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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Talking to Women by Nell Dunn
$27.95 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
Description: In 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about men, sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. After more than forty years out of print, Talking to Women is still as sparkling, honest, profound, funny and wise as when it was first published.
The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay
$22.99 AUD
Category: Leesa's Neighbourhood Favourites
WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD A SUNDAY TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed grandma Jean has never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working ...Show more
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper
$22.99 AUD
Category: Leesa's Neighbourhood Favourites
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as fire ...Show more
The Best 100 Poems of Gwen Harwood by Gwen Harwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A must-have collection from one of Australia's finest poets'The outstanding Australian poet of the twentieth century' -Peter Porter O could one write as one makes lovewhen all is given and nothing kept,then language might put by at lastits coy elisions and ineptwithdrawals, yield, and yielding castaside ...Show more
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and ...Show more
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
$22.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
The extraordinary novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatri ...Show more
The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel <i>The Day of the Triffids</i> to moderate acclaim. Nearly seventy years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by <i>The Times</i> (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.” Bill Mas ...Show more
The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD by N. K. Jemisin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi, Speculative & Fantasy | Series: The Broken Earth Trilogy
Winner of the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel Book 1 in the record-breaking triple Hugo-Award-winning trilogy ***A New York Times Notable Book*** ***Shortlisted for the World Fantasy, Nebula, Kitschies, Audie and Locus Awards*** ***The inaugural Wired.com book club pick*** THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS ...Show more
The Furies: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2023 by Mandy Beaumont
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Cynthia was just about to turn sixteen when the unthinkable happened. Her mother was taken away by the police, and her father left without a word three months later. After that night, Cynthia began to walk in slow circles outside the family home looking for traces of her sister Mallory - she's sure tha ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerv ...Show more
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton; Jennifer Egan (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Born in 1862 into an exclusive New York society against whose rigid mores she often rebelled, Edith Wharton bridged the literary worlds of two continents and two centuries in her rich and glamorous life. The House of Mirth (1905), her tenth book, is the story of young Lily Bart and her tragic sojourn am ...Show more
The Promise by Damon Galgut
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. A taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the ever-diminishing family together, each of the four parts opens with a death and a new decade. The characterisations are razor sharp, the dia ...Show more