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Mostly Books

Locality: Torrens Park

Phone: +61 8 8373 5190

Address: Mitcham Square, 119 Belair Rd 5062 Torrens Park, SA, Australia

Website: http://mostlybooks.com.au

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25.01.2022 We new releases day look at all these beautiful new books!! #booknerds

25.01.2022 What could be better than one heartwarming read for Mother’s Day? Try TWO heartwarming reads - for the price of one! You can get the brand new Meredith Jaffe novel alongside the last one from Tracy Chevalier for $33.

25.01.2022 We love Jane Harper and Annie is thrilled to be interviewing her on Wednesday evening about her new book, The Survivors, in partnership with City of Marion Libraries. Tune in on Zoom from 7pm! Bookings required.

25.01.2022 What a setting for our event at @thehawkecentre tonight! In Greetings from Trumpland, journalists Zoe Daniel and Roscoe Whalan interrogate the single term of America’s most divisive president and its aftermath. #greetingsfromtrumpland

23.01.2022 We're getting excited nervous butterflies about our book launch of Go Away, Worry Monster this Saturday! We hope you can join us from 2pm for a reading, activities and a drawing demonstration from local illustrator and former Mostly Books staff member, Robin Tatlow-Lord Illustration

22.01.2022 Calling all lovers of classics and dishes! You can bring your interests together at last with these beautiful tea towels, now available free with every two Vintage Books you purchase. Who ever said the classics were dry?! #literaryteatowel #vintageclassics

20.01.2022 The countdown is on! Only a month to go until Christmas and we have books coming out of our ears. So many great gift ideas here - just ask our staff for a recommendation. Our cut off dates for book orders are coming around quickly too: Dec 3 for small suppliers and Dec 10 for our major suppliers. #shopearly #shoplocal

19.01.2022 Hot books on sale now - get in early to avoid disappointment for Christmas! Our message this year is to imagine that Christmas is November 25th and plan accordingly - once your wishlisted books are gone, they might not be back until the new year. #shopearly

18.01.2022 We’re curling up with a good book tomorrow and we hope you are too. We’ll be back on Tuesday morning for all your bookish needs - but if you just can’t wait until then, you could peruse our flash new website, including an online shop! Pictures courtesy of @siaduff and web wizardry thanks to Mon Bachmayer.

15.01.2022 What more could you want from one of the great political figures of our time than a memoir? Oh, a playlist to listen along to while you read it?! Thank you very much. In store tomorrow

14.01.2022 Big news overnight as the Booker Prize whittles its list down to six - including four debut novels. What's your pick?

13.01.2022 What an incredible month of new releases we have coming - just today we’ve had new novels from Gail Jones, Richard Flanagan, Monica McInerney, Craig Silvey & Sayaka Murata as well as biographies of Lowitja O’Donoghue & from Alex Miller. Australian books are having a moment!

13.01.2022 IT’S HERE! The eagerly awaited follow-up to Trent Dalton’s bestselling, award-winning Boy Swallows Universe. All Our Shimmering Skies is a lyrical, transcendent historical novel, set in Darwin in 1944. Annie is comparing it to The Book Thief - and that cover, phwoar!! Come on in to grab your copy in hardback ($50) or paperback ($33) with limited edition signed copies available while stock lasts. #allourshimmeringskies

12.01.2022 Join Soul Publishing for the launch of their highly anticipated second book, "Wine, Beer & Spirits of the Fleurieu". Saturday 1 May from 4pm at Mostly Books This delightful 200+ page coffee table book includes stunning photography of the Fleurieu, along with stories & tips from wineries, breweries & distilleries new & old alike from the region.... Enjoy a glass from Vigna Bottin Wines & meet the Author & Creative Director of Soul Publishing, Rojina McDonald at this casual in-store event. This book is the follow up to the hugely successful "Faces & Food of the Fleurieu" and both books will be available for purchase & signing on the day.

11.01.2022 Don’t forget dad this weekend! Come in and check out our vibrant table of gift suggestions, or ask us for something particular to your dad’s interests. In a pinch, there’s always a Mostly Books voucher!

09.01.2022 COVID-19 UPDATE According to the latest advice from SA Health, we are going to close from 5:30pm this evening for 6 days. We will keep you updated on our ability to trade as we find out more information. Stay safe and look after your community. If you are desperate to look at books we can only recommend that you do some window shopping on our website www.shop.mostlybooks.com.au in preparation for when we reopen!

07.01.2022 Douglas Stuart has won the prestigious Man Booker Prizefor his debut novel, Shuggie Bain. It is ‘a searing account of a young boy growing up in Thatcher’s Glasgow of the 1980s, with a mother who is battling addiction. Stuart, 44, dedicated the book to his own mother, who died of alcoholism when he was 16.’

04.01.2022 We are excited to welcome Soul Publishing founder, Rojina McDonald, to Mostly Books this Saturday, May 29. Please join us for a glass of wine from Vigna Bottin Wines and hear about Rojina’s journey to publication of this second gorgeous volume about the producers of the Fleurieu region. #winebeerandspiritsofthefleurieu https://www.facebook.com/events/292374422256954

03.01.2022 Good news South Australians - our ‘pause’ was even shorter than expected and we will be reopening on Sunday. Look after yourselves and we look forward to seeing you at 11am!

01.01.2022 Jennifer Cossins, author of 10 much loved children’s books, is raising money to rebuild a library in Bali. Get yourself some cute bookish Christmas presents and support a good cause at the same time!