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Actress

The Mirror & The Light

The Long Distance Playlist

Dear Girls

Sand Talk

The Dutch House

This Is How We Change the Ending

Three Women

The Girls

The Nickel Boys

It Sounded Better in my Head

Starfell: Willow Moss and the Lost Day

City of Girls

The Glad Shout

The Doll Factory

Daring Greatly

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🛑 A reminder that we are CLOSED today! Our new temporary hours are Tues - Sat, 10am - 4pm. Here’s a snap of what we’re reading from home: Miranda Popkey’s debut novel, ‘Topics of Conversation’. Absolutely loving this sassy, morally ambiguous book about desire. For lovers of Sally Rooney and Ottessa Moshfegh.

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NEW SPACE, NEW HOURS • Heyo 👋🏼 We have have some more updates as we continue to adapt to the changing days and the easing of restrictions. Firstly, our current temporary trading hours are TUESDAY TO SATURDAY, 10AM TO 4PM. Closed Mondays for behind-the-scenes business, but reopening on Saturdays, which we’re sure is great news for those returning to workplaces during the week. Also note the extra hour of trade each day (closing at 4pm instead of 3 💪🏼) • Secondly, we are so happy to welcome you into our new BOOK NOOK, the successor of our enormously popular drive-thru. We’ve created a cosy space at the front of our shop for brief browsing and generally stepping out of the cold. In the name of comfort and safety, there is a limit of two customers in the nook at once, but it’s a darn sight better than standing in the rain! 🌧 That’s all for now folks. See you Tuesday!

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♦️ ON BREAK SUN 10 - SUN 17 MAY ♦️ We need a rest! The past month has been a blur and we need to take a moment to recharge and reorganise the shop.♦️ We will see you on Monday 18 Monday, refreshed and ready for more book chat. Thanks birds!

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📚 Get your books TODAY and TOMORROW before we break for a week! We will be closed from Sunday 10 to Sunday 17 May, reopening Monday 18th. 📚 Here’s a snap of our refreshed new releases shelf - fiction on the left and non-fiction on the right - to inspire your next selection. There are some really exciting books in this batch. How about a novel told from the perspective of Jesus’ wife (‘The Book of Longings’ by Sue Monk Kidd), or a novel in which a woman’s husband suddenly becomes an insufferable fitness freak (‘The Motion of the Body Through Space’ by Lionel Shriver)? On our non-fiction menu we have ‘18 Tiny Deaths’, the story of the “mother of forensics”, Frances Glessner Lee, and a biography of Winston’s Churchill’s lifelong cook, Georgina Landemare (‘Victory in the Kitchen’). Or what about a collection of essays about dogs (‘Good Dog’) or a history of opium (‘Milk of Paradise’)? Many and varied is our smorgasbord of new titles ✨📚✨

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This is a book that’s both PERFECT for a family with two mums, and likewise for families of any make-up and description. ‘Who’s Your Real Mum?’ is a celebration of parenthood, love, and an excellent tool for understanding that not all families look the same - and that that’s a good thing! We love basically anything @scribblekidsbooks does, but this book is a true gem in their crown. 💎💎

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Artist @meredithgaston practically has her own dedicated shelf in our shop, we love her stuff that much. ✨ Following the release of her lifestyle and wellness books - such as ‘The Art of Gratitude’, ‘101 Moments of Joy and Inspiration’, and ‘Find Your Sparkle’ - comes her first set of inspiration cards. Featuring Gaston’s signature whimsical artworks and uplifting messages from the artist herself, these cards are tools for nurturing the spirit and healing the soul ✨💓🔮

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Mother’s Day inspo! Big beautiful hardbacks from @thamesandhudsonau ❣️❣️ These are some of the latest in design, baking, and gardening. And there’s more where these came from. How about fashion, or art, or architecture? Let us know what your mum loves (besides you!) and we’ll find her a book to match ❣️

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A note on our drive-by bookshop in the coming weeks:

Below is some information on what will change and what will remain the same in the next few weeks, so please have a read. Thanks for sticking with us birdies! ♦️ We are OPEN 10am - 3pm Monday 4 - Saturday 9 May. Note that we are OPEN next Saturday. This enables you to collect any last minute Mother’s Day gifts in time for Sunday. Cue sighs of relief! ♦️ Next week’s deliveries will go Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, instead of Wednesday and Friday. This way we can accomodate Mother’s Day deliveries. ☺️ ♦️ We will be CLOSED Sunday 10 - Sunday 17 May. There are many things that happen behind the scenes at the nest which we desperately need to catch up on. As such, we will be closed for one week following Mother’s Day. A lot of work goes into making our shop run smoothly and this will enable us to get organised again and recharge our batteries. ♦️ The takeaway counter will remain in place until the Premier announces significant changes to social distancing rules. We have had a number of customers ask when they will be allowed back into the shop. While we acknowledge that browsing in bookshops is one of life’s greatest pleasures and we dearly miss welcoming you into the nest, we will continue to operate as a drive-by shop until the government advises it is safe to do otherwise. Even then, returning to normal (normal! Remember that?!) will be a staggered process. For instance, when we can allow people back inside, we may still need to limit how many people we have in the store at once. Don’t worry, we will update you on all decisions as they’re made!
Thanks again for your understanding and continued support. You’ve blown our minds and filled our hearts. ❤️ And now! Swipe ➡️ for some Mother’s Day gift inspo from our friends at @thamesandhudsonau. They do the most incredible design, photography, gardening, cooking, and art books. All things big and beautiful. Here are some of our recent favourites.

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💖 Slightly obsessed with this new book of striking botanical illustrations by Adriana Picker. These works just bounce off the page and into your eyeballs. It’s practically impossible to feel blue looking through this book (unless we’re talking, like, electric blue). 💖 Accompanying Picker’s dazzling artwork are words by Nina Rousseau who elucidates the meanings, folktales, myths and other curiosities that inform Picker’s art 💖 @hardiegrantbooks @adrianapicker

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Discussing Pip Williams’ ‘The Dictionary of Lost Words’ with a customer this morning, who had this to say: “I don’t know what it is about this book but it just entranced me. The subject matter - how the Oxford Dictionary came to be - is fascinating in itself, but it’s the author’s style that really transported me. So wonderfully written. I just loved it.” 😀 @affirmpress

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❣️MOTHERS DAY CARDS ❣️ We have a selection of cards for mums, grans and nans designed and printed in Geelong by @rabbit.in.a.hat ❣️

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Our first THREE deliveries of A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull sold out before they even reached the shelves! Happy to report we now have stock available. But be real quick! Malcolm is flying out the door faster than you can say “former Prime Minister.”

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The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were announced last night, and these are the winners from each category! Some Mother’s Day ideas in there perhaps? 📷 @statelibrarynsw

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Our readers were so excited about this book, we started taking pre-orders MONTHS before its release. 💜 Untamed is about listening to the voice that whispers: this is not enough, there is more, something different and beautiful, out there. It is about distinguishing between the culturally conditioned voice (societal rules and expectations, what it is to be “good”) and the voice of the true, untamed self. As Glennon writes, ‘The braver we are, the luckier we get.’ 💜 Recommended for lovers of Elizabeth Gilbert and Brené Brown.

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📚 I WILL JUDGE YOU BY YOUR BOOKSHELF, by Grant Snider 📚 From the many stages of the reader (discovering books, falling in love, books as a substitute for human interaction and so on), to typefaces, to “how to dissect a poem”, THIS is the comic for serious book lovers. So cheeky, so witty, and so true. New in store. 📕 @grantdraws