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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 1d

She has arrived 💙💙💙

The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 1d

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

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 2d

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 🙏

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 10d

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

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 11d

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

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 12d

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-...

Paperback Bookshop x Eclipse Cinema: Crossing Delancey (USA, 1988)

Join us at Eclipse Cinema for a special screening of one of our favourite bookshop films: Crossing Delancey (USA, 1988).

www.eventbrite.com.au

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 13d

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

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 16d

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

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 17d

Some firm favourites. Finally back in stock ✨

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 18d

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. 👀📌

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 19d

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

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 24d

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

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 25d

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

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 27d

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

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 27d

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! 📚🤔

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · Sep 11

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

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · Sep 10

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · Sep 10

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.

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Gordon Duncan @gordunc44.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

Clockwise from top left. Covers of Seacraper by Benjamin Wood, Ruth by Kate Riley, Discipline by Randa Abdel-Fattah and The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem.

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · Sep 3

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! 🙏

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · Aug 29

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 ….

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