Richards shares his Life p 10 November book, CD & DVD new releases. More new releases inside. MEMOIR FICTION FICTION ART&DESIGN YOUNG ADULT DVD POP CD CLASSICAL $49.95 $39.95 $32.95 $32.95 $39.95 $16.99 $79.99 $19.95 $19.95 >> p10 >> p4 >> p5 >> p12 >> p14 >> p16 >> p17 >> p19 November event highlights : Pip Lincolne, Cate Kennedy, Toni Jordan Stephanie Dowrick, Michael Grant, Karen Martini. More events inside. All shops open 7 days, except State Library shop, which is open Monday - Friday. 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Bob & Malcolm Sedergreen, Open Garden Wednesday 10 November, 11am * DUNEIRA Jazz Explore Duneira’s famous heritage Tickets $20 full / $15 conc ARTS & CULTURE • HEALTH • GARDENS An afternoon of spontaneous invention garden and see the fabulous Dutch elm- * bus from Southern Cross available featuring featuring original compositions, lined driveway with the short, seasonal jazz standards and a sprinkling of well bluebell display. known evergreens from local jazz legends, Sunday 31 October, 10am–4pm BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL Bob and Mal Sedergreen. Sunday 7 November, 10am–4pm Ph: 5426 1490 Saturday 20 November, 2.30 pm Tickets $10 full / $5 conc / children free Tickets $35 full / $25 conc www.duneira.com.au 2 Readings Monthly November 2010 From the Editor Greetings from a jet-lagged editor this month, ThisREADINGS WORKING Month’stion award of the News night – the Vance Palmer AAWP CONFERENCE in the midst of re-acclimatising to grey ART PROJECT Prize for Fiction worth $30,000 for his Miles The fifteenth annual conference of the Melbourne after a balmy week in Bali at the We’re proud to announce a new range of Franklin Award-winning crime novel Truth Australian Association of Writing Programs Ubud Readers and Writers Festival (which, limited-edition calico Readings bags, designed (Text, PB, $23.95). Brenda Walker won the will be held at RMIT from Thursday 25 I’m proud to say, Readings is a Silver Sponsor by some of Australia’s top illustrators and same amount of prize money by taking out November. Victorian Premier’s Award win- of). If you like bookish fun in the sun, great designers as part of our new Working Art the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction with ner Professor Brenda Walker will deliver food, a laid-back atmosphere, and the com- Project that will showcase local artists, poets Reading by Moonlight: How Books Saved a the keynote address. International speakers pany of world-class writers, put next year’s fes- and writers. Twice a year Readings will com- Life (Hamish Hamilton, HB, $29.95). include Dr Andrew Cowan from the Uni- tival date in your diary: 5 to 9 October 2011. mission local artists to design a Readings Also announced at the awards evening was versity of East Anglia’s prestigious writing that each of the three authors shortlisted for It’s a unique festival in so many ways – calico bag and we will only produce 1000 program and Chris Gribble, Director of of each bag. This month, our first two bags the prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by Norwich Writers’ Centre in the UK. The including many cross-cultural events, some an Emerging Victorian Writer would receive featuring Indonesian writers in conversation have been released! One of the bags features three-day conference will offer significant a gorgeous illustration of a one-eyed monster a three-month writing fellowship which insights into the teaching of creative writ- with Western writers, with the assistance of a comprises a workspace at the Wheeler Cen- (very hard-working) translator. One event I reading on a hill by award-winning local artist ing and the role of literature within writing Shaun Tan, author and illustrator of classics tre and $5000 from the Readings Founda- workshops. Readings will be at the confer- was particularly impressed with was the rare tion. The writers for the inaugural fellowship and laudable combination of a well-known like The Arrivaland Sketches from a Nameless ence selling books. For full program details Land (Lothian, Slipcase, Normally $89.95, are Michelle Aung Thin, Peggy Frew and head to http://australianliterarycompen- Palestinian writer, Suad Amiry (Sharon and Andrew Nette. my Mother-in-law, Granta, PB, $24.95) with Our special price $79.95). The other bag is dium.com/aawp_prog.html a popular Israeli writer, Etgar Keret (The by renowned graphic novelist and artist Nicki Here’s the full list of winners from the night: Girl on the Fridge, Henry Holt, PB, $18.95), Greenberg, featuring a striking scene from DECEMBER/JANUARY her new graphic novel, Hamlet (A&U, HB, The winner of the Vance Palmer Prize READINGS MONTHLY who has a bit of a cult following here as a for Fiction ($30,000) was Truth (Text, Normally $49.99, Our special price $39.95). The final edition of Readings Monthly master of the witty, sometimes biting, short PB, $23.95) by Peter Temple; the Nettie These limited-edition collector’s items are for 2010 will be inserted into the Age on story. And it was chaired by Australia’s own Palmer Prize for Non-fiction ($30,000) was available for $5 each at all Readings shops and Tuesday 7 December. Therefore, we will Antony Loewenstein (My Israel Question, Reading by Moonlight (Hamish Hamilton, online at www.readings.com.au. only be mailing out to regional and inter- MUP, PB, $24.95), a secular Jewish writer HB, $29.95) by Brenda Walker; the Young state subscribers by Friday 10 December. highly critical of Israel. What a combination! Adult Fiction Prize ($15,000) was Raw Blue 2010 NOBEL PRIZE Melbourne readers can pick up their copy Official festival blogger Mahler’s Son (actu- (Penguin, PB, $19.95) by Kirsty Eagar; and IN LITERATURE in one of our six shops or in the Age on ally Antony’s dad, there in his own capacity the CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry ($15,000) was Tuesday 7 December. Our first edition of as a blogger) wrote of the session, ‘Both au- Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has been Possession (Five Islands Press, PB, $19.95) by Readings Monthly for the new year will be thors didn’t differ on all that much about the awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Anna Kerdijk Nicholson. issues between the presently warring parties.’ Vargas Llosa is one of the South American out in February 2011. writers who played a large role in the Latin The winner of the Louis Esson Prize for Christos Tsiolkas touched on the debate American literary boom of the 1960s and Drama ($15,000) was And No More Shall We READINGS MOVES AT currently raging about the kinds of contem- 1970s, along with Gabriel García Márquez, Part by Tom Holloway; the Alfred Deakin THE STATE LIBRARY porary novels that are being written, and the Julio Cortázar and Carlos Fuentes. Vargas Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate In mid November, Readings is moving into prevalence of beautifully written but unen- Llosa’s major works include The Green House ($15,000) was ‘Seeing Truganini’ by David a larger retail space at the State Library of gaging fiction. He talked about wanting to (1965, Harper Perennial, PB, $21.95), Hansen, Australian Book Review; the Prize Victoria. The new shop will be located in find ways to ‘make the realist novel exciting Conversation in the Cathedral (1969, Harper for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Palmer Hall, which is between the library again’ and said the way to do it was ‘not to Perennial, PB, $21.95), The War Of The End Emerging Victorian Writer ($15,000) was foyer and the Mr Tulk cafe. Our new shop spend pages describing a glass of water’, but Of The World (1981, Picador, PB, $23.95) House of Sticks by Peggy Frew; the John Cur- will have a carefully selected range of books, to ‘engage with the way people live, the way and The Feast of the Goat (2000, Faber, PB, tin Prize for Journalism ($15,000) was ‘Who gifts and stationary. It will also stock a people dream, the way people love’. He said $14.99). His most recent novel, The Bad Girl Killed Mr Ward?’ by Janine Cohen and Liz complete range of State Library publications. he’s now reading Patrick White for the first (Henry Holt & Company, HB, Normally Jackson, Four Corners, ABC Television; the Shop manager, Tom Hoskins cut his teeth time, and is realising that ‘there have been $42.95, Our special price $17.95), was Prize for First Book of History ($15,000) running this year's Melbourne Writers' Australian writers in the world for a long published in 2006. was Becoming African Americans: Black Festival shop. Trading hours will be 10am- time trying to make sense of it.’ Public Life in Harlem, 1919–1939 (Harvard 5pm Monday to Saturday. We are all very 2010 MAN BOOKER PRIZE University Press, HB, $65.95) by Clare Cor- excited about this new space which will Most awe-inspiring: British journalist and bould; and the Prize for Indigenous Writing Into Awarded each year for an enable us to showcase a much greater range.