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Brunswick Bound

Locality: Brunswick, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9381 4019

Address: 361 Sydney Road 3056 Brunswick, VIC, Australia

Website: https://shop.brunswickbound.com.au/

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25.01.2022 The best book title on our shelves right now... "There Are Places in the World Where Rules are Less Important Than Kindness" by physicist Carlo Rovelli. Definitely worth taking a look at...

24.01.2022 I said... Hey, let's do a #classicsfromthetopdrawer today! Things got a little out of hand... #Dune #fearisthemindkiller check out Instagram for the resulting masterpiece

23.01.2022 And the winner of this year's Barbara Jefferis Award is local author Lucy Treloar for "Wolfe Island". Congratulations Lucy!

23.01.2022 How many have you read?

23.01.2022 From yesterday's Brain Pickings... start the day with Audre Lorde & Cecile McLorin Salvant.

23.01.2022 Happy Holidays!

22.01.2022 Well you stayed in there with us these past six months! And we even managed to make some good memories (as seen below) during that time. It is so exciting for us to be able to welcome you back into the store from 10am tomorrow. Whilst we (and you) remain masked and sanitised, our shelves will be unashamedly and abundantly showing you heaps of bookish love. Can't wait to see you! And from Rob & Susie, here's a little message of gratitude... https://brunswickboundbookstore.blogspot.com/ See more

22.01.2022 Happy long weekend, Melbourne! We are open tomorrow from 11am-5pm #melbournebookshops #indiebookstore #sydneyrdbrunswick #boundtoloveit

22.01.2022 This year's Booker Prize has been announced and the winner is "Shuggie Bain" by Douglas Stuart.

21.01.2022 Brunswick Bound Upstairs is open today - loads of great gifts and sale books that you are #boundtolove

21.01.2022 This Monday you can check out Jenny Hocking talking about the revelations in her new book "The Palace Letters" via Facebook Live as organised by Moreland City Libraries. This is going to be terrific!

19.01.2022 Last night we were lucky enough to host the launch for The Care Factor by @ailsawild . This beautiful book features the conversations of Ailsa and her good friend Sim, a nurse, as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of Victoria last year. The empathy and love of this book is only matched by that of the audience last night Hardie Grant the publisher of The Care Factor will donate $1 from each copy sold to Drummond Street Services, a not for profit community organisation. #melbournebookshops #indiebookstore #literaryevents #boundtoloveit

19.01.2022 New editions in store now!

19.01.2022 We are talking about Archie Roach's memoir "Tell Me Why" at our November book club...

19.01.2022 We are open this Wednesday & Thursday until 8pm... https://bit.ly/3mrq5pU

19.01.2022 Nobody celebrates the 'hood better than photographer Warren Kirk! Courtesy of the good man himself & the peeps at Scribe Publishing, we have a signed poster print to give away at the end of this month. Simply purchase your copy of "Northside" to enter. https://shop.brunswickbound.com.au/catalog/search (images shown from "Northside" and are not the print that will be won)

17.01.2022 Our top 3 bestsellers this week were 1. Northside by Warren Kirk 2. The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante... 3. Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith See more

17.01.2022 The Moreland Summer Show Peers' Choice Award recipient, as selected by other exhibiting artists, was Aylsa McHugh for her work "Construction In Space". Alysa will receive a Solitude & Solace book pack courtesy of Brunswick Bound (that's us!). The book pack includes titles by local authors that connect to this years exhibition theme. Check it out down at The Counihan Gallery in Brunswick now!

16.01.2022 Do you subscribe to Overland? Anyone who subscribes, renews or donates by Friday 20 November goes into the running for three truly astounding prize draws the major prize draw, the daily prize draw and the regional prize draw. An annual subscription which includes four print issues, the daily online magazine, invitations to subscriber events, discounted entry to Overland competitions, and other opportunities and giveaways is just $60 full and $45 students/unwaged.

15.01.2022 Still Alive is the latest release from Melbourne micro press @twelvepanelspress This moving graphic novel is a collection of true stories from people detained in Sydney’s Villawood Detention Centre, sketched out by Walkley Award-winner Safdar Ahmed. We are very excited to be stocking this important book #melbournebookshops #indiebookstore #sydneyrdbrunswick #graphicnovel #twelvepanelspress #boundtoloveit

15.01.2022 Our book club peeps are meeting for the final time in 2020 tonight via Zoom to discuss Archie Roach's award winning and stunning memoir "Tell Me Why". https://bit.ly/39d3I4B

15.01.2022 We're here from 10am today for pick ups and phone calls and delivery requests and general soaking in of bookish goodness... https://bit.ly/37ByKCn

15.01.2022 Our bestsellers this week were 1. All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton 2. Northside by Warren Kirk... 3. Earthlings by Sayaka Murata See more

14.01.2022 Bushrangers always hold a special place in Australian mythology... read an extract from the new book about Captain Moonlite from Garry Linnell here...

