READING PLEASURES, foreword by Jennifer Byrne, NLA.

This charming, meticulously researched book – in praise of the bound word – cradles quotes and illustrations. Two paintings of women reading are Women’s

Weekly covers – from 1937 and 1949 – while a 1967 Women’s Weekly fiction illustration of a couple; the girl reading, nestles opposite a Miles Franklin quotation from My Brilliant Career: “We sat ... under a stringbark-tree and discussed books we had read ... and enjoyed ourselves so much we quite forgot … the flight of time until recalled from book-land.”