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Mary Who? Bookshop

Locality: Townsville, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4771 3824

Address: 414 Flinders Street 4810 Townsville, QLD, Australia

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25.01.2022 The American Booksellers Association launches their #BoxedOut #ShopIndie Campaign... ‘...which is designed to market indie bookstores and speak to the critical choice between shopping indie and shopping Amazon.’ -equally relevant to our Australian book industry-... #supportlocal #townsville #marywhobookshop

25.01.2022 Cameron Smith called in this morning to sign copies of his new autobiography ‘The Storm Within’. Limited signed copies available... now!

25.01.2022 Queensland Health has issued a public health alert for Townsville, Cairns and Brisbane. Anyone who has been to these locations at these dates and times should monitor their health and if they develop any COVID-19 symptoms get tested and isolate until they receive their test result. Hyde Park, Townsville - Icon Cancer Centre Townsville - 28 September - between 4-5pm Hyde Park, Townsville - Mater Day Surgery - 29 September Pimlico, Townsville - NQ Vascular - 30 September... - between 1-2pm Hyde Park, Townsville - Mater Day Surgery - 1 October Flight QF2302 - Townsville to Cairns - 3 October Flight VA 782 - Cairns to Brisbane - 6 October There are testing facilities right across the state including GPs, fever clinics and pop up clinics. To find your nearest testng location, visit www.qld.gov.au/covid19testing The updated list is available at: https://www.qld.gov.au/health/covid-19/contact-tracing See more

24.01.2022 "...We need fairy floss as well as broccoli."

24.01.2022 Browsing about... with Mothers in mind

24.01.2022 Multitasking at MaryWho?. Doing our postal! #SummerReadingGuide #USElection #ElectionDay2020 #AmericaDecides2020

23.01.2022 Book of the Day: One Day I’ll Remember This: Diaries 19871995 by Helen Garner Helen Garner’s second volume of diaries charts a tumultuous stage in her life. Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming, and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the furore that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in love and a great writer at work. With devastating honesty and sparkling humour, she grapples with wha...t it means for her sense of self to be so entwined with anotherhow to survive as an artist in a partnership that is both enthralling and uncompromising. And through it all we see the elevating, and grounding, power of work and the enduring value of friendship. #mwbookoftheday #helengarner #shopindie

23.01.2022 Book of the Day: The Carbon-Neutral Adventures of the Indefatigable EnviroTeens by First Dog on the Moon A hilarious, illustrated and environmentally-friendly adventure from the country's enormously popular and only marsupial Walkley award-winning cartoonist and soon to be beloved children's author. Meet our superheroes:... - Binky, aka The Monotreme! - Worried Norman, once bitten by a radioactive croissant and now Pastry Person! - Letitia, an occasionally bossy science-wombat and genius inventor! Together, they are the EnviroTeens and they are about to get very, very angry. Singleuse Plastic Brendan may have an evil plan to destroy all the world's turtles with his dastardly tur-tele-pooter but, believe it or not, there is something even more sinister than an angry plastic bag on a garbage island in the middle of the ocean ... Climate change! Oh no! The EnviroTeens will do anything to stop this impending disaster: scale slippery volcanoes, scurry through forests full of poisonous armpit monsters, even meet Senator Ian, the Climate Denialist Potato. But can three teenagers and a chicken save the whole world? Why not, nobody else is! Maybe they are in with a chance? I can't look, it's too exciting! A proportion of the publisher's profits will be donated to School Strike 4 Climate Australia #mwbookoftheday #firstdogonthemoon #marywhobookshop #townsville #climateemergency

