FREE FEBRUARY 2019 The most anticipated books of 2019 Our head book buyer Alison Huber on the books to look out for this year. page 6 BOOKS MUSIC FILM EVENTS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN page 22 WESTWOOD SONIA GRAEME JACQUELINE ANGIE page 21 ORCHARD SIMSION KENT THOMAS page 8 page 8 page 12 page 17 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 WWW.READINGS.COM.AU NEWS February 2019 READINGS MONTHLY 3 note, this is not a childminding service. We Doncaster. The first 2019 book clubs will run information about the Hot Desk fellowships, ask that parents stay with their children for for four months and membership will cost please see wheelercentre.com February the reading. $50. Sessions for 2019 commence in March. For more information about the Readings book clubs at Readings State Library or Celebrating Eighty Years of Puffin Books News The Readings Foundation grants other Readings shops, and instructions on In 2019, beloved children’s book publisher announced how to join, see readings.com.au/book- Puffin Books is celebrating its 80th The Readings Foundation has announced clubs Birthday. To celebrate, we have special $146,700 worth of grants to support commemorative Puffin book bags to give 3 for 2 Nonfiction favourites a range of projects and organisations away. Purchase two titles in a specially Throughout February, we’re offering a within Victoria in 2019. This year, the Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowships selected range of Puffin books to receive a special deal on a select range of award- grant committee has chosen to allocate In 2019, as in previous years, Readings is free book bag. This special offer is available winning and popular non-fiction titles. If funding to organisations that are delivering supporting The Wheeler Centre’s Hot Desk at all Readings shops except for Readings you purchase two books, you can choose strong literacy and education support to Fellowships. The Hot Desk Fellowships Carlton and Readings State Library Victoria a third book in the range (of equal or the most disadvantaged people in our offer twenty writers the space and time to while stocks last. Not available online. lesser value) for free! The range includes community. Readings donates 10% of its write throughout the year. Each recipient The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper; The Wife overall profit to The Readings Foundation will receive a $1000 stipend and workspace Drought by Annabel Crabb; The Bush by each year, and the generous donations in the Wheeler Centre over a 10-week Costa Book Awards Don Watson; Educated by Tara Westover; from Readings’ customers make a crucial period. This year there are three additional The 2018 Costa Book Awards have been Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari; Stasiland contribution. The successful grant fellowships for regional or interstate writers. announced. These awards honour some by Anna Funder; The Body Keeps the recipients for this year are: Aboriginal These three writers will be provided with a of the most outstanding books of the year Score by Bessell van der Kolk and many Literacy Foundation ($20,000); Ballarat five-week residency at the Norma Redpath written by authors based in the UK and more. This offer is exclusively available in Foundation ($19,700); Banksia Gardens Studio in Carlton. Managing Director Mark Ireland, across five different categories. The all Readings shops except Readings Kids Community Service ($20,000); Church of Rubbo says: ‘It’s been a great pleasure winners in each category are: The Seven until Thursday 28 February on stickered, All Nations ($20,000); Kids Under Cover to see the development of the Wheeler Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart in-stock items only, while stocks last. This ($5,000); Mallee Family Care ($10,000); Centre Hot Desks Fellowships and the Turton for first novel, Normal People by offer is not available online. Parkville College ($20,000); The Smith important role they play in nurturing new Sally Rooney for novel, The Cut Out Girl by Family ($12,000); and the The Wheeler and emerging writers and their fascinating Bart van Es for biography, Assurances by Centre ($20,000). For more information projects. The addition of the residential J.O. Morgan for poetry, and The Skylarks’ Indie Book Awards shortlist about the Readings Foundation, see Fellowships, thanks to CAL and the War by Hilary McKay for children’s books. The Indie Book Awards have announced readings.com.au/the-readings-foundation University of Melbourne, is a particularly For more information about these awards, their shortlists for the best Australian exciting and welcome development adding including a list of all the shortlisted titles, books of 2018, as chosen by independent a new level to the Fellowships.’ For more please see costa.co.uk/costa-book-awards booksellers around the country. The Readings Prizes guest judges announced fiction shortlist includes The Lost Man by We’re delighted to announce the three Jane Harper, Shell by Kristina Olsson, The brilliant authors that will be the guest Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton and Bridge judges for our literary prizes in 2019. Zana of Clay by Markus Zusak. The nonfiction Fraillon will be the guest judge for the shortlist includes The Land Before Avocado Readings Children’s Book Prize 2019, Cath by Richard Glover, The Arsonist by Chloe Crowley will be the guest judge for the Hooper, Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee and Readings Young Adult Book Prize 2019, Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales. See and Jennifer Down will be the guest judge indiebookawards.com.au for the full shortlist for the Readings Prize for New Australian in every category Fiction 2019. In each case, the guest judge joins our staff judging panel after the shortlist has been decided, and helps the Readings Story Times panel to select a winner. Readings offers a free weekly half-hour children’s story time at our Kids, Doncaster and Malvern shops. These sessions Book clubs commence at 10am on Fridays at Readings In 2019, we will be running four new book Kids and Readings Doncaster, and 10.30am clubs at our State Library shop: a fiction on Thursdays at Readings Malvern. 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Phil Richards DVDS CURATOR Lou Fulco EVENTS CURATOR Chris Gordon 4 READINGS MONTHLY February 2019 EVENTS mother by his side, Platypup discovers that his home by the river is just as lovely in the February dark of night as it is during the day! Readings Kids 315 Lygon Street, Carlton Events TORIES Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events S AN LI Event times and locations are subject to change. A R T For the most up-to-date information on events, S please check readings.com.au/events U A 50 Australian Stories Friday 1 February, 6.30pm-7.30pm event series BOOKED OUT YOTAM OTTOLENGHI IN Readings is celebrating our CONVERSATION WITH 50 year history in 2019. To MAEVE O’MEARA honour the stories that have For one night only, we are delighted to emerged from the books on give you an opportunity to hear from one our shelves, we are hosting of the greatest food commentators and 50 special events that creators of our time, Israeli-British chef illustrate passion, artistry and Yotam Ottolenghi. The author of several Australian literature. We hope bestselling cookbooks including Plenty you will join our celebrations. and, most recently, Simple, Ottolenghi will talk about the joy of remaining simple in your approach to food, life and love with award-winning Australian food writer, Monday 25 February, 6.30pm broadcaster and television producer Maeve 0 AUST 5 RAL IAN ST O’Meara. Both Ottolenghi and O’Meara will O Tuesday 19 February, 6.30pm R IE sign copies of their books, which will be MARK BRANDI IN S Thursday 28 February, 6.30pm available for purchase, following the event.