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The Bookshop Darlinghurst

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9331 1103

Address: 207 Oxford St Darlinghurst 2010 Sydney, NSW, Australia

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25.01.2022 Extended by popular demand! Make sure you drop by this must-see exhibition.

25.01.2022 Thanks for sharing Ben Mulchay. Hope you can come. It will be a terrific night . Tix below

25.01.2022 Tom of Finland + other new titles! - https://mailchi.mp/thebookshop.com.au/tom-finland-225573

24.01.2022 Were thrilled that Shuggie Bain has made the Man Booker Shortlist and so were celebrating all things Scottish today! https://www.thebookshop.com.au//kilty-pleasures-wall-cale/ #shuggiebain #manbookerprize #douglasstuart #gayscotland

24.01.2022 A new look for our website! - https://mailchi.mp/thebookshop.c/a-new-look-for-our-website

24.01.2022 Read and Recommended by Hendri: "Ending transgender intimate partner violence truly will take a village., write the editors of this volume, Adam M. Messinger and Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz. Nevertheless, as the fourteen chapters in this volume have demonstrated, such a task is not impossible, once a diverse group of service providers, researchers, activists, and community members come together to dismantle our assumptions on transgender intimate partner violence (IPV). Is law... and order always an effective means to address IPV? Why might calling the police be detrimental to the lives of transpeople who become the victims of IPV? Why do many transpeople keep staying in their abusive relationship? In what ways can service providers offer a trans-affirmative shelter and service that usually cater to female victims of intimate partner violence? How should community organisations design health care services that can address transgender survivors of IPV? These are some of the important questions addressed critically in all the chapters that are written in an accessible fashion to a wider audience, ranging from social workers, community activists, service providers, academic researchers, to students. Moreover, this volume also presents best practices and examples that will help activists and professional to create meaningful changes for transgender communities. Such power of universality to touch diverse groups of readers is an invitation for everyone to engage and end the violence against transpeople." Pre-order it now: https://www.thebookshop.com.au//transgender-intimate-part/

24.01.2022 Lady Gaga + Manscapes Calendar 2021 Special Offer! - https://mailchi.mp/thebookshop.com.au/gaga-manscapes-225593

24.01.2022 Londons New Gay Literary Couple - Alan Hollinghurst and Paul Mendez "There cant be many debut novelists with lives as unconventional as that of Paul Mendez. He was brought up in the West Midlands as a Jehovahs Witness, disfellowshipped from the Christian denomination at the age of 17 and estranged from his family. He came out as gay and moved to London to study acting, doing sex work on the side to pay his fees. After suffering a traumatic internal injury and becoming suicidal, he temporarily gave that up. Various jobs followed, together with a surfeit of drink and drugs. Finally, he landed a book deal with a top publisher, and surely the cherry on the cake met and fell in love with a famous Man Booker Prize-winning novelist." The Standard https://www.standard.co.uk//paul-mendez-rainbow-milk-inter

23.01.2022 Discover YouTube sensation William Broughman! https://sydneysentinel.com.au//the-life-and-times-of-will/

21.01.2022 And Elska Magazine finally visits Sydney for their 30th issue and they're also celebrating their five-year anniversary! In-store now! #elskamagazine #gaysydney https://www.thebookshop.com.au//elska-magazine-30-sydney-/

20.01.2022 With their new issue, Elska have served up their most honest and unfiltered issue to date! Our policy at Elska has always been to leave our pages open to anyone who wanted to take part, first come first served, but early on I noticed that nearly all the men who got in touch were white says Elska editor and chief photographer Liam Campbell. Having read that the demographic make-up of Sydney was nearly 40% non-white though, I decided I had to try to interfere with our sponta...neous recruitment model and start speaking to people of colour directly to find out why so few had been in touch. In doing so I was shocked to hear multiple stories about not wanting to take part in a publication about Sydneys LGBTQ community because they didnt feel welcome enough there to represent it. Some did want to join the though, and many were sure to talk about whats good and whats not so good about Sydney. That kind of frankness really made me proud to feature Sydney, revealing a community with a lot of passion to be better, and a feeling of responsibility that a place with such a rainbow reputation should serve all. From The Advocate https://www.advocate.com//20/9/16/elska-offers-men-sydney #elskamagazine #gaysydney See more