22.01.2022 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

22.01.2022 Book of the Day: Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo - the owner of a Parisian palace filled with beautiful objects, turned into a memorial for his lost son - by the bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes 63 rue de Monceau, Paris... Dear friend, As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well. Count Moïse de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes. Like the Ephrussi, the Camondos were part of belle époque high society. They were also targets of anti-semitism. Camondo created a spectacular house and filled it with the greatest private collection of French eighteenth-century art for his son to inherit. But when Nissim was killed in the First World War, it became a memorial and, on the Count's death, was bequeathed to France. The Musée Nissim de Camondo has remained unchanged since 1936. Edmund de Waal explores the lavish rooms and detailed archives and uncovers new layers to the family story. In a haunting series of letters addressed to the Count, he tells us what happened next. 'Letters to Camondo immerses you in another age... de Waal creates a dazzling picture of what it means to live graciously' Financial Times #mwbookoftheday

20.01.2022 Tuesday Book Club... Sue talks books with Michael Clarke on ABC North Queensland radio this morning ...broadcasting from home again, ABC studio still off limits. #townsvilleshines #townsville #indiebooks #marywho #covidsafe #bookchat

20.01.2022 Book of the Day: Mary's Last Dance The untold story of the wife of Mao's Last Dancer by Mary Li The highly anticipated memoir of Australian ballerina Mary Li and the long-awaited sequel to her husband Li Cunxin's bestselling memoir, Mao's Last Dancer. Mary’s Last Dance is a powerful and uplifting memoir about chasing an impossible dream, and sacrificing one’s own ambition for the love of a child. It is a moving and unforgettable story of passion, dedication and devotion a...nd the highly anticipated sequel to one of the world’s most beloved books. Mary Li is an international ballet star and a mother like no other. She became a household name when her husband Li Cunxin published his bestselling memoir, Mao’s Last Dancer but that book told only half the story. Growing up in a rambunctious family in Rockhampton, Mary discovered an extraordinary early passion for ballet. It saw her move to London at age sixteen, to study at the Royal Ballet School and dance at the London Festival Ballet with the likes of Nureyev, and later to Houston Ballet, where as Principal Dancer she fell in love with the acclaimed dancer Li Cunxin. The couple became the darlings of the dance world, and were happier than they could have imagined at the arrival of their firstborn daughter, Sophie. Then right at the height of her international career, Mary seemingly disappeared from view. What could have happened to cause a woman so committed, so talented, to give it all away in a heartbeat? Now, almost twenty years on, we learn what happened next to this inspiring family, and why it is Mary’s turn to tell a truly remarkable tale. #mwbookoftheday #ballet #dance #shopindie

20.01.2022 Book of the Day: Stalin’s Wine Cellar by John Baker and Nick Place The adventure of a lifetime to buy Stalin’s secret multimillion dollar wine cellar located in Georgia; it is the Raiders of the Lost Ark of wine. In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. Always entrepreneurial and up for adventure, he was the perfect person for an occasional business partner to approach with a mysterious wine list that was foreign to anything John, o...r his second-in-command, Kevin Hopko, had ever come across. The list was discovered to be a comprehensive catalogue of the wine collection of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia. The wine had become the property of the state after the Russian Revolution of 1918, during which Nicholas and his entire family were executed. Now owned by Stalin, the wine was discreetly removed to a remote Georgian winery when Stalin was concerned the advancing Nazi army might overrun Russia, and inevitably loot artefacts and treasures. Half a century later, the wine was rumoured to be hidden underground and off any known map. John and Kevin embarked on an audacious, colourful and potentially dangerous journey to Georgia to discover if the wines actually existed; if the bottles were authentic and whether the entire collection could be bought and transported to a major London auction house for sale. Stalin's Wine Cellar is a wild, sometimes rough ride in the glamorous world of high-end wine. From Double Bay Sydney to Tbilisi Georgia, via the streets of Paris, the vineyards of Bordeaux and iconic Château d'Yquem. A multimillion dollar cellar and a breathtaking collection of wine (and one very expensive broken bottle) is the elusive treasure. The cast of characters include Stalin, Hitler, Tsar Nicholas II and a motley bunch of Georgian businessmen/cowboys toting handguns, in the early days of Russian business development that led to the world of Putin and oligarchs. #mwbookoftheday #stalin #wine #marywho #townsville

20.01.2022 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!

