Books We Love

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

When All Is Said

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🌨 Sitting down to start the new Jenny Offill novel, Weather. It’s about a librarian, Lizzie, who acts as an unofficial shrink to both her mother and brother. When Lizzie is hired to answer the mail of an old mentor and now famous podcaster, Lizzie’s view of the world is dramatically polarised and reshaped. 🌨 How’s everyone else’s Sunday going? We’ll be back at our takeaway window from 10am Tuesday, so until then, happy reading!

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We’ve had a mammoth week and are absolutely bone tired. Thank you to all who bought, ordered, called, emailed, messaged and so forth. We need to recharge over the next few days, and will be back behind our cute-as takeaway counter Tuesday 7 April from 10am. Go well birdies!

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We sense a pattern emerging 🧐... Our takeaway window will be open again tomorrow from 10am to 4pm. 🛍 deliveries leaving the shop at 3, so get your requests in before then 🙃

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“There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Latern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings, our ocean depths and fringes are full of luminous beings, creatures lit from the inside... For me, today, these lights are the perfect metaphor for flashes of life in the middle of the dark, or joy in difficult times.” ✨ A book so eerily applicable to the gloom we find ourselves in right now that it has an almost prophetic quality. A beacon, a torch, a lighthouse of a book. Thank you @juliabaird. @harpercollinsaustralia

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Hours for the morrow dear friends! 🛍🛍

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From the creators that brought you the Dream Decoder, we present The Box of Emotions. These eighty cards use colour as a prompt to unlock emotions we may not be aware of, and to explore new ways of engaging with how we feel. The cards are grouped into categories such as ‘Zen’, ‘Bliss’, ‘Ego’, and ‘Emptiness’ - to name just a few examples - and then further broken down into specific states of being. Each card has a short essay on the reverse that prompts the reader to consider the nuances of that emotion. The essays are engaging, philosophical, and approachable. And you will learn things. Like, for example, the word ‘Litost’, which describes the shame, resentment and anger felt when another makes us feel wretched. Or about the history of the ‘smile revolution’ and its origins in eighteenth century France. We’re pretty happy with The Box of Emotions 😊 In store now. @laurencekingpub

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Here we go again... Open tomorrow, Wednesday 1 April, 10am-4pm 🛍

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Time for some recommendations! Today’s theme is ‘Gripping new literary fiction by Australian women writers’. Our picks are: 💙 Below Deck by Sophie Hardcastle 💙 The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay 💙 Sheerwater by Leah Swann.

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It’s time for your daily trading hours update! Open for takeaways tomorrow 10am - 4pm. 🛍

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Slow mornings with coffee, toast and a feel-good read. 🥰 In this heart-felt romantic comedy, Amy returns to her family’s resort in the Whitsundays for her father’s wedding to Sanjay. After being unlucky in love for some time, she catches the eye of a young man who, it turns out, is Sanjay’s son. And so commences a roiling family drama that involves the siblings, the aunts, the cousins and the new in-laws studded with hilarious dialogue and witty observations. 💛 Big love for this debut novel by New Zealand journalist Bronwyn Sell.

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Time for our daily opening hours update 😅 We will be open tomorrow 10am-4pm. Deliveries will hit the cycle paths at 3pm so get your orders in before then!

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Do your wee people wake up as Huffalots, and, with a little luck and patience, transform into Lovealots throughout the day? That is the story of @eve.coy’s delightful new picture book, which we think will resonate with many a parent! 💖 Bright, beautifully told and totally relatable, we think The Huffalots could be the secret ingredient for a magical stay-at-home day. 💖

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Our takeaway window will be open tomorrow from 11am-3pm 🛍👍🏼 Note that this is an hour later than our usual Sunday opening time BUT opening hours don’t affect when you can put your requests in! Leave a message on our phone, text us, email, or message whenever suits you, and we will get back to you asap. 🙌🏼 And a huge thank-you for your unwavering support, readers. We have been absolutely blown away by love-gusts the past few weeks. Very grateful for our community at a time like this. Hear from you soon ❤️

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Highly recommend the @abcradionational interview with Dr Mark Cross on his new book, Anxiety. Such a perfect blend of the personal and clinical, covering a multitude of ways to combat, in his words, “the red-eyed Yeti.” In stock now.

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Who knows when the last day will be to experience our drive-by bookshop? See you tomorrow maybe and remember you can reach us through basically every other means of communication if you're at home:

Phone - 5224 1438 (we are receiving an enormous amount of ph calls from you amazing people so please leave a message and we WILL return your call as soon as poss. Pinky promise)
Email - info@thebookbird.com.au
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