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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Big Bosoms and Square Jaws - The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film by Jimmy McDonough
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Russ Meyer, cult hero, creator of the sexploitation film, and the man the Wall Street Journal called the King Leer of Hollywood, made movies that filled the big screen with "big bosoms and square jaws." In the first candid and fiendishly researched account of the late cinematic instigator's life, Jimmy ...Show more
Blueberries by Ellena Savage
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Blueberries could be described as a collection of essays, the closest term available for a book that resists classification; a blend of personal essay, polemic, prose poetry, true-crime journalism and confession that considers a fragmented life, reflecting on what it means to be a woman, a body, an arti ...Show more
Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
MILES FRANKLIN AWARD WINNER 2022 Jennifer Down cements her status as a leading light of Australian literary fiction in this heart-rending and intimate saga of one woman's turbulent life So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or- he'd found Maggie.I had no wa ...Show more
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A New York Times 'Notable Book of 2020' One of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female Authors' 'A sharply observed and heartbreaking portrait of what it means to be a woman, in Japan and beyond' -Time, 'The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020' 'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami, author of The Wind-up Bird Chron ...Show more
Bush Birds (HB) by Helen Milroy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Staff Picks
From the author of the bestselling Backyard series, Helen Milroy's latest book helps young readers better observe their local birds when out for a walk in the bush.'Little birds, big birds, all different kinds. How many bush birds can you find?'From curious blue wrens to booming emus, and from feasting ...Show more
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
The surprise hit of the summer and winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Convenience Store Woman is the incomparable story of Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident who has been working at the Hiiromachi "Smile Mart" for the past eighteen years. Keiko has never fit in, neither in ...Show more
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: A Key To All Mythologies 1
Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads – the first instalment of the trilogy A Key to All Mythologies – is the stunning foundation of a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family navigate the political and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years A Daily M ...Show more
Dog Songs by Mary Oliver
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming' -- Boston Globe In Dog Songs, Mary Oliver celebrates the special bond between human and dog, as understood through her connection to the dogs who across the years accompanied her on her daily walks, warmed ...Show more
Doom Patrol by Rachel Pollack Omnibus by Rachel Pollack; Linda Medley (Illustrator)
$200.00 AUD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
Science-fiction author Rachel Pollack brings her unique and inventive sensibility to DC's weirdest super-team! This massive hardcover collects her entire Doom Patrol run for the first time. Starting in 1989, Doom Patrol evolved into something truly bizarre-and brilliant-with some of the most unique ide ...Show more
Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Must a girl always be a part?How can she become a whole?In the late 1970s, in the forgotten outer suburbs, a girl has her hands in the engine of a Holden. A sinister new man has joined the family. He works as a mechanic and operates an unlicensed repair shop at the back of their block.The family is unde ...Show more
Freeman's Change by John Freeman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Magazines & Journals
Featuring thrilling new work from Lauren Groff, Ocean Vuong, Sayaka Murata and more, the latest installment of the acclaimed literary journal Freeman's explores the hope and pain of the ever-changing present.
Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'A really beautiful book about obsession, longing and science' RAVEN LEILANI'Wise, funny, suspenseful' JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER'Sardonic and strange ... With its dark humour and loopy lyricism, it bewitches' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Reads like a botanist's cross-breeding of The Secret History and Department of Specu ...Show more