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Mary Who? Bookshop

Locality: Townsville, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4771 3824

Address: 414 Flinders Street 4810 Townsville, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.indies.com.au/marywho

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25.01.2022 We’ve missed this book... now after many many months it’s back! And it’s a sparkling new edition.

21.01.2022 Australia Reads... Today, Thursday November 12 we’re celebrating Australian Reading Hour. Here we are reading at work, because we are Booksellers, and isn't that what Booksellers do all day? So stop what you’re doing for an hour, pick up a book and read to yourself, the children in your life or someone sitting nearby! Feel freeee to share your #ReadingAtHome or #ReadingAtWork or #ReadingAnywhere pics. with us.... Lack of time is not an issue... when you find the right book! #AustraliaReads #ReadingHour #BooksAreEssential #MaryWho #MaryWhoCrew That's enough hash tagging from us... come on start reading!

15.01.2022 Book of the Day: Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie From page one you will be enthralled... Agatha Christie's most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover to tie in with the highly anticipated 2020 film adaptation.... The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting' nothing is ever quite what it seems #mwbookoftheday

13.01.2022 Book of the Day: There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, Carlo Rovelli follows his curiosity and invites us on a voyage through science, history, philosophy and politics. Written with his usual clarity and wit, these pieces range widely across time and space: from Newton's alchemy to Einstein's mistakes, from Nabokov's butterflies to Dante's... cosmology, from travels in Africa to the consciousness of an octopus, from mind-altering psychedelic substances to the meaning of atheism. Charming, pithy and elegant, this book is the perfect gateway to the universe of one of the most influential scientists of our age. #mwbookoftheday #kindness #carlorovelli #townsville

11.01.2022 Just look at these 600 gram beauties... Bramble & Hedge Panforte Dome Nougat Cake and the Panettone Nougat Bombe! Panforte Nougat Cake - The nougat is made with Italian glacé fruit, Pedro Ximenez then covered in Belgian dark chocolate and freeze dried cranberries. (Delicious Creamy) Panettone Nougat Cake - with Almonds, Pistachio, Cedro and White Chocolate. ... The perfect gift or you could always treat yourself! We have three of each currently adorning ‘The Chocolate Table’. #booksandnougatbombes #giftsforall #westockthestuffwelike

10.01.2022 Celebrating Australia's Native Wildlife author Daryl Dickson in conversation with Michael Clarke on ABC North Queensland Breakfast, talking about the replenishing power of nature in stressful times, ahead of her launch event Daryl Dickson Book Signing - Mary Who? Bookshop Townsville this Sunday, November 29. (The interview starts at 2 hours 15mins into the episode.)... Celebrating Australia's Magnificent Wildlife: The Art of Daryl Dickson is a beautiful book - published by Exisle Publishing See you Sunday... no bookings required.

09.01.2022 Book of the Day: When We Say Black Lives Matter by Maxine Beneba Clarke A gorgeous and timely picture book for children of all ages from the prize-winning and bestselling Australian author Maxine Beneba Clarke Little one, when we say Black Lives Matter,... we're saying black people are wonderful-strong. That we deserve to be treated with basic respect, and that history's done us wrong. From birth to the end of school, in joy and in sorrow, on the trumpet and the djembe, at home and in the community, a black child's parents remind him why Black Lives Matter. In When We Say Black Lives Matter, a black child's parents explain what the term Black Lives Matter means to them: in protest and song, in joy and in sorrow. I see this picture book as an act of Black Love - I was inspired to write and create it when thinking about how to explain the concept of Black Lives Matter to the young African diaspora kids in my extended family, living in over eight different countries across the world - including America, Australia, Germany, Barbados and England. - Maxine Beneba Clarke, on writing her latest book. Published today... Happy Book Birthday Maxine! Author info Maxine Beneba Clarke is a widely published Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent. Maxine's short fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published in numerous publications including Overland, The Age, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper and The Big Issue. Her critically acclaimed short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2015 and the 2015 Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Matt Richell Award for New Writing at the 2015 ABIAs and the 2015 Stella Prize. She was also named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists for 2015. Maxine has published three poetry collections including Carrying the World, which won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry 2017 and was shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award. The Hate Race, a memoir about growing up black in Australia won the NSW Premier's Literary Award Multicultural NSW Award 2017 and was shortlisted for an ABIA, an Indie Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and Stella Prize. The Patchwork Bike, Maxine's first picture book with Van T. Rudd was a CBCA Honour Book for 2017. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.

09.01.2022 Townsville’s Fibres & Fabrics group were up and out before breakfast this morning to bomb us with their Colourful Christmas installation. Thanks to all their members who have worked on the project again this year. It’s so jolly... we love it!

07.01.2022 Cameron Smith called in this morning to sign copies of his new autobiography ‘The Storm Within’. Limited signed copies available... now!

05.01.2022 Book of the Day: The Fire of Joy by Clive James Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this book, completed before just before his death, he offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each. In the last months of his life, his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read, Clive James explored the treasure-house of his mind: the poems he knew best, so good that he didn’t just remember them, he found them impossib...le to forget. The Fire of Joy is the record of this final journey of recollection and celebration. Enthralled by poetry all his life, James knew hundreds of poems by heart. In offering this selection of his favourites, a succession of poems from the sixteenth century to the present, his aim is to inspire you to discover and to learn, and perhaps even to speak poetry aloud. In his highly personal anthology, James offers a commentary on each of the eighty or so poems: sometimes a historical or critical note on the poem or its author, sometimes a technical point about the poem’s construction from someone who was himself a poet, sometimes a personal anecdote about the role the poem played in his own life. Whether you’re familiar with a poem or not whether you’re familiar with poetry in general or not these chatty, unpretentious, often tender mini-essays convey the joy of James’s enthusiasm and the benefit of his knowledge. His urgent wish was to share with a new generation what he himself had loved. This is a book to be read cover to cover or dipped into: either way it generously opens up a world for our delight. #mwbookoftheday #poetry #clivejames

03.01.2022 This CBD event starts at 5pm today... MW? will be OPEN late tonight! How late? Well that depends on you... ‘...The Northern Lights Trail begins in Flinders Street and takes individuals on a walking tour of the CBD, showcasing magical light displays and features an augmented reality adventure!...’