Reader’s Feast opens online store
Independent Melbourne bookstore Reader’s Feast has opened an online store. The store opened on Friday 22 February and can be accessed through Reader’s Feast’s existing website. Owner Mary Dalmau told...
Greenwood, Disher top bestsellers at sixth Reader’s Feast Crime and Justice Festival
Books by Kerry Greenwood and Garry Disher were the bestselling titles at this year’s Crime and Justice Festival, held at Reader’s Feast Bookstore in Melbourne on 15-17 November. Festival organiser...
Booksellers recognised at Australian Retail Awards
Reader’s Feast Bookstore, the Co-op and ABC Stores have been recognised at the 2013 Australian Retailers Association (ARA) Australian Retail Awards. Melbourne-based Reader’s Feast was named runner-up in the Victorian Retailer...
Rankin and Greenwood top bestsellers at relocated Crime and Justice Festival
The 2012 Crime and Justice Festival was held over the weekend in its new home on Collins St, Melbourne, having previously been located at Abbottsford convent. Festival organiser Mary Dalmau...
Melbourne booksellers, library launch ‘Readers’ Walk’ project
Reader’s Feast Bookstore, antiquarian bookseller Kay Craddock and the Melbourne Athenaeum Library have joined forces to launch a new initiative in Collins Street, Melbourne, called the Readers’ Walk. Described as ‘an...
Reader’s Feast to reopen before Christmas
Reader's Feast Bookstore will reopen in a new location in Melbourne before Christmas. Store owner Mary Dalmau told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the newly independent store will be located in...
Reader’s Feast to reopen before Christmas
Reader's Feast Bookstore will reopen in a new location in Melbourne before Christmas. Store owner Mary Dalmau told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the new store will be located in...
Reader’s Feast likely to open in new location in late November
Reader's Feast is likely to re-open in Melbourne in late November. On Twitter and Facebook the bookstore, which operated from the corner of Bourke and Swanston streets in Melbourne's CBD...
Eureka Street/Reader’s Feast Award announced; Reader’s Feast writers festivals to continue
Lea McInerney has been announced as the winner of this year's Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award. The award, worth $5000, is supported by Reader's Feast general manager Mary Dalmau, and will...
Reader’s Feast bookshop to close
Reader's Feast bookshop in Melbourne, a company-owned REDgroup Retail store run by Mary Dalmau, is set to close in four to five weeks. Administrators Ferrier Hodgson have released a statement...
Capacity crowds at 2011 Writers at the Convent
The Reader's Feast Writers at the Convent festival has continued to increase its year-on-year audience numbers, with audience numbers for the 2011 festival up on 2010 figures. Festival founder and...
2011 Writers at the Convent guest list, program released
The guest list and daily program for this year's Writers at the Convent event have been released. The 2011 event, which will be held at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne...
Lay wins Reader’s Feast/Eureka Street Award at third Crime and Justice Festival
The third Reader's Feast Crime and Justice Festival was held over the weekend from 16 to 18 July at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne. Festival organiser Mary Dalmau told the...
Writers at the Convent 2010 guests announced
Some of the guests for this year's Reader's Feast Writers at the Convent festival, to be held from 12 to 14 February at Melbourne's Abbotsford Convent, have been announced. Among...
In brief
Barry to deliver Sydney PEN lectureMax Barry will give a lecture on ‘risk' as part of the Sydney PEN Voices project, on 15 July in Sydney and 21 July in...
In brief
Two bookshops close in LismoreDymocks CEO Don Grover confirmed the closure of the Dymocks store in Lismore in New South Wales, telling WBN the Lismore franchisee made the decision to...
Reader’s Feast sells ebook readers
Melbourne's Reader's Feast Bookstore has become one of the first independent bookstores to carry a range of ebook readers. The store stocks the Bookeen Cybook, Irex iLiad (V2 and Book...
Second annual Writers at the Convent draws more than 4000
The second annual Writers at the Convent festival ran from 13 to 15 February at the Abbotsford Convent in Melbourne. The event, organised and hosted by Reader's Feast Bookstore and...
Writers at the Convent program released
The program for the second annual Writers at the Convent festival, organised by Reader's Feast bookstore, has been announced. On February 13, 14 and 15, writers and readers will congregate...
Inaugural Crime and Justice festival a success
The inaugural Crime & Justice festival, presented by Reader's Feast Bookshop, was held at Melbourne's Abbotsford Convent over the weekend.The festival, which combines the two themes of crime fiction and...