MacLean's Booksellers in Newcastle, New South Wales | Independent book shop

MacLean's Booksellers

Locality: Newcastle, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 4969 2525

Address: 69 Beaumont Street 2303 Newcastle, NSW, Australia

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

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25.01.2022 Currently reading: Infinite Splendours by Sofie Laguna (author of The Eye of the Sheep). Tina says that so far it is suspenseful and has hooked her in!

23.01.2022 Tomorrow!! Don't miss out! Lake Mac Libraries

23.01.2022 Competition alert! One of the prizes is a $150 MacLean's voucher.

23.01.2022 Happy Weekend! Aspiring authors and illustrators, we have a treat for you. Have you ever wondered about the process behind creating art for books? In this video local illustrator Liz Anelli Illustrator takes us behind the scenes of Dry to Dry, written by Pamela Freeman. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

22.01.2022 A stack of Jane Harper's new ~hair-raising~ thriller. Boom tish.

22.01.2022 Woooo! Huge congrats to the winning authors, illustrators and publishers of the CBCA 2020 Book of the Year Awards! #CBCA2020

20.01.2022 Great info about Acknowledgement Of Country.

20.01.2022 Good morning! We open at 9.30am today and have a whole table stacked with new releases. I think "visit MacLean's" will be an excellent addition to your to-do list.

19.01.2022 Here come the school holidays! And here come the grannies! Rita's so excited about the new Bluey book she slipped on her beans. (Apologies to anyone who hasn't seen Bluey before and has no idea what we're going on about.)

17.01.2022 Any guesses what Tina's new favourite book might be?

17.01.2022 Thanks for visiting us yesterday Oliver Phommavanh Fan Page! Signed copies of Brain Freeze in-store!

17.01.2022 The next Nevermoor book is here! We don't want to spoil anything for you, but yes, Hollowpox is amazing. Pic credit: Hachette

16.01.2022 Wow, this looks fantastic! A graphic novel of the best-selling Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari is coming out next week. Email us at [email protected] if you'd like to reserve a copy. This would be an awesome Christmas gift for ages 14 and above. https://www.macleansbooks.com.au/p/graphic-novels-sapiens-a

15.01.2022 Add to your reading list: maar bidi, an anthology of prose and fiction, edited by Elfie Shiosaki and Linda Martin. What it's about: "A diverse group of young black writers are encouraged to find strength in their voices and what is important to them. maar bidi is a journey into what it is to be young, a person of colour and a minority in divergent and conflicting worlds. All talk to what is meaningful to them, whilst connecting the old and the new, the ancient and the contemporary in a variety of ways. These young essayists, critics, novelists, poets, authors shake down words and works to find styles, forms and meanings that have influenced them and all their writings. These pieces are snapshots of peoples, places and perception."

15.01.2022 We have puzzles and activity books for all ages, so if you're worried about screen time getting out of hand, come and give us a visit! We even have a FRIENDS puzzle. Could we BE more excited? (Just a little Chandler Bing humour for you there.)

14.01.2022 This Saturday is Love Your Bookshop Day, so tell us, what's your FAVOURITE thing about bookshops? #loveyourbookshopday2020

10.01.2022 "Where Snow Angels Go" is a lovely picture book for Christmas. Sylvie wakes one night and sees a snow angel in her bedroom with a pair of wings, enormous in size, made of the softest snow-white feathers imaginable. He tells her that he is here to look after her, for Sylvie is not as well as she seems... Many months later, as Sylvie recovers from her illness, she longs to see her snow angel again. He saved her life, after all. There is so much she wants to tell him, so much she wants to know. Will he ever come back to her? And how can Sylvie make sure that everyone she loves has their own snow angel, to keep them safe, too?

08.01.2022 Oooooooh shiny. Definitely judging a book by its cover here. And also the fact that Neil Gaiman gave it his tick of approval. D (A Tale of Two Worlds) by Michel Faber: "12-year-old Dhikilo was born in a faraway country, though she's doing her best to feel at home with her new parents in the crumbly seaside town of Cawber-on-Sands.... Until one day, the letter D disappears from the language, and Dhikilo is the only person who notices it's gone. You'd think the loss of one little letter wouldn't make much of a ifference to aily life. But it actually makes things very ifficult and, eventually, quite esperate. Determined to rescue the D, Dhikilo teams up with her old history teacher, Professor Dodderfield. In moments, she is in the wintery land of Liminus where she meets the Magwitches, the Quilps, the Spottletoes, and other strange tribes. https://www.macleansbooks.com.au/p/fiction-general-d-a-tale

07.01.2022 Have you read The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth? Amanda and Tina both very much enjoyed it. Here's what it's about: "There's only been one time that Rose couldn't stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life. Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And she avoids crowds, bright lights and loud noises as much as possible. Fern has a carefully structured life an...d disrupting her routine can be ... dangerous. When Rose discovers that she cannot fall pregnant, Fern sees her chance to pay her sister back for everything Rose has done for her. Fern can have a baby for Rose. She just needs to find a father. Simple.Fern's mission will shake the foundations of the life she has carefully built for herself and stir up dark secrets from the past, in this quirky, rich and shocking story of unexpected love."

06.01.2022 It's Australian Reading Hour today! We'd like to encourage you to put aside (and treat yourself to) one hour to read today whenever it suits you. It could be with your kids, your students, in the garden or in bed with a cup of tea. What will you be reading today? #AustraliaReads #ReadingHour

05.01.2022 Always Was Always Will Be Happy NAIDOC

03.01.2022 Thanks for visiting Josh Pyke! Signed copies of Josh's new picture book - The Incredible Runaway Snot - in store now.

02.01.2022 *Starts singing the Bluey theme song*Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do Does anyone else get that song stuck in their head? We have so many great Christmas-themed books in the shop at the moment, including this very cute Bluey activity book.

02.01.2022 Congratulations Sami Bayly Art on the release of your new book, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dangerous Animals. Signed copies available at the shop!

01.01.2022 Merry Christmas! Our Christmas Gift Guide is here: https://talkbox.impactapp.com.au//XEFByTyis9fF0ac0D4T/TSSz