20.01.2022 Book of the Day: How Zoologists Organize Things by David Bainbridge Discover how categorisation has shaped our view of the natural world with How Zoologists Organize Things. The book unveils wild truths and even wilder myths about animals, as perpetuated by zoologists - revealing how much more there is to learn, and unlearn. Humankind's fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival - differentiating the edible from the toxic, the ferocious from the tractab...le. Since then, our compulsion to catalogue wildlife has played a key role in growing our understanding of the planet and ourselves, inspiring religious beliefs and evolving scientific theories. The book unveils wild truths and even wilder myths about animals, as perpetuated by zoologists - revealing how much more there is to learn, and unlearn. Long before Darwin, our ancestors were obsessed with the visual similarities and differences between the animals. Early scientists could sense there was an order that unified all life and formulated a variety of schemes to help illustrate this. This human quest to classify living beings has left us with a rich artistic legacy, from the folklore and religiosity of the ancient and Medieval world through the naturalistic cataloging of the Enlightenment to the modern, computer-generated classificatory labyrinth. This book tells the fascinating, visual story of this process. The wonderful zoological charts reflect prevailing artistic trends and scientific discoveries, as well as telling us as much about ourselves as they do about the creatures depicted. See more

19.01.2022 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.

19.01.2022 Book of the Day: The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams mountweazel, noun: a fake entry deliberately inserted into a dictionary or work of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth has reached the letter 'S', toiling away for the much-anticipated and multi-volume Swansby's New Encyclopaedic Dictionary. Overwhelmed at his desk and increasingly uneasy that his colleagues are attempting to c...orral language and regiment facts, Winceworth feels compelled to assert some sense of individual purpose and exercise artistic freedom, and begins inserting unauthorised, fictitious entries into the dictionary. In the present day, young intern Mallory is tasked with uncovering these mountweazels as the text of the dictionary is digitised for modern readers. Through the words and their definitions she finds she has access to their creator's motivations, hopes and desires. More pressingly, she must also field daily threatening anonymous phone calls. Is a suggested change to the dictionary's definition of marriage (n.) really that controversial? What power does Mallory have when it comes to words and knowing how to tell the truth? And does the caller really intend for the Swansby's staff to 'burn in hell'? As their two narratives combine, Winceworth and Mallory must discover how to negotiate the complexities of an often nonsensical, untrustworthy, hoax-strewn and undefinable life. The Liar's Dictionary explores themes of trust and creativity, naming the unnameable, and celebrates the rigidity, fragility and absurdity of language. It is an exhilarating debut novel from a formidably brilliant young writer. About the author Eley Williams lectures at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her short story collection Attrib. and Other Stories won the James Tait Black Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. The Liar’s Dictionary is her debut novel. #mwbookoftheday #lexicography #shopindie

18.01.2022 See below... 'your chance to win a $100 voucher for your local bookshop! One winner per state and territory. Entries close October 3rd at 5pm AEST.' Affirm Press #LYBD2020

17.01.2022 Book of the Day: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman The author of A Man Called Ove is back with a riotous comedy about a hostage-situation at a Swedish apartment viewing In a small town in Sweden it appears to be an ordinary day. But look more closely, and you'll see a mysterious masked figure approaching a bank...... Two hours later, chaos has descended. A bungled attempted robbery has developed into a hostage situation - and the offender is refusing to communicate their demands to the police. Within the building, fear quickly turns to irritation for the seven strangers trapped inside. If this is to be their last day on earth, shouldn't it be a bit more dramatic? But as the minutes tick by, they begin to suspect that the criminal mastermind holding them hostage might be more in need of rescuing than they are... #mwbookoftheday #marywho #anxiouspeople

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15.01.2022 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!...’