14.01.2022 So many great books for children, including the new Treehouse book from Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton in store now.... https://shop.brunswickbound.com.au/c/children-s-books__78

14.01.2022 Miles Franklin award winning author Sofie Laguna dropped in this afternoon to sign copies of her new novel "Infinite Splendours". Check it out instore https://shop.brunswickbound.com.au/p/australian-fiction-inf

14.01.2022 We are very excited to be hosting this launch! Register your interest below.

13.01.2022 Last night we had the pleasure of launching alongside The Melbourne Poets Union "In This Part of the World" - a new chapbook from local poet Kevin Brophy. Kevin is one of the co-founders of Going Down Swinging and a lecturer in Creative Writing. It was so wonderful to see so many people joining us via Zoom to celebrate the release of this beautiful collection. Thanks to Kevin and Dr Tina Giannoukos for inviting us to be a part of this very special and hugely entertaining evening... you can find out more about the collection via https://shop.brunswickbound.com.au/p/poetry-in-this-part-of

12.01.2022 If you need help paying for a book or know someone who does, why not make use of our Pay It Forward programme... We and our customers have contributed to this programme so very generously during these past months and we still have a board (situated at the front of our store) filled with vouchers for people to make use of. Simply take a voucher (the amount is stipulated on the tag) from the board and bring it to the counter with your purchase. And if you cannot come into the store, get in touch via phone or email and we'll organise it on this end. Tell your friends, tell our community - books really do make our lives better.

12.01.2022 Are you playing #vicbookshopbingo ? We've had some lovely visits from authors to get us started... You can find out more here https://imbineeme.com/vicbookshopbingo/ and can win a $200 book voucher.

10.01.2022 "...but more the shock of knowing that those sentences were written by someone a short bus ride away and, what’s more, that these were the kinds of lines I had been trying to write myself." The wonderful Wayne Macauley on Gerald Murnane's "The Plains" from LitHub.

09.01.2022 Books and beers... beautiful! What a great way to while away the long afternoons! Thanks to Welcome to Brunswick for organising this great deal of classic books and beers delivered to your doorstep...

08.01.2022 Every book is a door.... Eeeeeee! So excited to have these limited edition prints to give away with "This Small Blue Dot" by Zeno Sworder. We just love this book and know you are #boundtoloveit as well... https://shop.brunswickbound.com.au/p/australian-picture-boo

07.01.2022 Ready to play Bookshop Bingo? Complete your bingo card (which you can download with the below link) by visiting bookshops in person, using click and collect or ordering online. Share your visit or purchase on social media, tagging the bookshop and using the hashtag #VicBookshopBingo... It’s that easy! When you’ve completed your card Email a picture of the card to [email protected] with your social media account handle to be in the running for $200 of books from your favourite bookshop! Closes Monday, December 21st!

07.01.2022 Plainly a great read - check out "Plain Bad Heroines" by Emily M. Danforth in store now...

07.01.2022 So many books... Starting to put together our Xmas wishlists - so many gems here!

07.01.2022 Our top 3 bestsellers this week were 1. Shuggie Bain (Booker Prize Winner) by Douglas Stuart 2. Loving Country: A Guide to Sacred Australia by Bruce Pascoe & Vicky Shukuroglou... 3. A Year of Simple Family Food by Julia Busuttil Nishimura See more

06.01.2022 Really looking forward to "Not A Novel" coming out later this month. Absolutely love Jenny Erpenbeck's fiction and know that this is bound to be a fascinating collection of essays.

05.01.2022 This week’s top 5 is in: No Friend But The Mountains by Behrouz Boochani Reset by Ross Garnaut Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Fragile Monsters by Catherine Menon... Luster by Raven Leilani Catch us in the shop today until 6pm, and tomorrow from 10am - 6pm #melbournebookshops #indiebookstore #boundtoloveit #sydneyrdbrunswick

04.01.2022 The recipient of the Moreland Summer Show People’s Choice Award is Safak Gurboga for his work "Self-portrait". You can check out the Summer Show and Safak's winning work now at The Counihan Gallery in Brunswick.

03.01.2022 The Summer Show is now on at The Counihan Gallery in Brunswick. We sponsored the Moreland Summer Show's Peers' Choice Award. In this award exhibiting artists recognise the achievement of other artists who have responded to the exhibition theme Solitude & Solace. This year's sponsored prize pack of books include great titles by local authors which also relate to the exhibition theme. You can visit the exhibition online here https://morelandsummershow2020.netlify.app/.

02.01.2022 Thanks everyone for making a year such as this one so incredible! We are taking a break and will return to work on Tuesday at 10am. We really hope that your holidays are filled with books and the time to read them! That's what we are giving ourselves this Christmas... See you on the other side & thank you so very much - booklovers really are the best people.

02.01.2022 Remembering Ania Walwicz... from Overland Magazine.

02.01.2022 Great question Lit Hub....