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Imprints Booksellers

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8231 4454

Address: 107 Hindley Street 5000 Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: http://www.imprints.com.au

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25.01.2022 Another November new release, hot off the truck ... a literary look at the art and mechanics of getting hot and bothered. ON GETTING OFF, by popular philosopher Damon Young ($24.99) is the curious reader’s companion to sex. ‘Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas.’ Samuel Johnson... Why is screwing so funny? How should we think about our most shocking fantasies? What is so captivating about nudity? Inspired by philosophy, literature, and private life, Damon Young explores the paradoxes of the bedroom. ON GETTING OFF will f**k with your mind. #sexandphilosophy #damonyoung #philosophybooks #bookstagram #novemberbooks #adelaidewestend

23.01.2022 We’re unlocked as of today! (Or, un-paused, or however you’d like to say it. While Jason & Katherine were in the shop from 11-5, serving customers, some of us were still reading at home. Spencer is reading NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT, a posthumous release by John Williams (author STONER), along with stories from Angela Carter’s THE BLOODY CHAMBER, ‘retellings of classic fables from a woman’s perspective’.... We hope our South Australian customers had a good first day out of hard lockdown. (And to those still under quarantine, we hope you have plenty of good books to keep you company.) #salockdown #saunlocked #bookstagram #staffpicks #adelaidewestend

23.01.2022 Tomorrow we’re back to being IRL booksellers ... but today is our last day of collective bookseller lockdown. And your chance to peek at Megan’s bookshelves, as well as what she’s reading! (CALL OF THE REED WARBLER by Charles Massey, $39.99) ‘I decided lockdown was a good time to finally tackle Call of the Reed Warbler. It's a fascinating, in-depth look at regenerative agriculture in Australia - the kind of book that's going to be full of notes and underlined passages by the ...time I'm finished.’ We’re open again from tomorrow, Sunday 22 November, 11-5. #lockdownreading #lockdownbookselling #staffpicks #backyourbookshop #adelaidewestend #charlesmassey #naturalhistory #birdsofaustralia

23.01.2022 It’s here!!! AFRICOLA: SLOW FOOD, FAST WORDS, CULT CHEF (HB, $49.99), the hot new cookbook of the season, is based on the world-famous, African-inspired Adelaide restaurant. Run by South African chef Duncan Welgemoed, it features sustainably sourced, low-impact-on-the-earth food with big, bold flavours. The book is described as, ‘Ottolenghi on steroids, with a sense of humour and a bit of a Kitchen Confidential vibe.... Buy a copy of AFRICOLA and you can win a dinner for 4 at the restaurant. Just visit www.africola.com.au to enter. (Requires proof of purchase.) #africola #adelaiderestaurants #cookbooks #africanfood #southafricanfood #bookstagram #adelaidewestend

21.01.2022 January is traditionally a quiet time for new release fiction, but this very buzzy new novel comes with heavyweight advance praise from Marlon James and Ocean Vuong. THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones Jr ($32.99) This blinding debut blends the lyricism of Toni Morrison with the vivid prose of Zora Neale Hurston to characterise the forceful, enduring bond of love, and what happens when brutality threatens the purest form of serenity.... The Halifax plantation is known as Empty by the slaves who work it under the pitiless gaze of its overseers and its owner, Massa Paul. Two young enslaved men, Samuel and Isaiah dwell among the animals they keep in the barn, helping out in the fields when their day is done. But the barn is their haven, a space of radiance and love - away from the blistering sun and the cruelty of the toubabs - where they can be alone together. But, Amos - a fellow slave - has begun to direct suspicion towards the two men and their refusal to bend. Their flickering glances, unspoken words and wilful intention, revealing a truth that threatens to rock the stability of the plantation. And preaching the words of Massa Paul's gospel, he betrays them. #january2021 #newreleasebooks #theprophets #bookstagram #backyourbookshop #recommendedreads

20.01.2022 Good news! We’re open again from tomorrow, Sunday 22 November (11am-5pm). Jason and Katherine will be in the shop to meet all your bookish needs, whether that’s serving you over the counter, or fulfilling orders via phone (8231 4454) or email ([email protected]). http://www.imprints.com.au/