20.01.2022 Man Booker Shortlist + Elska Sydney! - https://mailchi.mp/thebooksh/man-booker-elska-sydney-225585

19.01.2022 Read and Recommended by Hendri: "Sharply written and brilliantly argued, Aileen Moreton-Robinson reveals the unmarked figure of 'the White middle-class woman' that continues to shape Australian feminism, making it racially blind and culturally biased. In this book, she follows the historical development of Australian feminist theory, and consequently, unpacks how social anthropology and the White feminists have codified and represented Indigenous Women in the 'traditional' ve...rsus 'contemporary' binary. Indeed, this form of binary has distorted the representation of Indigenous women by essentialising 'cultural differences' that subsequently calls for a civilising mission and saviourism. As sexuality is central to feminist theory, Moreton-Robinson critically examines of sexuality itself is always entangled with race. In other words, Indigenous women are positioned as 'sexual deviants', while White feminists seemingly only sees sexuality through the prism of bodily autonomy without attending the ways that bodies are always racialised and thus treated differently across different racial lines. Finally, this 20th Anniversary Edition of Moreton-Robinson's important book remains a call for all of us to integrate anti-racist views in feminist scholarship and activism." Available now: https://www.thebookshop.com.au//talkin-up-to-the-white-wo/

19.01.2022 Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s to 1950s Demand is absolutely RED HOT for this 'Photographic History' and we have more copies due in-store mid next week. However, half of the shipment are already allocated to customer pre-orders. If you're interested in a copy we recommend you order today. Although we do have more copies on order, our US supplier went out of stock again immediately after supplying next week's shipment. https://www.thebookshop.com.au//loving-a-photographic-hi/

19.01.2022 Double Loyalty Points is running through until Friday 5 November ... and with so many tempting titles in-store it's the perfect time to shop! https://www.thebookshop.com.au

19.01.2022 'Happiest Season' stars Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Daniel Levy, with Victor Garber and Mary Steenburgen and is a hilarious Christmas rom-com that is the perfect escape from this crazy year. It's releasing November 26 and we'll be announcing some opportunities to win free double passes next week - so stay tuned... #sonypictures #HappiestSeason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_jjELPpKkk

18.01.2022 Click out this progressive new voice in Sydneys media landscape, the Sentinel offers a different take on Sydney. Arts, features, news and opinion sections are joined by dedicated queer and vegan sections, in an online publication for the 21st century. https://sydneysentinel.com.au/

18.01.2022 Well the novel is excellent based on EM Forster and his policeman boyfriend Bob Buckingham. This casting is surprising!

16.01.2022 Double Loyalty Points Promotion - ends tomorrow night! - https://mailchi.mp/t/double-loyalty-points-promotion-225553

16.01.2022 We have plenty of stock the new illustrated biography of Tom of Finland but also stock of the available older titles - and the film on DVD at a special discounted price. https://www.thebookshop.com.au/search.php

16.01.2022 Read and Recommended by Hendri: "Bent Streets Love from A Distance is an impressive collection of creative works that explore the role of technologies in mediating and shaping our contemporary intimacies, particularly during the COVID pandemic. Writers, academic researchers, and artists share their own experience and relationship with the present and the past technologies that have shaped what they have become now. Gay activist and academic, Dennis Altman writes about his m...elancholic separation with his boyfriend living in Equador, while examining Australias responses to the pandemic in contrast to the U.S responses. In his essay, Gary Dowsett looks at how gay pornography has transformed not only our relations with others but also with ourselves. The articles by Tiffany Jones, Emiel Maliepaard, and Rainicorn, specifically explore how memes have reflected the geopolitical dimension of the Coronavirus, how bi+ people navigate their sexuality in online spaces, and how digital spaces transform the ways dominant and submissive enact their roles in everyday life, respectively. Some other articles, by Marcus ODonnell and Geoff Allshorn, take us to the past, seeing how cultural platforms have always mediated intimacies, including the Star Trek TV show. Finally, this edition is important and meaningful evidence of the roles of technology in making and shaping queer lives." Available now: https://www.thebookshop.com.au//bent-street-4-1-love-from/

15.01.2022 Double Loyalty Points Promotion - ends tonight! - https://mailchi.mp/t/double-loyalty-points-promotion-225557

15.01.2022 Christmas Shopping Event discounts all weekend! Ending 11.59pm Monday 23 November 2020. Tiered discounts apply - the more you spend, the greater your discount! For every $30 you spend (after discounts), you also earn an entry into our Christmas Competition with a range of great prizes from double movie passes, free signed books, and free DVDs! We have over 20 prizes to give away so your chances of being a winner are very good indeed!... - https://mailchi.mp//christmas-shopping-event-begins-now-22

