Staff Picks
The Neighbourhood Books Team
Neighbourhood books is a proudly independent general bookshop serving the inner north of Melbourne since 2018. Their sister store, The Little Bookroom, in Fitzroy North is only 1.6kms away!
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The Complete Eightball 1-18 by Daniel Clowes
$82.95 AUD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes' name even before he gained fame as a bestselling graphic novelist (Ghost World, Patience, David Boring, Ice Haven) and screenwriter. From 1989 to 1997, he produced 18 issues of what is still widely considered one of the greatest and most influe ...Show more
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2 by Deborah Levy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography | Series: Living Autobiography Ser.
Longlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction From the twice-Booker-shortlisted author comes a witty and audacious examination of writing and womanhood "Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it toge ...Show more
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' - Guardian
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi, Speculative & Fantasy | Series: The Roots of Chaos Ser.
An enthralling, epic fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons - and the women who must lead the fight to save it. A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conc ...Show more
The Spiral by Iain Ryan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It's not just the truth that lurks at the bottom of the spiral...the utterly original and brilliantly compelling new thriller by the twice Ned Kelly Award shortlisted Iain Ryan. Erma Bridges' life is far from perfect, but entirely ordinary. So when she is shot twice in a targeted attack by a colleague, ...Show more
The Strip by Iain Ryan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime
When a local doctor is brutally murdered, Detective Constable Lana Cohen joins Strike Force Diablo on the notorious Gold Coast, where she finds herself navigating a world of chaos and corruption. As she delves deeper into the case, Lana reluctantly pairs up with Henry Loch, a detective with a tarnished ...Show more
The World Was Whole by Fiona Wright
$29.95 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
The follow-up to Fiona Wright's essay collection Small Acts of Disappearance, - winner of the Nita B. Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for Non-fiction shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the NSW Premier's Award for Non-fiction. Our bodies and homes are our shelters, each one intimately a ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux
$35.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Shortlisted Man Booker International 2019 Winner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of workWinner of the 2016 Strega European Prize Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years was a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008, and ...Show more
The Yield: Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award by Tara June Winch
$22.99 AUD
Category: Leesa's Neighbourhood Favourites
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the w ...Show more
Tracks by Robyn Davidson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Anniversary Edition
A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback 'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.' S ...Show more
Voices In The Evening by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this elegant novel, a young unmarried woman conveys the tragedies, loves, and social entanglements of a village at the time of fascism, war and postwar urbanization.
Argosy by Bella Li
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Drawing inspiration from the surrealist collage novels of Max Ernst, Bella Li's debut full-length collection Argosy is an arresting and utterly unique assemblage of poetry, collage and photography. In two parts, the book engages with themes of travel and exploration, language and loss, identity and orig ...Show more