Journal

Our April Kid's selection contains a beautiful and very timely message for readers big and small: nothing lasts forever!

Julia Baird's Phosphorescence, Ellena Savage's Blueberries and Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel, it's been a very good month of reading!

Introducing Vivian Pham and her coming-of-age, Cabramatta-based, absolutely dazzling debut novel The Coconut Children. 

The whole program is a doozy but here are our Top 10 picks of the Sydney Writers' Festival 2020.

Our March selection is a colourful celebration of Australia by Bronwyn Bancroft. 

Jenny Offhill's brilliant new book Weather (already one of our favourite reads of the year), a strange but engrossing novella by Amina Cain, and Anne Enright's latest novel Actress.

Our March selection is a powerful debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of 14-year-old Adunni, a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to fight for her dreams and choose her own future.

Pics from our event with Josephine Rowe and Favel Parrett at The Alderman.

A gorgeously illustrated and cleverly told story about learning to love new places and the special bond of friendship.

Two brilliant memoirs and a new voice in Australian fiction that everyone is comparing to Sally Rooney - it's been an excellent month of reading!

An intelligent, stylish and compulsive read that will keep you guessing until the very last pages. Sometimes that is exactly the book we all need to read!

We didn’t intend to send out short stories when we started WellRead but Josephine Rowe’s Here Until August contains such brilliant writing with stories that knock the wind right out of you that they just had to be shared.