The first of or Summer Subscription books has arrived and will go out to lucky subscribers next week. 😀 We have a few left up for grabs, so if you want one don’t wait!! paperbackbooks.com.au/pages/6979-T...

It’s the 18th of November. Are you ready to live it … again?

Our Summer Subscription is now available for purchase 😎 paperbackbooks.com.au/pages/6979-T...

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

We’ve put all the books we’ve most loved reading in 2025 in the one place on our website so that you can browse to your heart’s content. paperbackbooks.com.au/c/our-favour...

In preparation for next Tuesday’s Salon, Anna is reading and loving Antonia Pont’s fabulous and thought-provoking book, Plain Life. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/antonia-po...

We’ve been busy prepping and refreshing the staff recco table to reflect the books - new and old - that we’ve most enjoyed reading so far this year and which we’ll be recommending to you over the summer. We love books. And we love these books in particular 🖤

They have arrived 🍄

Yep! We’re open today from 11am - 6pm. 📚

It was lovely to have Sofie Laguna and Kate Mildenhall in the shop on this sun-soaked day to sign copies of their respective books The Underworld and The Hiding Place☀️

Georgie has read and loved Miriam Webster’s The Slip, ten stories set around Melbourne. A concoction of stories that are fun, sometimes ridiculous, precise, familiar enough to draw you in yet absurd enough to keep you there. Highly recommend

A pleasure to have Madeleine Gray in the shop this morning to sign copies of her new novel, Chosen Family 📚🙏

We never miss a chance to take a photo of the shop looking cosy on a rainy day. Plus, on the shelves we have new releases from Australian indie publisher Vagabond Books! 🌫️📚

Nothing like a refreshed side window! 📚👀

We have a very special Salon coming up in a couple of weeks: a conversation between two of our favourite authors, Vanessa Berry & Sharon Kivland. Find out more: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/vanessa-be...

She has arrived 💙💙💙

Congratulations to László Krasznahorkai, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and long-time resident on The Paperback staff reco table👌

The second book in our Spring Subscription is now available for pick up (& is heading to the post today)! Thank you to all our subscribers - we hope you enjoy it 🙏

Anna has read and loved and is thrilled finally to be able to share with you Vanessa Berry’s new book, Calendar, a beautiful account of one year told through Berry’s daily encounters with the objects around her. This book is a joy to read.

Anna has read & loved Carol Mavor’s Serendipity. This is a treasure trove of a book, impossible to summarise, which I know I’ll return to again and again. 🦋

Anna has read & loved Adrian Duncan’s new novel, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth.

New release time?! Oh yeah, the NR shelf is packed! And there’s still more to come…📚👀

On Tuesday 7th October at 6pm (next week!) we’ll be hosting our first screening at Eclipse Cinema. We’re starting with one of our favourite bookshop films, Joan Micklin Silver’s Crossing Delancey (1988). Book here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/paperback-...

Some of the beautiful gift cards currently in stock and on display in the shop 👀✍️

Yep, our hearts and minds and our door are open tomorrow 11am to 6pm (and as usual for the rest of the weekend). 💕

Some firm favourites. Finally back in stock ✨

Just in! New issue of hip-hop zine Puff Down! Issue #4 features a transcription of an interview with Pennsylvania rapper Crownovhornz. Each issue comes with a holographic Crown sticker & PD sticker. Riso-printed by Glom Press. 👀📌

Anna has been reading & loving The Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle (translated from the Danish by Barbara J. Haveland).

We have new Sunday trading hours! From this Sunday (21st September) we’ll be open every Sunday from 11am to 6pm. ⏰

After scanning 11, 187 books during stocktake yesterday. We’re back open as usual! 📚⚡️

Thank you to everyone who bought a fundraiser tote! All post orders are wrapped and will be sent tomorrow 🍉🙏

We’ve been putting it off… but it has to be done! Closed tomorrow for stocktake. How many books do we have in the shop? Put in your guesses now! 📚🤔

Our fundraiser totes are in stock and available for pick-up! All postage orders will be sent over the next few days too. Thanks so much to everyone who bought a tote and supported this fundraiser 🍉🙏! Screen-printed by the mighty Too Far Gone in Preston

Anna has read & loved Asta Olivia Nordenhof’s Money to Burn, which recounts the life histories of Maggie and Kurt in beautifully looping chapters that zoom in and then out of each character and give a remarkably deep sense of two ordinary lives in only 150 pages.

New additions from a visit to @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social yesterday.

Unfashionably late to the party as always, yesterday Anna inhaled the first half of Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk, a brilliant portrait of an hysteric, and also of emergent desire. Perfect reading for the weirdly warm turn in the weather. No spoilers please. 🐙

Wait, New Releases again? Oh yeah, again and again! 📦📚

The first book in our Spring Subscription is ready to pick up (& is heading to the post today)! This one had some recent media coverage…👀 We hope you enjoy it! 🙏

Anna’s going home with Carol Mavor’s Serendipity this weekend. After her MIFF Chantal Akerman marathon, she serendipitously opened the book onto a still from Je tu il elle, so ….

Anna has recently read & loved Gillian Rose’s memoir, Love’s Work.

Our very full, refreshed New Release shelf! ✨

One of Anna’s favourites, finally back in stock. Perfect for the crisp but sunny turn. There’s no better weather for pond (or armchair) swimming 🏊‍♀️

The first book in our Spring Subscription has arrived and will go out to lucky subscribers in the first week of September 🌱 There are only four subscriptions left, so get in super quick if you don’t want to miss out. Book mail is the best mail 💌 paperbackbooks.com.au/pages/6979-T...

Our Spring Subscription is now live (and as of this moment we have 16 left, so get in quick). Spring’s coming, and with it good books 🌱 paperbackbooks.com.au/pages/6979-T...

Just in! Sheets of beautiful handmade paper from Kami! 🎁

A pleasure to have Patrick Lenton drop by the shop for a chat and to sign copies of his first novel ‘In Spite of You’. 🙏

One of Anna’s favourites from 2023, now available in paperback. Yes, it’s about living, happily, alone. But also - more so - it’s a book about friendship.

Our recently re-stocked new release shelf! Featuring copies of Miles Franklin winner Siang Lu’s Ghost Cities! 👀

We’re excited to be stocking the cook book Student Bites, a collaboration between Just Food Collective - a not-for-profit making real-world impact in the food system - and Open Table - a food relief charity based in Melbourne. Nutritious, delicious and about of fun 🥟🤤

Today we’re launching the first in what we hope will be a series of fundraising tote bags. All proceeds from the sale of this first bag (that is the full $15 not just the profits) will go to the World Food Programme Palestine Emergency Appeal. paperbackbooks.com.au/p/fundraiser... 🖤