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.

1Q84

This mighty tome is absolutely flying out our door. 

We have to agree with the blurb -

1Q84 is a magnificent and fully-imagined work of fiction – a thriller, a love-story and a mind-bending ode to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is a world from which the reader emerges stunned and altered.

Have you picked up yours yet?

Too Many Books Too Little space

Well November is here for Booksellers as books run in the door and there are giant piles all over the shop. In fact we are finding it a little scary just where do these books fit? Shop little, books many. Trying to fit in the reading requirement of a bookshop life between receiving books has been hard too but I have managed a few. Blood by Tony Birch a moving road story of a young boy, the sister he will protect at any cost and their neglectful mother, I shed a tear. The much hyped The Night Circus -Erin Morgensten which really is a magical love story written with great imagination. Death and the

Spanish Lady- Carolyn Morwood a great mystery set in Victoria during the Spanish influenza epidemic in 1919, the first in a 3 book series it was a treat to read. The Marriage Plot -Jeffrey Eugenides what a fabulous tale of a love triangle, growing up and semiotics. Squeezed in The Sisters Brothers -Patrick DeWitt This Booker short listed book really is such a great, violent, western. The story of 2 hitman travelling across America to do a job is a complete page turner.Ate a great meal at the Corner Shop'snewest venture Brain in Williamstown Smoked eel to die for.

Cooking the Books Launch

A Kerry Greenwood launch is always a joy to be involved with.  Deb Cox and David Greagg were the launchers and the book was sung into launch by about 25 choristers  singing beautifully in Latin. Thanks to Kerry for her stamina when book signing and to all the Kerry fans who made the morning fabulous.

Bookclub

The Sun Bookshop bookclub was lucky enough to have Adrian Hyland come along last month. People battled school holidays and foul weather and were not disappointed by this fascinating  man and his brilliant book. Kinglake 350