Books We Love

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

The Twisted Tree

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

How to be Second Best

The Waiter

The Van Apfel Girls are Gone

The Hunting Party

The Underground Railroad

The Corset

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🖊️ AUTHOR SIGNING TODAY 🖊️ Michelle Se

🖊️ AUTHOR SIGNING TODAY 🖊️

Michelle See-Tho was the winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize for her novel ‘Jade and Emerald,’ a coming-of-age story that explores the intersections of race and class, and with an intriguing and unlikely friendship at its heart. ❤️

Michelle will be dropping by the store at 3pm today to sign copies of her book and chat about her writing journey. Visit us at 3 today to meet Michelle!

We also have an interview with Michelle in the works, so keep your eyes on the blog for that.

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Only a few more days to book your seat at our even

Only a few more days to book your seat at our evening with Dr Norman Swan, who will be discussing everything you want to know about raising happy, healthy kids aged 0 to 10.

Dr Norman Swan will be in conversation with journalist and Sorrento Writers Festival Director Corrie Perkin at The KO Creative Studio on Wednesday 31 July.

Tickets at the link in our bio.

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And we’re back to normal programming after our m

And we’re back to normal programming after our manager Charlotte (me!) has been away for a solid month of summer… ☀️

We’ve got a number of excellent events coming up with our friends at @_the_ko_ over end of July and August, so be sure to browse through their website’s ’what’s on’ page to see what’s happening.

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A quick flight to Seattle in order to see the emer

A quick flight to Seattle in order to see the emerald city and explore a few Washington bookshops, including the very special Arundel Books.

Arundel Books was founded in 1984 as a fine press publisher, then expanded into rare and secondhand books focussing on art and poetry. Now, Arundel operates its retail store in Pioneer Square and its affiliate press, Chatwin Books, as well as its own book binding and letterpress operation!

Definitely walked out of here with a few new-to-us goodies. Couldn’t resist!

(And yes, we absolutely went to see the house boat that featured in Sleepless in Seattle. It hasn’t changed!❤️)

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California Bookshop tour, stop number… four? I’m losing track!

I mostly only got the outside of this gorgeous bookshop in Nevada City because we were in a mad dash, but how inviting does Harmony Books look from the street? This little store looks good in all seasons: here, against a bright blue sky, and also in winter surrounded by snow, which is when I visited.

Situated inside a heritage building (as is the entire town, with most buildings dating from the 1850s) and in a courtyard where readers can sit and enjoy their just-discovered books, Harmony Books is a total sanctuary for the mind and soul. Love this place and will certainly let be back for a more leisurely browse 📚

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Copperfield’s Books in Sebastopol, California.

Copperfield’s Books in Sebastopol, California.

A highlight of Copperfield’s, which is a series of nine sprawling bookstores located in various Californian towns, is their stationery section. Yes, the books are fantastic and the range extensive, but just LOOK at that wall of journals 🤤 🖊️ Very inspired by the sheer number of notebooks to choose from, which covered not just the wall pictured (slide 6) but also a whole extra pay and a display table too.

Sebastopol is a quaint little town in Sonoma County (heading further north again from Point Reyes) and the home of Copperfield’s flagship store and headquarters. Highly recommend a visit if you’re ever passing through!

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Next stop on our Californian bookshop tour is Poin

Next stop on our Californian bookshop tour is Point Reyes Books in Point Reyes, Northern California—a tiny little town on the headland known for its shoreline and national parks. Point Reyes Books is an iconic bookshop next to the delectable Bovine Bakery in the heart of town (can recommend their bear claw pastries).

Point Reyes Station has a long history of bookselling stretching back to 1969 and spanning multiple locations in the hamlet. The current owners, Stephen Sparks and Molly Parent, took over in 2017 and continue to run the shop as a vibrant community hub for West Marin county.

Last pic of a family of deer in the State Park just around the corner from Point Reyes. Signs on the road say “go slow, it’s fawn season,” and indeed there are fawns aplenty!

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Our store manager Charlotte (me) is back in Califo

Our store manager Charlotte (me) is back in California visiting family and because of the too-hard-basket nature of resetting Instagram logins, you’re once again coming along for the ride!

