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 Road to the City by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.' - Guardian Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is 17, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in the city and silk stockings. To escape her father's neglect and her mother's sadness, she begi ...Show more
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
It is 2019 in America, All Souls Day, when the borderline that separates the living from the dead is most porous. Recently released from a decades-long prison sentence, Tookie - a headstrong and deeply wronged Ojibwe woman with a chequered past - must make a life for herself in a changed, charged world. ...Show more
The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot by Yolande Strengers; Jenny Kennedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
The life and times of the Smart Wife--feminized digital assistants who are friendly and sometimes flirty, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. Meet the Smart Wife--at your service, an eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices. This digital assistant is friendly and some ...Show more
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
An inventive, cacophonous novel about an Aboriginal girl living in a future world turned upside down--where ancient myths exist side-by-side with present-day realities. Oblivia Ethelyne was given her name by an old woman who found her deep in the bowels of a gum tree, tattered and fragile, the victi ...Show more
The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Description: The Weight of Things is the first book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007), and the first to be translated into English. After winning acclaim with this novel - awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978 - she embarked on a brilliant and ambitious literary project called 'The Fortres ...Show more
Theory of Colours by Bella Li
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Theory of Colours takes as its title and point of departure the influential nineteenth-century treatise on colour by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. In Li’s third full-length collection, colour — and its absence — is at once subject, structural principle and medium. Moving from the distant past, through the fle ...Show more
This is How You Lose the Time War: The epic time-travelling love story and Twitter sensation by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi, Speculative & Fantasy
Co-written by two award-winning writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent ...Show more
Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki
$19.99 AUD
Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
With an introduction by Sunday Times bestselling author Victoria Hislop 'That summer we bought big straw hats. Maria's had cherries around the rim, Infanta's had forget-me-nots, and mine had poppies as red as fire. . .' Three Summers is a warm and tender tale of three sisters growing up in the countrys ...Show more
Tissue by Madison Griffiths
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What does it mean to terminate a pregnancy? In Tissue, Madison Griffiths turns her keen eye to the topic of abortion in a meditative and personal look at a procedure that is common yet vilified, championed yet sometimes grieved. Tissue looks at the feelings of guilt around choice, exploring the languag ...Show more
Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocene by Jonathan Strahan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi, Speculative & Fantasy
Twelve visions of living in a climate-changed world.We are living in the Anthropocene-an era of dramatic and violent climate change featuring warming oceans, melting icecaps, extreme weather events, habitat loss, species extinction, and more. What will life be like in a climate-changed world? In Tomorro ...Show more
Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector
$45.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Between 1967 and 1977, Clarice Lispector wrote weekly dispatches from her desk in Rio for the Jornal de Brasil. Already famous for her revolutionary, interior, metaphysical novels, in her Chronicles she turns h ...Show more
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
You can't choose your family, but they make choices for you. 'Wise, provocative and wildly endearing' - Guardian 'Readably juicy and surreptitiously smart' - Barbara Kingsolver THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Rosemary doesn't talk much, and about certain things she's silent. She had a sister, Fern, her whir ...Show more