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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Oh No, George! by Chris Haughton
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Bold, hilarious artwork captures the innocent charm of affable George, a dog who is trying to be good -- with disastrous results.George is a dog with all the best intentions. And his owner, Harry, has all the best hopes that George will be a well-behaved dog when he leaves him alone for the day. But whe ...Show more
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's hi ...Show more
Orphan Road by Andrew Nette
$27.99 AUD
Category: Books by Neighbours
Gary Chance is an ex-Australian army driver and nightclub bouncer turned professional thief and in need of a job. An offer comes from a former employer, once notorious Melbourne social identity, now aging owner of a failing S&M club, Vera Leigh. A shadowy real estate developer is trying to squeeze ...Show more
Outline: A Novel (Outline trilogy #1) by Rachel Cusk
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Outline Trilogy
Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from ...Show more
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
$21.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a lesbian best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Rio ...Show more
People from My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami
$24.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction
From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction. Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you eat, let it w ...Show more
Pharmacopoeia - A Dungeness Notebook by Derek Jarman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography | Series: Vintage Classics
'I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the wall, to stake the rose. The garden had begun. I saw it as a therapy and a pharmacopoeia.' In 1986 artist and filmmaker, Derek Jarman, bought Prospect Cottage, a Victorian fish ...Show more
Radiance by Catherynne M Valente
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi, Speculative & Fantasy
Severin Unck is the headstrong young daughter of a world famous film director. She has inherited her father's love of the big screen but not his exuberant gothic style of filmmaking. Instead, Severin makes documentaries, artful and passionate and even rather brave - for she is a realist in a fantastic a ...Show more
Room for a Stranger by Melanie Cheng
$22.99 AUD
Category: Leesa's Neighbourhood Favourites
By the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, 2018. Since her sister died, Meg has been on her own. She doesn't mind, not really--not with Atticus, her African grey parrot, to keep her company--but after her house is broken into by a knife-wielding intruder, she decides it might b ...Show more
Sharing by Aunty Fay Muir, Sue Lawson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Age range: 3 to 6.When we share, there is plenty for all. A tender, thoughtful story with a gentle reminder of all the ways sharing makes us stronger.Sharing is the third book in the award-winning Our Place series (Respect, 2020 and Family, 2020) that introduces children to First Nations philosophies th ...Show more
Sincerity by Carol Ann Duffy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Her final collection as Poet Laureate, a frank, disarming and deeply moving exploration of loss and remembrance in their many forms. Presented in a beautiful, foiled package, this will be the poetry book of the year."Carol Ann Duffy is arguably the nation's favourite living poet." (Jeanette Winterson) ...Show more
Space Invaders by Nona Fernandez
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'A small jewel of a book . . . Fernndez's picturesque language and dream-like atmosphere is well worth being invaded by. A book to slip in the pocket to read and reread.' - Patti Smith Preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions, a group of friends look back on their childhood. Their dreams circle their ...Show more