15.01.2022 Read and Reviewed by Hendri: "I grew up with American and British R&B music, like Destiny's Child, Sugababes, Aaliyah, Timbaland, and Mis-Teeq. Reading Rainbow Milk interweaves all these R&B references into the story brings me a musical experience that I rarely get from other novels. It follows the story of a nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy who escapes his conservative Jehovah's Witness family in the Black Country for a fresh start in London. Struggling with loneliness, and... facing racist microaggressions (and also, eroticisation in the gay scene), McCarthy feels at odds with himself and turns to sex work. From one older-man to another, he attempts to recuperate a sense of loss lingering inside him until he meets Owen Gunning, a Cambridge-educated divorcee, who introduces him not only to the literary world but also the new notions of love and personhood. Together, both McCarthy and Gunning embark on an intellectual and erotic journey, exploring how selfhood is continuously reinvented to make sense of our past. Though brimming with a lot of steamy sex scenes, Paul Mendez's Rainbow Milk also offers many tender moments and hopes that will touch the readers' hearts." Available now: https://www.thebookshop.com.au/new-/rainbow-milk-paperback/

15.01.2022 Read and Recommended by Hendri: "'Ending transgender intimate partner violence truly will take a village.', write the editors of this volume, Adam M. Messinger and Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz. Nevertheless, as the fourteen chapters in this volume have demonstrated, such a task is not impossible, once a diverse group of service providers, researchers, activists, and community members come together to dismantle our assumptions on transgender intimate partner violence (IPV). Is law... and order always an effective means to address IPV? Why might calling the police be detrimental to the lives of transpeople who become the victims of IPV? Why do many transpeople keep staying in their abusive relationship? In what ways can service providers offer a trans-affirmative shelter and service that usually cater to female victims of intimate partner violence? How should community organisations design health care services that can address transgender survivors of IPV? These are some of the important questions addressed critically in all the chapters that are written in an accessible fashion to a wider audience, ranging from social workers, community activists, service providers, academic researchers, to students. Moreover, this volume also presents best practices and examples that will help activists and professional to create meaningful changes for transgender communities. Such power of universality to touch diverse groups of readers is an invitation for everyone to engage and end the violence against transpeople." Pre-order it now: https://www.thebookshop.com.au//transgender-intimate-part/

15.01.2022 Our website has been working overtime during Covid-19 and so we've upgraded it to a new and improved theme. This will improve many aspects how the website functions and fix a few glitches. And it also provides a clean and fresh new look! https://www.thebookshop.com.au

14.01.2022 The annual New York Times 100 Notable Books list is always very significant for book lovers - and the just published 2020 list has a half dozen titles for LGBT readers. Note - 'Memorial' by Bryan Washington is due in-store tomorrow afternoon. https://www.nytimes.com//int/2020/books/notable-books.html

13.01.2022 London's New Gay Literary Couple - Alan Hollinghurst and Paul Mendez "There cant be many debut novelists with lives as unconventional as that of Paul Mendez. He was brought up in the West Midlands as a Jehovahs Witness, disfellowshipped from the Christian denomination at the age of 17 and estranged from his family. He came out as gay and moved to London to study acting, doing sex work on the side to pay his fees. After suffering a traumatic internal injury and becoming suicidal, he temporarily gave that up. Various jobs followed, together with a surfeit of drink and drugs. Finally, he landed a book deal with a top publisher, and surely the cherry on the cake met and fell in love with a famous Man Booker Prize-winning novelist." The Standard https://www.standard.co.uk//paul-mendez-rainbow-milk-inter

12.01.2022 Pre-sales are now available for the 2021 Manscapes calendar. Any customer who purchases the calendar before 1 October, will receive an 8 x 12 bonus print of cover-man Brody. This photo does not appear in the calendar. We expect to have the calendar available in-store around Wednesday 7 October. https://www.thebookshop.com.au//f/manscapes-calendar-2021/ #manscapes #johnbortolin

12.01.2022 Pre-sales are now available for the 2021 Manscapes calendar. Any customer who purchases the calendar before 1 October, will receive an 8 x 12 bonus print of cover-man Brody. This photo does not appear in the calendar.... We expect to have the calendar available in-store around Wednesday 7 October. https://www.thebookshop.com.au//f/manscapes-calendar-2021/ #manscapes #johnbortolin