Our Californian bookshop tour was weirdly popular last time around, and even though some of the sites will be the same, the season is different (visiting this time in summer rather than an ill-advised winter).

So here we have our first stop, Browser Books in Fillmore, San Francisco. Browser Books is an indie bookshop that opened in 1981 and has been serving the local neighbourhood with great reads ever since. The “staff picks” shelf packs an absolute punch and the poetry section is to die for. Love that timber shelving and all the lovingly handwritten notes. Mwah! 👌🏼

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Two snaps from our recent event with Natalie Paull

Two snaps from our recent event with Natalie Paull, in conversation with Jaclyn Crupi at @_the_ko_ 🍰 ✨

It was such a magical and delicious night that we forgot to capture more moments, but suffice to say we had a full house of cake lovers, many of whom were customers of the beloved Beatrix Bakes store, engaged in a conversation about how cooking is about much more than food. It’s about life, and it’s a way of expressing love. Jaclyn and Natalie also talked about the cookbooks ‘Beatrix Bakes’ and ‘Beatrix Bakes Another Slice’ and the differences between the two (the first is the “shop book” and the second the “home book,” which is such a handy distinction), and how visceral and sensory Natalie Paull’s writing is.

Signed copies in store. And HUGE thank you to Jaclyn—foodie extraordinaire, author and fellow bookseller—for hosting this night. Keep your eyes peeled for more chats coming with Jaclyn!

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New picture books for the littles! 🐉’The Sp

New picture books for the littles!

🐉’The Spaceman,’ Randy Cecil
🐉’Good Hair,’ Yvonne Sewankambo
🐉’Boss Cat,’ Sarah Speedie
🐉’Every Night at Midnight,’ Peter Cheong
🐉 ‘Pavlo Gets the Grumps,’ Natalia Shaloshvili

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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 Join us for an evening w

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

Join us for an evening with respected doctor and author, Dr Norman Swan, to discuss his new book all about parenting young children during the critical primary school years, aged five to ten.

‘So You Want To Know What’s Good For Your Kids?’ is a handbook on raising happy, healthy kids in the modern world, clearing away myths and misconceptions to provide practical knowledge and advice on topics such as sleep, diet, school refusal, screens, social media, anxiety and much more.

Dr Norman Swan has a background in paediatrics and a broadcast career spanning thirty years. He is known for delivering clear, evidence-based and unbiased health advice. This book is based on the questions he gets asked by parents time and time again, and is part of his bestselling medical series.

Dr Norman Swan will be in conversation with journalist Corrie Perkin.

DETAILS
🏠 The KO Creative Studio
1/14 Lambert Avenue, Newtown
🗓️ Wed 31 July, 6pm
🎟️ Tickets $30, includes wine and nibbles on the night

This is sure to be a popular night for local families, so book in quick!

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New fiction through the doors: ✨ ‘Parade,’

New fiction through the doors:

✨ ‘Parade,’ Rachel Cusk
✨ ‘Blue Sisters,’ Coco Mellors
✨ ‘Hurdy Gurdy,’ Jenny Ackland
✨ ‘A Refiner’s Fire,’ Donna Leon
✨ ‘Imperial Harvest,’ Bruce Pascoe
✨ ‘Ghost Cities,’ Siang Lu

✨ New window! ✨ Our winter window reflecting

✨ New window! ✨

Our winter window reflecting a chill blue sky…

What new treasures can you find? 📚

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“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to li

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.” - Raymond Carver

🛌 📕 ☕️

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A few new non-fiction arrivals… 📕 ‘If You

A few new non-fiction arrivals…

📕 ‘If You Live to 100, You Might as Well be Happy’, Rhee Kun Hoo
📕 ‘Because I’m Not Myself, You See,’ Ariane Beeston
📕 ‘Mickey: The cat who helped me through times of change,’ Helen Brown
📕 ‘The Anxious Generation,’ Jonathan Haidt
📕 ‘My Family and Other Rock Stars,’ Tiffany Murray
📕’In Hot Water: Inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef’
📕 ‘Churchill’s D-Day,’ Richard Dannatt & Allen Packwood
📕 ‘A Very Secret Trade: The dark story of the gentleman collectors in Tasmania,’ Cassandra Pybus

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