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Anna’s going on holidays after this evening’s Salon, and is faced with the difficult decision of what to read during her break. These four seem just right 📚💭🧡

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Anna has read & loved volume one of Solvej Balle’s septology, The Calculation of Volume: Tara Selter enters a break in time, as a result of which while she persists in progressive time, everyone around her wakes up to the 18th of November anew each morning with no memory of having lived it before.

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⚡️SALON NEWS ⚡️ Join us next week on Tuesday 6th May for a group Salon featuring readings by Alison J Barton, Eva Birch, Luke Horton, Madeleine Ryan and Marion Taffe! Spaces are limited so please RSVP to: [email protected]

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Just in! New tote bags featuring illustrations by The Paperback’s Ben Juers! For the two-colour print, we’ve gone autumnal. And also, have some single colour totes in green. Screen-printed locally at Too Far Gone 🙏🍃🍂

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Don’t miss our May Salon, featuring readings from Alison J Barton, Eva Birch, Luke Horton, Madeleine Ryan and Marion Taffe. When: 6pm Tuesday 6th May Where: downstairs at Bard’s Apothecary RSVP to [email protected] Can’t wait to see you there! 💙

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We’ll be closed on Good Friday and Easter Sunday but open every other day this weekend and next. What will you be reading over the long weekend (if you’re fortunate enough to get it)? Here’s Anna’s absurdly ambitious pile. However you celebrate, read well 🧡

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Briefly back in stock: Renee Gladman’s To After That. Anna read & loved this book earlier in the month. It’s Gladman’s reflection on the novella she didn’t finish. But it’s also about time and place, and the difference between writing and painting, and between fiction and nonfiction, & other things.

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Anna has read & loved (& quietly wept over) Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend, one of those novels that reads more like a personal essay than fiction, and which interrogates the genre in the process of telling a story.

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Just two weeks to go until we help to launch Josephine Rowe’s beautiful new novel, Little World. Josephine will be in conversation with Anna MacDonald. We’d love to see you there. When: 6pm Tuesday 29 April Where: downstairs at Bard’s Apothecary RSVP to [email protected] 📚🍷📚

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What better to accompany a sexy city Saturday than gritty semi-autobiographical femme fiction. Georgie recommends turning to 1970s Tokyo, with Izumi Suzuki’s Set My Heart On Fire, or, to 1960s Paris, with Albertine Sarrazin’s Astragal. Cheers to those curled up with a book on Saturday evening xxx

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The second book in our Autumn Subscription goes out to lucky subscribers today. It is (of course) a beauty 💌

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She’s arrived!!! Sharon Kivland’s follow up to ABÉCÉDAIRE is finally here. Described by Danielle Dutton as ‘a durational delight’, this is a book about time and place and, like Kivland’s other work, promises to be an expansive, mind-altering reading experience.

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We closed a bit early tonight, sorry! But our online store is always open, and we’ll be back in the shop from 9.30 tomorrow morning 🧡

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resist if you can (personally, I can’t)

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Just in! Issue 3 of the local art magazine Memo Review. This issue: Art & Crime 🧨

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New books, new editions, plenty of new ideas 😍

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This was an Anna recommendation @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social a few months ago, & as ever she was right on the money. A beautiful dual portrait as well as tribute, & bound to lead me back to Berger’s work…

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We have exciting event news!! We’re thrilled to be hosting the launch of Josephine Rowe’s highly-anticipated new novel, Little World, on Tuesday 29th April. Check out our website for details: paperbackbooks.com.au/pages/4779-S...

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It’s a beautiful day on Bourke St today, made all the better by Prototype’s exceedingly handsome reissues of Kate Zambreno’s pair Book of Mutter and Appendix Project. If you love fragmentary, associative, genre-bending books, then these are for you 💙

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Just in! Classics from Allison Miriam Smith & Brandon Taylor’s new imprint Smith & Taylor! 🕺

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Anna is reading & loving Mountainish by Zsuzsanna Gahse, trans. Katy Derbyshire. This is a strange, witty, curiously compelling book and I’m loving it 🏔️

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We’ll be closing a little early tonight at 6:00pm (apologies for any inconvenience). But, will be back tomorrow morning for book chats and browsing! 📚

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New releases and re-stocks featuring hip-hop bios, AI, new HEAT, beautiful editions from Mandylion Press and more! 👁️

