Yarraville is very Generous

(Not actual present wrapped at Sun Bookshop)

Thanks Yarraville today we donated an IPad to Yarraville Special Developmental School.  They are great educational tools for children with disabilities. We could only do this due to the generosity of our customers who donated money for Gift Wrapping at Christmas. On April 21st we will again be raising money for Yarraville Special Developmental School  with a bound proof lucky dip on our birthday.

Is What you Eat from Where you Are?

The Field Guide to Victorian Produce

The Locavore Edition

This stunningly (and locally and eco-friendly) printed field guide is about being a Locavore, maybe you haven't heard of this term (spell check certainly has not!) but a Locavore is someone who tries to eat locally. So this neat little book can help you do more of that, eat things grown within walking distant (omg!) of your house or community or suburb. Maybe not walking distance but would't you prefer, for example, to have some lovely Ross Creek Garlic from your very own state of Victoria than some mysterious internationally produced garlic? I think it is worth some (food for) thought!

There are other interesting morsels scattered through the book,  an interview with Stephanie Alexander, and an article titled 'I Don't Buy Food From Strangers' which makes me feel sort of excited... Imagine only buying food from people you knew, who had grown the food, all on their own. 

The guide has 105 grower profiles, 179 producer profiles, food trails and maps for regions in Victoria and beautiful illustrations to keep you visually pleased while scouring for the best of the best in fair Victoria.

Yum!

by Molly

Pop-Up Parks and Books

Okay so we are trying to not think about the sad day that our PopUp Park disappears and just enjoy it completely whilst it is still here. Look out any lunchtime and you are sure to see some Sun Bookshoppers with a sandwich in one hand and a book in the other. This week I was catching up on Lauren Olivers' Delirium, it's great teen fiction, from this U.S. writer who will be at the Younger Sun Bookshop for afternoon tea on Thursday 29th of March at 4.30pm, come on down. A few weeks ago you could have seen me absorbed in Christopher Morgans' wonderful Currawalli Street . Christopher, one of Yarravilles own, will be at the Sun Bookshop Wednesday 21st of March where Yarraville's Queen of Rock Rebecca Barnard will be launching Currawalli Street.  Hitting it with a bottle of plonk I believe. I whiled away a bit of summer reclining in a deck chair and page-turning my way through Paddy O'Rielly's funny, moving tale of a single mother in country Victoria. The Sun Bookclub is lucky enough to have Paddy come along and discuss The Fine Colour of Rust with us Wednesday 28th of March at 8pm. Crikey its all too much fun and you are all invited . Ps read The Cartographer Peter Twohig has not turned up in the hood yet but his funny, page turning tale of  the city we all know, looked at in another era is a corker.

At Last Proof of a Winner

So now that the whole holiday thing has come to an end we thought you might like to see a photo of the fabulous Shaun. Shaun won our annual Christmas Competition a whole window full of books.
Hooray for Shaun he is one lucky Yarravillian.

Crikey its all going on here in the hood, Yarraville is truly pumping as the Pop-Up park gets underway, families and happy folk everywhere. Deckchairs umbrellas and grass. Between the Sun Bookshop and the Younger Sun. No longer do we take our lives in our hands whilst delivering stock. Oh Happy days.

Win Books!

This is not really our window ours is a little smaller with less books, but a very nice window all the same

Our famous Win Window Competition begins today. Come on down to the bookshop, purchase a book and go into the running to Win, Win, Win books from our Summer reading Christmas Thingo! Very Exciting!

Exploding Bookseller!

Okay so we have in the shop now Hard Cover copies of Erin Morgenstern's 'The Night Circus'. Hard Cover at only $32.95, yes you read correctly! 'The Night Circus' is a great fantasy romance for those who do not  love fantasy, people like me for example. There are actually so many new and fabulous reads waiting for you just inside our doors at the moment, it can be a little overwhelming. Its a bit like a degustation meal the delicious morsels just keep coming, try Hippstermattic, so funny. How about one of the loads of the Vintage Classics or Penguin modern classics, cheap yet so so good! The Drop by Michael Connolly or Ian Rankin's newest The Impossible Dead.What about a book on Jerusalem, either James Carrolls' Jerusalem,Jerusalem or Simon Sebag Montefiores' Jerusalem. True Crime, Essays, Art, Cooking, Science. Too much stop I might explode.