12.01.2022 Stephanie Bunbury in today's @sydneymorningherald suggests 'Shuggie Bain' will scoop the Man Booker 2020 on 19th November... with 'Real Life' the other main contender... "Douglas Stuart also lives in New York, but sets Shuggie Bain his story of a little boy’s attempt to support his dissipated alcoholic mother in his native Glasgow. The life described in Brandon Taylor’s 'Real Life' is on a mid-western university campus, where science graduate student Wallace black, quee...r and struggling to prove himself in a competitive laboratory endures the loneliness of difference. Both are debut novels, acknowledged to be grounded firmly in their respective authors’ own lives. They are also, in my view, the most immediately gripping novels on the list. Does it matter if the novel of the year is as near as may be to an autobiography? In these genre-fluid times, maybe not. If I had to pick an obvious winner, it would be the rapturously reviewed 'Shuggie Bain', partly because I know two or three things about alcoholism and it is the most meticulously observed account I’ve read of the way one person’s addiction bleeds through all the lives it touches. Shuggie’s mother, Agnes, is a mercurial character, priding herself on a tidy house and considering herself many cuts above her scruffy neighbours, while also drinking her Monday pension cheque by a Thursday." https://www.smh.com.au//diverse-booker-prize-shortlist-ref

12.01.2022 We have plenty of stock the new illustrated biography of 'Tom of Finland' but also stock of the available older titles - and the film on DVD at a special discounted price. https://www.thebookshop.com.au/search.php

11.01.2022 Our Christmas Shopping Event with Tiered Discount runs All Weekend - the more the spend, the bigger your discount! Plus for every $30 you spend (after discounts) you go in the draw to win a series of fabulous prizes! - https://mailchi.mp/thebookshop.com.au/tiered-discount-225773

11.01.2022 A new look for our website! - https://mailchi.mp/theboo/a-new-look-for-our-website-225565

10.01.2022 Read and Reviewed by Hendri: "I grew up with American and British R&B music, like Destinys Child, Sugababes, Aaliyah, Timbaland, and Mis-Teeq. Reading Rainbow Milk interweaves all these R&B references into the story brings me a musical experience that I rarely get from other novels. It follows the story of a nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy who escapes his conservative Jehovahs Witness family in the Black Country for a fresh start in London. Struggling with loneliness, and... facing racist microaggressions (and also, eroticisation in the gay scene), McCarthy feels at odds with himself and turns to sex work. From one older-man to another, he attempts to recuperate a sense of loss lingering inside him until he meets Owen Gunning, a Cambridge-educated divorcee, who introduces him not only to the literary world but also the new notions of love and personhood. Together, both McCarthy and Gunning embark on an intellectual and erotic journey, exploring how selfhood is continuously reinvented to make sense of our past. Though brimming with a lot of steamy sex scenes, Paul Mendezs Rainbow Milk also offers many tender moments and hopes that will touch the readers hearts." Available now: https://www.thebookshop.com.au/new-/rainbow-milk-paperback/

10.01.2022 Our website has been working overtime during Covid-19 and so weve upgraded it to a new and improved theme. This will improve many aspects how the website functions and fix a few glitches. And it also provides a clean and fresh new look! https://www.thebookshop.com.au

09.01.2022 This visual biography of the renowned artist is genteelly described by the publisher as including extensive suggestive illustrations and photos !! Thats an understatement! #tomoffinland https://www.thebookshop.com.au//tom-of-finland-the-offici/

09.01.2022 Brilliant news from the UK overnight - both Real Life and Shuggie Bain have made the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2020. And we have plenty of stock of both books. But the shocker is that Hilary Mantel has been eliminated... https://www.theguardian.com//most-diverse-booker-prize-sho

07.01.2022 Read and Recommended by Hendri: "Contrary to the common belief about the allyship (straight people as the allies of queer people), queer people actually need to become allies of straight people. Why is that so? Jane Ward's The Tragedy of Heterosexuality details how heterosexual culture, the pinnacle of normality, is rife with dull sex, disrespectful attitudes, and obsession with outdated norms, consequently leading to monotonous erotic life and equally, heterosexual suffering.... However, as Hans Christian Andersen's famous tale, The Emperor's New Clothes, the heterosexuals tragically are not yet aware of it, or perhaps, if they are, the straight people would not dare to admit it. Such ignorance, Ward details, is evident in 'the heterosexual-repair industry', in which popular books and coaching companies continue flourishing by giving out temporary solutions to the long-standing problem, which are deeply rooted in the foundation of the straight culture itself. With her unapologetic, witty, and provocative style, Ward illuminates myriad ways of heterosexual culture perpetuates gender stereotypes, the resentment between men and women fueled by sexist science and norms, and super-sadly, the prescripted sexual relation. To save the heterosexuals from their soon-to-be doomsday, Ward turns to the 1970s lesbian feminist texts to teach what straight men and women can do to be better and wilder in bed (and in romantic life, too!). This includes how to think differently about 'penetrative sex' beyond just a give-and-take action. This is a "Queer Eye for the Straight Couple" book to guide them for a more meaningful and loving life." Pre-order it now: https://www.thebookshop.com.au//the-tragedy-of-heterosexu/