15.01.2022 Book of the Day: Pool A Dip Into Outdoor Swimming Pools - The History, Design And People Behind Them by Christopher Beanland A celebration of outdoor swimming looking at the history, design and social aspect of pools. Few experiences can beat diving into a pool in the fresh air, swimming with blue skies above you. Whether it’s a dip into a busy and bustling city pool on a sweltering summer day, or taking the plunge in icy waters, the lido provides a place of peace in a fren...etic world. The book begins with a history of outdoor pools their grand beginnings after the buttoned-up Victorian era, their falling popularity in the 20th century, and the newfound appreciation for the outdoor pool, or lido, and outdoor swimming in the 21st century. Journalist and architectural historian Christopher Beanland picks the very best of the outdoor pools around the world, including the Icebergs Pool on Bondi Beach, Australia; the 137m seawater pool in Vancouver, Canada; Siza’s concrete sea pools in Porto, Portugal; the restored art deco pool in Saltdean, UK, and the pool at the Zollverein Coal Mines in Essen, Germany. The book also features lost lidos and the fascinating history behind the architecture of the pools, along with essays on swimming pools in art, and the importance of pools in Australia. In addition there are interviews with pool users around the globe about why they swim. The book is illustrated throughout with beautiful colour photography, as well as archive photography and advertising. About the author Christopher Beanland is a journalist and author who specialises in architecture and travel writing. He is the author of Concrete Concept: Brutalist buildings around the world and writes regularly for The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph and Mr Porter. #mwbookoftheday #outdoorpools #lido #pools

15.01.2022 Nineteen Eighty Four (1956) 1984 is a 1956 British black-and-white science fiction film, based on the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, depicting a totalitarian future society. This is the first cinema rendition of the story, directed by Michael Anderson and starring Edmond O'Brien as protagonist Winston Smith, and featuring Donald Pleasence, Jan Sterling, and Michael Redgrave. Drama/Sci Fi | Rated: PG | 90 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch... Subscribe to Townsville Classic Films e-news here... https://mailchi.mp/.../sept-issue-of-classic-film... ...to find out more about classic films and screenings in various quirky locations around Townsville... and online.

15.01.2022 Book of the Day: The Elements of Modern Architecture: Understanding Contemporary Buildings by Antony Radford, Amit Srivastava, Selen B. Morkoç Fifty of the world's greatest modern buildings, from 1950 to the present, dissected and analysed through specially commissioned freehand drawings After a period in which computation-derived architecturedriven by digital design tools, data analysis, and new formal expressionhas thrived, students and their teachers have returned to age...-old techniques before employing the digital tools that are a part of every architect’s studio. Tired of the perfectly rendered screen image, architects are making presentations that are clearly the work of the hand and the mind, not the computer. This ambitious publication, organised chronologically, is aimed at a new generation of architects who take technology for granted, but seek to further understand the principles of what makes a building meaningful and enduring. Each of the fifty works of architecture is presented through detailed consideration of its site, topology, and surroundings; natural light, volumes, and massing; program and circulation; details, fenestration, and ornamentation. Over 2,500 painstakingly hand-drawn images of the buildings of the past seven decades help readers return to the core values of understanding site and creating buildings: looking with the eyes, engaging through direct physical experience, and constructing by hand. #mwbookoftheday #modernarchitecture #marywhobookshop

15.01.2022 More boxes! If you need any please pick up from MW? before this Friday... when the truck comes to empty our recycle bin! #freebies #carboardboxes #townsville #recycle #upcycle

14.01.2022 Tenille is back... let’s eat cake!

14.01.2022 Don't miss this... at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts (next door to MW?) Marion Gaemers and Lynnette Griffiths | Final Curtain Griffiths and Gaemers have been collaborating together for many years. They are continuing to work with ghost net, beach rope and plastic rubbish, investigating how this waste is impacting our life and the environment, with manipulated suggestions toward future morphosis.... 2 October - 15 November