16.01.2022 ‘That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.’ - Jhumpa Lahiri What’s your next journey? #windowshopping #bookbrowsing #armchairtravel #bookstagram #backyourbookshop #adelaidewestend #bookshopwindow

14.01.2022 We were open for our second post-lockdown day today, but Jo obligingly recreated her last day of lockdown reading, complete with pizza. Jo read three books in lockdown. (Or, 2.5.) Here’s her report: Day 1: WITNESS by Louise Milligan ($34.99)... This thought-provoking work of reportage exposes the harm done by our adversarial court system, with a focus on sexual assault cases. She talks to lawyers and ‘witnesses’ (aka victims) about their stories, and uses her own experience as an expert witness in the Pell case. Fans of Helen Garner’s courtroom narrative journalism will be immersed and intrigued. Day 2: EXCITING TIMES by Naoise Dolan ($32.99) A witty, incisive, deeply intelligent exploration of relationships as experienced by a protagonist uncertain and privately terrified of them, I bought this immediately after reading Fiona Wright’s rave review in the SRB. Sally Rooney published the first chapter in the Irish lit magazine Stinging Fly, so maybe Dolan earns the (very apt) comparison more than most. Set in Hong Kong, with an Irish protagonist who works as an ESL teacher, this novel is also SO interesting on being a British colony, and the role of language in colonisation. Funny, affecting and sometimes romantic. Day 3: TRUTH IS TROUBLE by Malcolm Knox ($32.99) A fascinating interrogation of ‘free speech’, culture wars and the rise of the religious right in Australia, through the prism of evangelical rugby star Israel Folau, who was sacked for posting opposition to gay marriage, sparking a wider war. I’ve been glued to CNN and US politics recently, and this feels like a local exploration of the issues that led to the current state of the US. (This one is my read-in/progress.) This is the last in our booksellers in lockdown series ... but stay tuned for a special seasonal treat from Katherine soon! #lockdownreading #booksellerinlockdown #sapizzagate #salockdown #staffpicks #narrativejournalism #backyourbookshop #bookstagram

09.01.2022 Jo came to work yesterday dressed to match one of the January new releases we have our eye on ... (Jason and Katherine have already bought copies to read.) NICK by Michael Farris Smith (a previous Adelaide Writers Week guest) is a prequel to THE GREAT GATSBY that stands confidently alone as a terrific novel in its own right. We follow Nick Carraway, the narrator of Fitzgerald’s classic, through the battlefields of World War I, where he dreams of his lover Ella in Paris, and t...race his near-idyllic Midwest childhood ... ultimately leaving him (we can tell you without spoilers) at the cottage at West Egg, noticing a green dock light across the bay. The New York Times review says: ‘We hear echoes of Fitzgerald, of course, but also of Faulkner, Hemingway and a less baroque Cormac McCarthy. It’s a classic American sound, and Smith renders it with sufficient intensity that his iteration of chaos and depravity in 1919, in the wake of war, feels very much alive and relevant to 2021.’

06.01.2022 We’re delighted to be partnering with Feast Festival to present the official launch of DREAMS THEY FORGOT, a stunning short-story collection inhabiting a varied cast of outsiders, misfits and rebel women, by Adelaide’s Emma Ashmere. Join us next Wed 11 November as Feminist Writers Festival director Nikki Anderson launches, with a Q&A with Emma. You can book via the link below.... (And don’t forget to check out the Feminist Writers Festival, happening online this Saturday.) https://www.feast.org.au/ev/book-launch-dreams-they-forgot/

05.01.2022 ‘You can never have too many copies of Orwell,’ said Jason this morning. And looking at these very fine new hardback editions of classics like 1984 and DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON ... well, it’s hard to argue with him. #orwell #1984 #animalfarm #downandoutinparisandlondon #giftbooks #bookshopsofinstagram #adelaidewestend #collectable #classicliterature

01.01.2022 A good day, perhaps, to think about the stories we tell ourselves - and how they help us understand the world we inhabit. STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES by Richard Holloway HB $29.99... Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. In this new book Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers to the biggest of questions are. He examines what we know about the universe into which - without any choice in the matter - we are propelled at birth and from which we are expelled at death, the stories we have told about where we come from, and the stories we tell to get through this muddling experience of life. #richardholloway #novemberbooks #backyourbookshop #adelaidewestend #bookstagram