Yup! Here are our opening hours during Easter! See you on Saturday and Monday for browsing, book chats and reccos!🐰
The Paperback Bookshop
@paperbackbookshop.bsky.social
Keeping Melbourne in good books since the 1960s. 60 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC, Australia https://paperbackbooks.com.au
Coming up! Join us on Thursday April 9th at Coates Community Arts for a night of readings from authors Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle, Fiona Kelly McGregor, Liv Moriarty, John Morrissey, Helena Pantsis and Anna Poletti. 📚🍾 For more details and to book a spot: tinyurl.com/2eb86ct9
Upcoming Salon! Claire Thomas on her novel, ‘On Not Climbing Mountains’. Check our website for more info and to book a spot 🗻
New year, new Salon Series, and a brilliant new poster design from Robert. See you there ! paperbackbooks.com.au/pages/4779-S...
The second book in our Summer Subscription is available for pick up (& is heading to the post today). Thank you to all of our subscribers 🙏 We hope you enjoy it! 📦📚
It’s the newwww! New releases, restocks and new editions looking lovely ✨
The ultimate beach/book/towel/wet bathers bag. Designed by the Paperback’s Ben Juers and screen printed in cruisy summer colours by the mighty Too Far Gone. These colours have been popular! Also available in the subtle, yet still drippy plain teal 🌊
Yep, we’re open right up to 6pm on Christmas Eve and most days after that. Stay safe, read well, and enjoy feeling the sun on your back and the breeze in your hair. See you very soon ❤️
An absolute pleasure to have The Paris End drop by the shop to sign copies of their new book Exclusive! Dispatches from The Paris End 🙏🙏🙏
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?
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 🖤
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...
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. 🦋