13.01.2022 We’ve missed this book... now after many many months it’s back! And it’s a sparkling new edition.

13.01.2022 Book of the Day: The Betoota Advocate Australia 2020 From the heart of the Western Queensland Channel Country, Australia's oldest and favourite newspaper details our country's very rocky start to a new decade that was supposed to be one of great optimism and innovation. 2020 was meant to be our year of healing. A time to tend to the wounds of a country torn asunder by a decade of divisive political and media debates. A lack of confidence in the international sporting arena. A... 24-hour news cycle that has destroyed the pub test. We thought all of the uncertainty was behind us. The federal election delivered us Scotty from Marketing. The Quiet Australian spoke up. Gay marriage? Yep. Climate change? Let's wait and see what happens. Smudge and Warner had served their time and, together as a nation, it was time to rebuild. But fate had other plans, starting with the worst bushfires in human memory. While large swathes of the country burned, our politicians were either on holidays or giving their mates grants to build indoor pools in blue-ribbon seats. Surely, it couldn't get worse. 'ken oath it could. Mother nature arrived as COVID-19, and told us all to go to our rooms. Author information The Betoota Advocate is a small and independent regional newspaper from far west Queensland. We pride ourselves on reporting fair and just news with an authenticity that rivals only the salt on the sunburnt earth that surrounds us here in the Queensland Channel Country. Established in the mid-1800s, we are arguably Australia's oldest newspaper and have always taken pride in our ability to report both regional and metropolitan news. Recently, our popularity has grown immensely as result of a bold online revival. #mwbookoftheday #betootaadvocate #2020

12.01.2022 Book of the Day: How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco We are here to remember what happened and to declare solemnly that 'they' must never do it again. But who are 'they'? How to Spot a Fascist is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance - including Eco's iconic essay 'Ur-Fascism', which lists the fourteen essential characteristics of fascism, and draws on his own personal experiences growing up in the shadow of Mussolini.... Umberto Eco remains one of the greatest writers and cultural commentators of the last century. In these pertinent pieces, he warns against prejudice and abuses of power and proves a wise and insightful guide for our times. If we strive to learn from our collective history and come together in challenging times, we can hope for a peaceful and tolerant future. Freedom and liberation are never-ending tasks. Let this be our motto: 'Do not forget.' #mwbookoftheday #fascism #umbertoeco

12.01.2022 Pechakucha Night Townsville VOL. 24 Heritage Exchange, 151 Flinders Street Townsville, this Thursday, December 3, from 6:00pm Paul Hardisty, finding meaning through writing. Michael Pope, Xmas Lights.... Plus more... See more

12.01.2022 Book of the Day: Justine by Lawrence Durrell Rediscover one of the twentieth century's greatest romances: a seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt, introduced by Andre Aciman (Call Me By Your Name and Find Me). Walking slowly home through the dark avenue of trees, tasting the brackish harbour wind, I remembered Justine saying harshly as she lay in bed: 'We use each other like axes to cut down the ones we really love'.... Alexandria: the great winepress of love. Trams, palm trees, and watermelon stalls lie honey-bathed in sunlight; in darkened bedrooms, sweaty lovers unfurl. But in a world trembling on the brink of war, passion and death are inextricable. When a penniless Anglo-Irish schoolteacher begins an affair with Justine - a married Egyptian lady of unparalleled glamour - their partners, Melissa and Nessim, are sucked into a whirlpool of jealousy and violence. One of the twentieth century's greatest romances, rich in political and sexual intrigue, Lawrence Durrell's scandalous 'investigation of modern love' set the world alight in 1957, and - as Andre Aciman reveals - it seduces readers to this day. #mwbookoftheday #lawrencedurrell #alexandriaegypt

12.01.2022 Artist Daryl Dickson is out the front this morning signing copies of her beautiful new book... Celebrating Australia’s Magnificent Wildlife. Standard hardcover and limited edition available.