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We’re having a staff meeting this morning, so we’ll open a little later than usual - depending on how long it takes Sally to fill us in about PJ Harvey’s visit. ☺️

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SHE’S BACK!!! And you know she won’t last, so get in quick 🐻

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Beverley Farmer’s A Body of Water - her chronicle of one year, which is also her way of writing against a period of isolation & creative sterility - is back in stock. It pairs beautifully with @giramondobooks.bsky.social’s reissue of Farmer’s 1992 novel, The Seal Woman. 💙

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Yep, we’re open every day this long weekend: Saturday & Sunday as normal, Monday from 11am to 6pm. What will you be reading? Anna recommends Teju Cole for the morning (one essay a day before breakfast, as a rule) and Zsuzsanna Gahse towards evening. 🏔️

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A pleasure to have Rachel Kushner in this morning signing copies of her novel, ‘Creation Lake’! And, for a good chat about Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Bela Tarr and grim humour. 🙏🪗

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The first book in our Autumn Subscription is now available to pick up (postage orders heading to the post office today)! Thanks so much to all of our subscribers - we hope you enjoy it! 🍂🙏

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MARCH SALON 🍷 Tomorrow night, 6pm at Bard’s Apothecary. RSVP to [email protected]. We’d love to see you there 💙

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Our February bestsellers, in no particular order 😍

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Next Tuesday, we kick off our 2025 Salon Series with an evening of reading & conversation with Dani Netherclift, who will be talking about her debut, Vessel. When: 6pm Tuesday 4th March Where: downstairs at Bard’s Apothecary RSVP to [email protected] 💙

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Arrived this morning to find out light box sign restored 😍

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Anna has read & loved Elaine Scarry’s On Beauty and Being Just. An extended essay that began as a lecture, this is Scarry’s response to, and her argument against, the contemporary suspicion of beauty.

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Back in stock 🔥

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Sometimes it’s worth working late just to see what comes out of the next box. (Too much Hervé Guibert is never enough.) 📦😍

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In preparation for our first Salon of the year, Anna is reading & loving Dani Netherclift’s debut, Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies. When: 6pm Tuesday 4th March Where: downstairs at Bard’s Apothecary RSVP to [email protected] We’d love to see you there 💙

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New & recent delights 😍

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Georgie has just read and loved Catherine Airey’s entrancing debut Confessions. Initially taking place in New York immediately post 9/11 and then moving back to 1980s Ireland - Confessions is an exploration of the multigenerational experiences of four women of the same family.💚💖💜

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Anna is reading & loving Hervé Guibert’s Ghost Image, which can be read as one fragmented essay, or sixty-three short ones, about the nature and practice of photography, especially as it relates to memory, identity, fantasy, and seduction. 📸👻

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A pleasure to have Robert Lukins drop by the shop for a chat and to sign copies of his new novel ‘Somebody Down There Likes Me’! 🙏📚

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Anna has read & loved Martin Amis’s The Information. The story of a friendship gone sour, this is without doubt the funniest book I have ever read and the only one I’ve ever finished and then turned immediately back to page one to begin again.

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🍷 SALON NEWS 🍷 On Tuesday 4th March, we’ll kick off this year’s Salon Series with an evening of reading & conversation with Dani Netherclift. When: 6pm Tuesday 4th March Where: Bard’s Apothecary RSVP to [email protected] We’d love to see you there 💙

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The final book in our Summer Subscription is now available to pick up (and is heading to the post today)! Thanks so much to all of our subscribers - we hope you enjoy it! 🙏☀️

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This beautiful anniversary edition is just in 😍

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Anna is reading & loving another in the David Zwirner ekphrasis series: Marcel Proust’s essay, Chardin & Rembrandt. This is a beautiful homage to the power of commonplace objects & people, & the ways in which looking at paintings can enhance our experience of the world beyond the canvas.

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Picked this up from @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social yesterday. Used to have the US edition so this is a got-to-have replacement. Starts historically with the Velvets and Warhol in hilarious (and sometimes horrific) Prologue...

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Our Autumn Subscription is now live 🍂 Check out our website for more info, or have a chat with us next time you’re in the shop. Numbers are strictly limited - we have 20 subscriptions left. Leaves are turning, botanical gardens are calling, good light, good weather & good books are on the way. 📚🧡

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Yup! We’re open tomorrow from 11am - 6pm for book browsing, recommendations & chats! 👍

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