The Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 shortlist
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Special price on a cookbook classic
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First published in 1996, Stephanie Alexander's culinary bible, The Cook's Companion is an essential guide to everything you need to know in the kitchen. In this celebratory 30th anniversary edition, you can find over 90 new or newly revised recipes as well as a full update of the introduction, ingredients, equipment and a new ‘how to use this book’ section.
While stock lasts we have The Cook's Companion 30th anniversary edition available to buy online and in our shops at the special price of $99.99 ( was $130). |
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Recommended Australian fiction
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... an intimate, thoughtful novel that explores the fraught constancy of sisterhood and the ways we change, and don’t change, as we age.
Bella Mackey, Readings bookseller
Set in 1900s Adelaide on a family vineyard, Sororicidal is a story about womanhood, the entanglement of family, the thin line between care and spite, and two sisters who are inextricably linked across a lifetime.
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'A witty and hilarious satire about the depressing reality of housing prices in Australia.' – Aurelia Orr, Readings bookseller
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'In prose thick with the argot of the time, The Trap drops us into a sultry Sydney summer.' – Bernard Caleo, Readings bookseller
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'Beautifully written, feminist fiction that will keep you turning the pages.' – Angela Crocombe, Readings bookseller
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'Beautifully illustrates the internal conflict that goes with staying beside someone who is self-sabotaging.' – Aurelia Orr, Readings bookseller
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'For readers who want to experience a sitcom in book form.' – Alicia Guiney, Readings bookseller
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'A dystopian novel that is so immediate in devastation that it keeps you very engaged.' – Melanie Barton, Readings bookseller
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It is satirical, it is painful, and it is us – all of us. Get your hands on a copy and read it in one weekend.
Chris Gordon, Readings bookseller
An audacious comic lament from the Booker Prize-shortlisted writer Steve Toltz, A Rising of the Lights is about what holds a life together when everything is coming apart.
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