11.01.2022 Congratulations to the winning authors, illustrators and publishers of the CBCA 2020 Book of the Year Awards.

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

08.01.2022 Book of the Day: QE80 The High Road What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand by Laura Tingle Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. But why, despite being so close, do we know so little about each other? And now, in the wake of COVID-19, is it time to change that? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at leadership, character and two nations in transition. In the past half-century, both countries have remade themselves amid shifting e...conomic fortunes. New Zealand has been held up as a model for everything from privatisation to the conduct of politics to the response to COVID. Tingle considers how both countries have been governed, and the different way each has dealt with its colonial legacy. What could Australia learn from New Zealand? And New Zealand from Australia? This is a perceptive, often amusing introduction to two countries alike in some ways, but quite different in others. Jacinda Ardern is not the first reason we have had to look across the Tasman and wonder whether there is another way of doing things . . . New Zealand perhaps the only place in the world that has suffered isolation and the tyranny of distance more than Australia has repeatedly jumped out of its comfort zone and changed direction harder, faster and for longer than Australia has done in the past half-century. Laura Tingle, The High Road #mwbookoftheday

08.01.2022 A few boat loads of games and puzzles arrived this morning... we’ve been squeeeezing them on to the shelves since! Help...! #shoplocal #shopearly

07.01.2022 Book of the Day: To Asia, With Love by Hetty McKinnon ‘To Asia, With Love is my homecoming, a joyous return to the humble, yet deeply nurturing flavours and meals of my childhood as a Chinese girl born in Australia. It is also a celebration of the exciting and delicious possibilities of modern Asian cooking.' Recipes range from the traditional - salt and pepper eggplant, red curry laksa, congee, a perfectly simple egg, pea and ginger fried rice - to Hetty's uniquely modern in...terpretations, such as buttery miso vegemite noodles, stir-fried salt and vinegar potatoes, cacio e pepe udon noodles and grilled wombok caesar salad with wonton crackers. All share an emphasis on seasonal vegetables and creating irresistible Asian(ish) flavours using pantry staples. Whether it's a banh mi turned into a salad, a soy-sauce-powered chocolate brownie or a rainbow guide to eating dumplings by the season, this is Asian home cooking unlike anything you've experienced before. Author info Hetty McKinnon is a cook and food writer with a passion for vegetables. In 2011, she established Arthur Street Kitchen, a local salad-delivery business run out of her home in Surry Hills, Sydney. In 2015, Hetty and her family relocated to Brooklyn, New York City, where she continues to cook and write about food. As well as her genre-defining debut Community, Hetty is the author of two further bestselling cookbooks: Neighbourhood and the award-winning Family. She is also the editor and publisher of food journal Peddler and hosts its podcast 'The House Specials'. #mwbookoftheday #arthurstreetkitchen #asiancooking #marywhobookshop

07.01.2022 Look at this fabulous news... our bookselling buddies in Brisbane Avid Reader Bookshop have been shortlisted in The London Book Fair International Excellence Awards for International Bookstore of the Year!

06.01.2022 Book of the Day: Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart. I read this book about 20 years ago, I loved it... we continue to stock it at Mary Who?. Over two decades ago Sort of Books was set up to help their friend, the some-time Genesis drummer Chris Stewart, bring his sunlit stories of life on a Spanish mountain farm to print. Ever the optimist, Chris hoped to earn enough money to buy a second-hand tractor for his farm. He got his tractor, as the book spent a year on the Sunday... Times Top 10 charts and went on to sell a million and a half copies. His story is a classic. A dreamer and an itinerant sheep shearer, he moves with his wife Ana to a mountain farm in Las Alpujarras, an oddball region in the south of Spain. Misadventures gleefully unfold as Chris discovers that the owner had no intention of leaving. He meets their neighbours, an engaging mix of farmers, shepherds and New Age travellers, and their daughter Chloe is born, linking them irrevocably to their new life. The hero of the piece, however, is the farm itself - a patch of mountain studded with olive, almond and lemon groves, sited on the wrong side of a river, with no access road, water supply or electricity. Could life offer much better than that? #mwbookoftheday #andalucia #stafffavorite #marywho

