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... 🖤

Interesting new and newly reissued nonfiction 👀

✨AUGUST SALON ✨ Join us at 6pm Tuesday 5th of August to hear Michaela Sahhar speaking about her family memoir Find Me at the Jaffa Gate with our guest conversationalist, artist and writer Sary Zananiri. Spaces are limited to please RSVP to [email protected]

Georgie has read and loved Black Vodka, a collection of Deborah Levy’s short stories. Being a loyalist for Levy’s non-fiction, reading her incisive perceptions in short fiction format is just as satisfying. 🖤 Also Levy’s essays, The Position of Spoons, have just come out in paperback :)

A pleasure to have Michael Farrell in the shop for an excellent chat and to sign copies of his short story collection ‘The Victoria Principle’! 🙏

Some of the new releases and re-stocks from this week! 📚👀

Just in! For the first time in English, a 1985 novella from Marlen Haushofer, author of Paperback favourite The Wall! 👀

Inundated by red and white penguins ! New archive series in store

Yesterday, Anna spent a delightful couple of hours reading E. L. Konigsburg’s From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, in which Claudia and her brother, Jamie, run away from home, move into the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and have various adventures, some of them art-historical. 🖼️

Just in! Heat 20 & Debris #5. This issue of Heat features writing from Max Easton, Dani Netherclift, Eliot Weinberger, Mariana Enriquez and more. While Debris, guest edited by Jazz Money and Mariam Ella Arcilla features writers including George Haddad, Sara M Salem and Angelita Biscotti. 🔥👀

There’s a theme emerging in the new releases. ✊

The second book in our Winter Subscription is ready for pick-up (and is heading to the post today). Thanks to all of our subscribers - we hope you enjoy it! 🏂

It’s been a big week of new releases! Here’s a glance at our refreshed NR shelf 👀

Two of Anna’s favourites. Finally back in stock 💕

It does wash up nicely on a grey day 😍

What a delight to listen to Kate Kruimink speak about her wonderful novella, Astraea, with Robert this evening. Thank you so much to everyone who joined us 🖤

What a treat to have Katherine Brabon in the shop today to sign copies of her beautiful new novel, Cure. On Thursday we’ll be hosting the launch of Cure. We’d love to see you there. When: 6pm Thursday 3rd July Where: Bard’s Apothecary RSVP to [email protected]

We’re beside ourselves with excitement. These beautiful new Verso editions of John Berger’s books have finally arrived. (Anna particularly recommends Hold Everything Dear.)

Did you know we have postcards at the counter? 💌

Just one week to go until our July Salon with Kate Kruimink. We’d love to see you there! When: 6pm Tuesday 1st July Where: downstairs at Bard’s Apothecary RSVP to [email protected] 📚🍷📚

A small selection for those seeking hope, inspiration, an echo or an outlet for their rage 🖤

Back in stock. The very best weekend reading.

We’re closing at 5pm today, sorry folks. But until then (and from 9.30am tomorrow) we’re open and we have a lot of books. 🧡