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We are open Monday to Friday, 9am – 5:30pm, Saturday 9am – 5pm, and Sunday 10am – 3pm.

From Monday 21 to Wednesday 23 December: 9am – 6pm.
Thursday 24 December (Christmas Eve): 9am – 5pm.
From Friday 25 December (Christmas Day) to Sunday 3 January: CLOSED

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– Please use the hand sanitiser
– Practice social distancing
– Keep your visit short and be considerate of others
– Parents: supervise your children and keep toddlers in prams

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There’s only a few days left to register for the

There’s only a few days left to register for the @geelonglibraries event on short fiction, featuring three stellar contributors to the @kyd_magazine New Fiction anthology: @laurahelenmb, @elizabethflux and @jacky_vening. The online conversation takes place next Wednesday evening, 27 January, and will be hosted by our very own @domesticshorthaired. Register via the Geelong Library’s website. 😊😊

Essential reading for big and small ahead of Austr

Essential reading for big and small ahead of Australia Day/Invasion Day next week. A really powerful and beautifully illustrated new picture book and educational resource by @amymcquire_ and @matt.chun. We’ve got plenty of copies in store so pop by, grab one, and start a conversation.

Book Bird Charlotte delved into some nature writin

Book Bird Charlotte delved into some nature writing during the break, finally knocking off a classic of the genre: ‘Landmarks’ by Robert Macfarlane. ‘Landmarks’ makes the argument that language shapes the way we experience place, and that the specificity of certain terms to describe hills, valleys, or ‘heughs’ (a damp dip in a field) constitutes a form of attention, a way to value the land we walk on. Each essay in the collection introduces a glossary of lost words that Macfarlane believes we should resurrect to pay respect to our natural spaces, in all their complexity. Robert Macfarlane is an English nature writer and so his focus is on Britain and languages like Gaelic. Out of the entire book, however, Charlotte’s favourite new term is one Macfarlane’s son coined himself: ‘current-bum’, which refers to a rise in a creek or stream where the water flows over a rock, branch etc. 😂

Mitchell Toy’s first book, The Midnight City, wa

📚 SMALL PUBLISHER GIVEAWAY 📚 To kick of 2021

📚 SMALL PUBLISHER GIVEAWAY 📚 To kick of 2021 at The Book Bird, we have a mighty good stack of books from our small publisher friends to give away. In this bundle are books from @affirmpress, @transitloungepublishing and @fremantlepress, three of our fave Australian indies doing great things. The books in this giveaway are: ‘There’s Only One Mum Like You’ and ‘There’s Only One Friend Like You’ by @jessesmess; ‘At the Dog Park’ by @moiracourt; ‘Sing Me the Sunmer’ by @janiegodwin and @alisonlesterbooks; ‘Doom Creek’ by Alan Carter; ‘Death Leaves the Station’ by @alexanderthought; ‘Everything in its Right Place’ by Tobias McCorkell; ‘Broken Rules and Other Stories’ by Barry Lee Thompson; ‘The 50 Greatest Australian Cricketers’ by @liebcricket; ‘It Happened in a Holden’ by Paddy O’Reilly; and ‘The History of Mischief’ by @rebeccahiggieauthor. 📚 TO ENTER: Make sure you’re following The Book Bird and tag a friend in the comments below. Comp drawn Sat 16 January. Usual rules apply: no swapsies; pick up from the shop. 📚

Josh’s summer reading doesn’t exactly scream “Beach Read”, so we guess it’s a good thing we had all that rain! Josh gives a big thumbs up to ‘Shuggie Bain’ by Douglas Stuart. He writes, ‘Poor Shuggie. His mother’s crippling alcohol dependency is driving her family away one by one, and it looks like Shuggie will be the only one left to save her. 2020’s Man Booker Prize Winner is a poignant portrayal of a mother’s and son’s futile struggles to escape themselves. Stuart’s depiction of a mining town in 1980s Glasgow is bleak, and his character’s are often vile - but this novel, like Shuggie himself, is tender at heart.’

