Apr 15, 2019
Favourite First Lines of Favourite Books
So turns out it’s very dangerous to read the first page of all your favourite books… I kept continuing to read and each time had to...
Apr 2, 2019
My most divisive bookclub picks…
As the years have been passing and I’m getting more experience running a book club I’m finding the best meetings are where we disagree on...
Mar 14, 2019
Author Spotlight: Oliver Sacks
For those of you who have never heard of Oliver Sacks (1933-2015), he blew into the literary scene in 1985 with his now classic and...
Mar 1, 2019
Ten books you might have missed but should read!
There are so many books in the world, sometimes you can't get through everything. So I'm recommending ten books I've read myself that I...
Feb 14, 2019
Author Spotlight: Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville is most well known for her historical Australian family drama 'The Secret River'. Written in 2005 it wasn’t her first...
Jan 31, 2019
Audience Participation Time!
We're well into 2019 now, but some books still have been hanging around in my subconscious from 2018. So with that in mind, what is still...
Jan 10, 2019
Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire vs S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders
Last year I read the new book by Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, as it feels like everyone has been requesting it. It was fascinating, full of...
Nov 26, 2018
Custard's Review of Books
Many people have seen photos of Custard, my fur-baby in the shop or on social media. And I thought for our final Blog post of the year, I...
Nov 1, 2018
Why, as an adult I love reading Young Adult Books
Lunchtime is my time to sit and read at the counter. Although people think that's what I do all the time, there's so many other things...
Sep 30, 2018
Books Set in Sydney
Lots of people who live in Sydney are not from Sydney originally (myself included). So sometimes it's really nice to read a fiction book...