06.01.2022 Book of the Day: Olive, Mabel and Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs by Andrew Cotter When Andrew Cotter turned his brilliant sports commentary skills from Wimbledon, the Olympics and the US Masters to lockdown contests and life online involving his two Labradors, Olive and Mabel, the result was an internet sensation. The series of videos has been viewed well over fifty million times on social media, giving comfort to locked-down dog owners and spectacle-deprived... sports fans all over the world. In Olive, Mabel & Me, Andrew tells the truth about his two canine celebrities. This is the full story of their rise to stardom, revealing more about how all three of them find peace and happiness away from the hectic world of the media, most often in the mountains. And also just how much Olive dislikes the cat next door. Above all, though, this is a book about the love we all have for our dogs, the companionship and pure joy we get from sharing our lives with them. And the love and affection they give back to us, which is in no way related to us providing a near-constant supply of food and walks. Beautifully written, touching and laugh-out-loud funny, Olive, Mabel & Me is a treat for dog lovers everywhere. #mwbookoftheday #olivemabelandme #indiebooks

06.01.2022 Wow a double page spread in the Townsville Bulletin this weekend! Trent Dalton’s new novel, ‘All Our Shimmering Skies’ will be available publication day 28/9 from MW? - that’s 9am Monday morning. Let us know if you’d like us to hold a copy for you. LOOK OUT for our very special announcement... any moment!

06.01.2022 Book of the Day: Animals Make Us Human Edited by Leah Kaminsky & Meg Keneally A fundraiser for our wildlife, from land, sea and sky. Proceeds go to the Australian Marine Conservation Society and Australian Wildlife Conservancy.... A response to the devastating 201920 bushfires, Animals Make Us Human both celebrates Australia’s unique wildlife and highlights its vulnerability. Through words and images, writers, photographers and researchers reflect on their connection with animals and nature. They share moments of wonder and revelation from encounters in the natural world: seeing a wild platypus at play, an echidna dawdling across a bush track, or the inexplicable leap of a thresher shark; watching bats take flight at dusk, or birds making a home in the backyard; or following possums, gliders and owls into the dark. Hopeful, uplifting and deeply moving, this collection is also an urgent call to action, a powerful reminder that we only have one world in which to coexist and thrive with our fellow creatures. By highlighting the beauty and fragility of our unique fauna, Australia’s favourite writers, renowned researchers and acclaimed photographers encourage readers to consider it in a new light. Featuring: Barbara Allen, Robbie Arnott, Tony Birch, James Bradley, Mark Brandi, Geraldine Brooks, Anne Buist, Melanie Cheng, Claire G. Coleman, Ceridwen Dovey, Chris Flynn, Nayuka Gorrie, Dan Harley, Ashley Hay, Toni Jordan, Leah Kaminsky, Paul Kelly, Meg Keneally, Tom Keneally, Cate Kennedy, David Lindenmayer, Ella Loeffler, Maia Loeffler, Jen Martin, Angela Meyer, Sonia Orchard, Favel Parrett, Marissa Parrott, Bruce Pascoe, Jack Pascoe, Sue Pillans, Nick Porch, Holly Ringland, Euan Ritchie, Antoinette Roe, Kirli Saunders, Graeme Simsion, Tracy Sorensen, Shaun Tan, Lucy Treloar, Karen Viggers, Emma Viskic, John Woinarski, Clare Wright. And photographers: Tim Bawden, Kristian Bell, Rohan Bilney, Justin Bruhn, Andrew Buckle, Matt Clancy, Amy Coetsee, Craig Coverdale, Angus Emmott, Jayne Jenkins, Vivien Jones, Sue Liu, Michael Livingston, Caleb McElrea, Nick Monaghan, Richard Pillans, Gillian Rayment, Linda Rogan, David Maurice Smith, Steve Smith, Colin Southwell, Georgina Steytler, Wayne Suffield, Heather Sutton, Peter Taylor, William Terry, Patrick Tomkins, Matt Wright. #mwbookoftheday #animalsmakeushuman #shopindie #shopearly

06.01.2022 More book deliveries.... to readers in quarantine at Townsville's 'Sugar Shaker' hotel. #eatsleepreadlocal #indiebookshop #marywho #townsville

04.01.2022 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

04.01.2022 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

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04.01.2022 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!

