Books We Love

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

When All Is Said

The Word is Murder

The Place on Dalhousie

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Urban Aviary is a unique guide to the unusual and often surprising birds that soar above our cities around the world. From frigatebirds wheeling over Rio de Janeiro to bowerbirds displaying in the suburbs of Canberra, penguins in Cape Town to pelicans in San Francisco, and huge flocks of starlings roosting around the Colosseum in Rome, the world's cities are home to a remarkable array of feathered citizens.
Through Stephen Moss's expert knowledge and insight, Urban Aviary provides a beautiful guide to some of the most extraordinary species of city birds that have become native, including helpful spotting hints and fact boxes for each bird, all of which are brought to life by Marc Martin's distinctive and beautiful watercolours.

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The sweetest little illustration by @oliverjeffers. We'd love to have an octopus reading us bedtime stories!

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Most kids will be heading back to school next week - and if you have a little one starting, we have some great books on just this topic, to help get them excited and allay any anxieties about the big day. We have heaps more options in store!

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If you're feeling exhausted after returning to work, here is a happy little reminder for you!

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So often, we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures - while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which - if only we paid more attention - could bring us solace and joy daily, at little cost and effort. But we need some encouragement to focus our gaze.

Small Pleasures is a book to guide us to the best of life's small pleasures: everything from the distinctive delight of holding a child's hand to the enjoyment of disagreeing with someone, to the joy of the evening sky; an intriguing, evocative mix of small pleasures that will heighten our senses and return us to the world with new-found excitement and enthusiasm.

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In the pages of A Velocity of Being, some of today's most wonderful culture-makers-writers, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers reflect on the joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human experience, and the ways in which the written word has formed their own character.
On the page facing each letter, an illustration by a celebrated illustrator or graphic artist presents that artist's visual response. Among the diverse contributions are letters from Jane Goodall, Neil Gaiman, Jerome Bruner, Shonda Rhimes, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yo-Yo Ma, Judy Blume, Lena Dunham, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Jacqueline Woodson, as well as a ninety-eight-year-old Holocaust survivor, a pioneering oceanographer, and Italy's first woman in space.
Some of the illustrators, cartoonists, and graphic designers involved are Marianne Dubuc, Sean Qualls, Oliver Jeffers, Maira Kalman, Mo Willems, Isabelle Arsenault, Chris Ware, Liniers, Shaun Tan, Tomi Ungerer, and Art Spiegelman.
This project is woven entirely of goodwill, generosity of spirit, and a shared love of books. Everyone involved has donated their time, and all profits will go to the New York Public Library systems.

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Love this beautiful illustration by @beatricealemagna.

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Walking sticks have had a bad press. For too long the walking stick has been portrayed as a workaday item of codgerism, a simple support for the aged and infirm.

This is not the case. Possession of a walking stick opens up a whole gamut of opportunities beyond the simple 'leaning against' purpose. In 49 Uses for A Walking Stick Frank Hopkinson explains the variety of practical uses a walking stick can be put to, from flicking filthy slugs off a lawn and parting crowds to alerting a theatre-goer two rows in front that his rapid consumption of fruit bonbons is ruining everyone's enjoyment.

Illustrated throughout, the book also includes a miscellany of walking stick trivia, facts and figures and fun information.

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Easy Peasy Gardening for Kids is an introduction to - you guessed it - easy gardening for kids, so you can grow everywhere and anywhere.

Whether you live in the city or the countryside, there are plenty of places you can plant and grow. For a new generation of green fingers there are different ways to bring nature into the home. Make your own pots, build balcony boxes, create your own bird feeders and even get friendly with worms! Each activity has been carefully chosen to create living, renewable and sustainable environments for kids and their families. Each activity has been carefully written by Kirsten Bradley, a leading practitioner in permaculture for kids and co-founder of Milkwood permaculture farm in Australia.

The simple steps and beautiful spot illustrations make activities fun and easy to follow. The book will also feature non-activity spreads explaining the importance of why and how nature works.

Beautifully illustrated by Aitch, a Romanian artist whose folkloric illustrations pay homage to vintage botanical books, while giving each page a sense of modern magic.

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✨ 20% OFF CALENDARS ✨ We’ve lopped 20% off our marvellous range of calendars by Blue Island Press, which are all designed and printed in Australia on Italian archive paper. Now $28, down from $35. ⚡️

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A reminder that we are open from 10am - 5pm Monday to Saturday throughout January; Sundays we will be open from 10am - 4pm.

PS this is one of Anna’s favourite recent reads!

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How our brain is feeling right about now.

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A collaboration between writer, comic and chicken owner, Fiona Scott-Norman, and acclaimed photographer, Ilana Rose, This Chicken Life is a collection of stories about chickens and the Australians who love them. This book has been going crazy and for good reason - it's wonderful! We love this pic from @herechookchook, who also happens to be featured in the book. Perfect for all chook lovers!

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WE'RE BACK! Well, we will be tomorrow: open Monday to Saturday from 10am - 5pm. See you then!