Glenn Murcutt’s introduction to Philip Hughes’

Glenn Murcutt’s introduction to Philip Hughes’ work says it best, describing Hughes as an artist with a ‘topographer’s eye,’ and someone who defines topography as reading the beauty of contours. Philip Hughes hails from the UK, but has often returned to Australia as part of his ongoing fascination with and respect for this land. Hughes’ work is not only a celebration of the Australian landscape, but a critique of European intervention into natural and sacred places (mines, for instance, and quarries), and the effects of climate change. In Hughes’ own words: ‘I aim to create paintings that inspire ways of looking...[and] express the different ways one can see the land.’ ➡️ Swipe for a sneak peek inside this incredible monograph.

‘Dogs on Doorsteps’, ON OUR DOORSTEP! ... (Oka

‘Dogs on Doorsteps’, ON OUR DOORSTEP! ... (Okay, look, that seemed cleverer in our heads...) 🐶 LOVE this photography book by @suzannestevensonphotography, who, during lockdown, took portraits of pups at home with their humans. Including little profiles on each dog, ‘Dogs on Doorsteps’ is a celebration of those loyal furry friends who kept us company during such a tough time. 🐶 Swipe for some very good doggos ➡️

Over the break, Book Bird Rhett devoured Richard F

Over the break, Book Bird Rhett devoured Richard Flanagan’s ‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams’ and wrote this review card for our shelves: ‘Three children refuse to let their mother die, even as the end is inevitable and their own lives seem to be vanishing. A thoughtful, angry novel about humanity’s failure to act in the light of extinction. It’s devastating, powerful, a little magical, and very hard to put down.’ • We shared some of your holiday reading adventures in our stories yesterday but got SO many replies we couldn’t repost them all! Continue sharing your reading reccs in the comments below ⬇️😀

As you probably know from our previous posts, we’ve been developing our taste for beautiful, collectable editions of classic books. We have a number of stunning cloth-bound and (faux) leather-bound titles in our collection, plus now a bunch of new paperbacks with vibrant artworks on the cover. Pictured here is a number of Virginia Woolf’s novels featuring cover art by Aino-Maija Metsola, a Helsinki-based painter and illustrator. • Swipe for close-ups of each of the Virginia Woolf series we have in stock.

• Looking forward to virtual bookselling at @gee

• Looking forward to virtual bookselling at @geelonglibraries’ Australian short fiction event later in Jan. Featuring three writers from the latest @kyd_magazine short story anthology and hosted by our very own @domesticshorthaired, this online event will explore the work of @elizabethflux, @jacky_vening and @laurahelenmb, three stellar Aussie writers working across different modes. • Register to attend via the @geelonglibraries website and purchase your copy of the anthology via our online shop OR in the flesh! • Background excellence courtesy of @boomgallery and @christopher_jewitt.

We are BACK readers, reopening this morning at 10a

We are BACK readers, reopening this morning at 10am for all your bookish needs. 📚 Our January hours are Monday to Saturday, 10am - 4pm, closed Sundays. Huge thanks to everyone who has placed an order through our online shop during the break - just give our Book Birds the day to catch up on orders and they’ll be ready for you. 📚 We’re looking forward to hearing what you read during the Christmas/New Year period and if you have any reading goals for 2021 🤩 🏆

Hello Readers, We hope you all had a magical Chris

Hello Readers,
We hope you all had a magical Christmas Day and spent Boxing Day, like us, with your feet up and a new book in your hands. We will be enjoying a break from now until Monday 4 January and will return with reduced hours in the new year. In January, we will be open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm (closed Sundays). Our online shop is still open for browsing but any purchases made during the break will be seen to when we get back. Big thanks, readers, for your unflagging support during a monstrous year; we simply couldn’t have done it without you. See you on the other side! The Book Birds.

It’s Christmas week and we are HERE for you. Not

It’s Christmas week and we are HERE for you. Note that we are extending our days Monday through Wednesday by half an hour to 6pm each night. Please also continue to flex your patience as we manage the flow of people through our doors. 📚 So many great books, so little time... come see us and get your gifts sorted!

💣 TRUTH BOMB 💣 A veritable tour de force of

💣 TRUTH BOMB 💣 A veritable tour de force of fierce, funny and fabulous women artists, compiled and introduced by Australian curator and Artistic Director of Third Drawer Down, Abigail Crompton. 💣 Third Drawer Down is an innovative design studio in Melbourne making art affordable and accessible and part of everyday encounters, and Crompton brings this ethos to her book. Discover new voices and be reminded of old favourites in Truth Bomb. Big love for this book.