03.01.2022 More stock! There's still time to read the book before the Author Talk & Signing at MW? on May 18. If you do plan to attend this event... please don’t forget to contact us asap to register. It's free!

03.01.2022 'Australian Festival of Chamber Music presents two concerts live from Townsville as part of the North Australian Festival of Arts. With thanks to Melbourne Digital Concert Hall you can watch each concert live from your own home!'

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03.01.2022 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.

03.01.2022 Book of the Day: The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow by A.J. Mackinnon A couple of quiet weeks sailing the River Severn was the intention. Somehow things got out of hand a year later he had reached Romania and was still going. Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an amazing voyage in a boat called Jack de Crow.... Equipped with his cheerful optimism and a pith helmet, this Australian Odysseus in a small Mirror dinghy travels from the borders of North Wales to the Black Sea 4,900 kilometres over salt and fresh water, under sail, at the oars, or at the end of a tow-rope through twelve countries, 282 locks and numerous trials and adventures, including an encounter with Balkan pirates. Along the way he experiences the kindness of strangers, gets very lost, and perfects the art of slow travel. Author bio A. J. (Sandy) Mackinnon was born in Australia in 1963 and spent his childhood between England and Australia, travelling with his family on the last P&O liners to sail between the two countries. His interests include painting, philosophy, writing, Originally published: May 2002... as one of our MW? staff favourites we’ve been selling The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow ever since. #mwbookoftheday #jackdecrow #mirrordinghy

02.01.2022 Book of the Day: The Kinfolk Garden by John Burns In this gorgeous, aspirational work, Burns, editor-in-chief of Kinfolk magazine, collects ‘stories about nature as nourishment’ along with photographs from homes across the globe to inspire people to bring more nature into their own abodes. . . . Expertly evoking a mood of understated luxury, this stunning spread will have design junkies drooling. Publishers Weekly A gardener with a secret oasis on a Parisian rooftop. An ar...tist making faux flowers to brighten Manhattan apartments. A family of ranchers rewilding the American outback. Anchored around the idea of nature as nourishment, The Kinfolk Garden explores lush gardens and plantfilled homes around the world and introduces the inspiring people who coax them into bloom. Through visits to friends old and new, the Kinfolk team learns the secrets to a good garden, and what good a garden can do for our self-care, creativity and communities. Though many of the people we meet along the way champion the idea of following natural instincts rather than a set of prescriptive garden rules, there are practical tips throughout the book that offer advice on everything from growing your own produce to foraging for artful arrangements to simply keeping your houseplants alive a little longer than usual. The Kinfolk Garden is an invitation to engage with natureto care for it, create with its beauty and cultivate new relationships around itand offers inspiration and guidance to anyone looking to bring a little more greenery into their life. #mwbookoftheday #kinfolk #golocal

01.01.2022 Book of the Day: Night Blue by Angela O'Keeffe Potent, haunting and lyrical, Night Blue is a debut novel like no other, a narrative largely told in the voice of the painting Blue Poles. It is a truly original and absorbing approach to revisiting Jackson Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner as artists and people, as well as realigning our ideas around the cultural legacy of Whitlam’s purchase of Blue Poles in 1973. It is also the story of Alyssa, and a contemporary relationship, i...n which Angela O’Keeffe immerses us in the essential power of art to change our personal lives and, by turns, a nation. Moving between New York and Australia with fluid ease, Night Blue is intimate and tender, yet surprisingly dramatic. It is a glorious exploration of how art must never be undervalued. #mwbookoftheday

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