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V. V. Ganeshananthan wins the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
V. V. Ganeshananthan was announced today as the second ever winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, for her novel Brotherless Night.
Brotherless Night is a searing, gripping novel about a young Tamil woman living through the Sri Lankan civil war.
Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war…
Dear Reader with Alison Huber
Ceridwen Dovey needs no introduction to the Readings faithful, but for completeness, let me remind you that she was the inaugural recipient of The Readings Prize for New Australian Writing in 2014 with Only the Animals, an inventive work of linked short stories that has since found many, many readers. Dovey has published several works since that breakthrough book…
Picture books with LGBTQIA+ families
Books have always been an important way that young kids start to understand the world around them. Diverse representation in children’s books is particularly important, so that kids can see themselves or begin to understand others in their communities.
So that all families can find books that resonate for them, we’ve curated a range of picture books that represent and…