06.01.2022 And Elska Magazine finally visits Sydney for their 30th issue and theyre also celebrating their five-year anniversary! In-store now! #elskamagazine #gaysydney https://www.thebookshop.com.au//elska-magazine-30-sydney-/

06.01.2022 This years Polari Prize shortlisted books - for emerging and established writers. The winners will be announced on Thursday, October 15. Px

05.01.2022 Man Booker Shortlist + Elska Sydney! - https://mailchi.mp/thebooksh/man-booker-elska-sydney-225597

04.01.2022 Manscapes Calendar 2021 + other new titles! - https://mailchi.mp/thebookshop.com.au/manscapes-225577

04.01.2022 And Michael Burge was welcomed to Sydney with a brilliant review in the Sydney Morning Herald. If you missed yesterday's signing event, we have plenty of signed copies of all his books. https://www.thebookshop.com.au/brands/Michael-Burge.html

03.01.2022 https://www.them.us//trans-author-cemetery-boys-nyt-bestse

03.01.2022 Free Postage Promo - ending Monday 16th November! - https://mailchi.mp/thebookshop.com./free-post-ending-225749

03.01.2022 We're thrilled that 'Shuggie Bain' has made the Man Booker Shortlist and so we're celebrating all things Scottish today! https://www.thebookshop.com.au//kilty-pleasures-wall-cale/ #shuggiebain #manbookerprize #douglasstuart #gayscotland

03.01.2022 Arrived in-store today!

02.01.2022 It arrived in-store on Friday!

02.01.2022 Author Bing Yu dropped by the shop late last week and signed copies of his two books - and they have proven very popular already! #sellingquickly https://www.thebookshop.com.au//a-river-by-the-window-chi/

02.01.2022 Our Christmas Shopping Event with Tiered Discount ends this evening in-store and tomorrow morning online - the more the spend, the bigger your discount! Plus for every $30 you spend (after discounts) you go in the draw to win a series of fabulous prizes! - https://mailchi.mp/thebookshop.com.au/tiered-discount-225777

02.01.2022 Ottolenghi FLAVOUR is the impactful, next-level approach to vegetable cooking that Ottolenghi fans and vegetable lovers everywhere have been craving. Get your copy today. https://bit.ly/34MMw3P

02.01.2022 Our Free Postage Promotion continues... - https://mailchi.mp/thebooksho/free-postage-promotion-225745

01.01.2022 Read and Recommended by Hendri: "Bent Street's Love from A Distance is an impressive collection of creative works that explore the role of technologies in mediating and shaping our contemporary intimacies, particularly during the COVID pandemic. Writers, academic researchers, and artists share their own experience and relationship with the present and the past technologies that have shaped what they have become now. Gay activist and academic, Dennis Altman writes about his m...elancholic separation with his boyfriend living in Equador, while examining Australia's responses to the pandemic in contrast to the U.S responses. In his essay, Gary Dowsett looks at how gay pornography has transformed not only our relations with others but also with ourselves. The articles by Tiffany Jones, Emiel Maliepaard, and Rainicorn, specifically explore how memes have reflected the geopolitical dimension of the Coronavirus, how bi+ people navigate their sexuality in online spaces, and how digital spaces transform the ways dominant and submissive enact their roles in everyday life, respectively. Some other articles, by Marcus O'Donnell and Geoff Allshorn, take us to the past, seeing how cultural platforms have always mediated intimacies, including the Star Trek TV show. Finally, this edition is important and meaningful evidence of the roles of technology in making and shaping queer lives." Available now: https://www.thebookshop.com.au//bent-street-4-1-love-from/

01.01.2022 Brilliant news from the UK overnight - both 'Real Life' and 'Shuggie Bain' have made the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2020. And we have plenty of stock of both books. But the shocker is that Hilary Mantel has been eliminated... https://www.theguardian.com//most-diverse-booker-prize-sho