Books We Love

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

When All Is Said

The Word is Murder

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With playful wit, worldly advice and savvy observation, the bestselling authors of How to Be Parisian tackle the Parisian art of growing up.

Caroline de Maigret and Sophie Mas are back to amuse you, saying what you don’t expect to hear, just the way you want to hear it. But this time they reveal how they are modifying their favourite bad girl habits and mischievous mindsets now they are more ‘madam’ than 'mademoiselle’. These iconoclastic, bohemian Parisiennes advise on love, seduction, fashion and dating as well as family, work, living alone and accepting imperfections.

Both poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, this gorgeous, tongue-in-cheek guide astutely illuminates what it means to be a fully-fledged woman.

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🦘 Drop by the shop this Friday at 10am to meet Wayne Marshall, author of the short story collection Shirl, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Wayne will be in store signing copies of his stunning collection of imaginative short fiction. @affirmpress 🦘

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PAKO FESTA PRIZE 📚 It’s two weeks today until Pako Festa 2020, and we’re so pumped that we’ve put together a prize 📚 Spend $50 in store and go in the running to win this book stack. A great spread of adult and children’s titles, there’s something in there for all readers. ➡️ Swipe for close-ups! 📚 A few Ts&Cs: entries are for Saturday 29 February only, not before or after; the book stack is final and cannot be exchanged for other titles; we will draw the winner the week following Pako Festa and notify them by email and/or phone. @pakofesta

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Mini review by Charlotte - The Topeka School

Is like bootcamp for your brain. As in, you will sweat, and it may hurt at times, but when you’ve finished you’ll be so much stronger and healthier an in posession of an impressive six-pack, intellectually speaking. One of my top reads of 2019. There is no one like Ben Lerner.

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Book Bird Celeste recently read Your Own Kind of Girl by Clare Bowditch, and thinks it is a sweet memoir which delves into the struggles of living with anxiety and depression.
Bowditch has a relatable and friendly writing style, and the book brims with warmth.

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Delving deep into the Australian landscape and the environmental challenges we face, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of cultural burning practices, and improved 'reading' of country, could help to restore our land

For every copy sold, Publishers Hardie Grant will donate $1 to Firesticks, which empowers Indigenous fire management practitioners to revive cultural burning.

A very timely release and available in-store now.

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Andrea's 2020 Reading Goals

I plan to continue doing exactly what I love to do: reading widely of fiction and non fiction, whether newly released, or backlist, or completely forgotten. I don't mind if it was written in 2019, 1919, or 1019, just as long as it has something to share and something I can learn. My goal for 2020 is to read at least some of these books with a glass of pinot noir I can't presently afford.

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We’ve got some amazing new release books in store now. Pop in and have a look!

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Oh how we love the Summer Time picture book for its clever collage illustrations, gorgeous rhyming language and the way it captures that summer holiday feeling of freedom, swimming, ice cream and days that stretch on forever and ever. Back in stock now.

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Following on from the wonderful Search & Find: Alphabet of Alphabets comes a number counting version. With super fun illustrations that aren't too busy, this is perfect for ages 3+.

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Moving house? Need boxes? This year, we really want to find a way to get more of our boxes and packaging reused within the community. We get so much of it and we want to see these items being reused instead of going g straight in to the recycling. Do you need them, or does someone you know need them? Let us know, and come and pick them up from the shop!

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Constant Readers is a gloriously scribbly celebration of all types of readers. What kind of reader are you?