Biggest congratulations to Lee Lai @_leelai for winning the 2026 Stella Prize for CANNON, which also happens to be the next read for our Wednesday night book club on 3 June (picked well before the announcement, by the way)!
If you want to join (or hear more about either of our book clubs) follow the link in our bio and enter your email address where prompted! ⭐️
We're really pleased to be part of the launch of Lisa Gorton's new collection of poetry, MIRROR LANDSCAPE, on Wednesday 3 June ⭐
We'll be selling books on the night at Brunswick Artists' Bar, where Lisa will be in conversation with fellow poet Bella Li.
See you there from 6.30pm! For the link to RSVP, check out the Events page on our website ❤️
We have so many beautiful gifts in store for Mother’s Day—plus the wrap and cards to go with them! We’re open till 8pm tonight and from 10am to 6pm tomorrow so you still have plenty of time to come in and choose something lovely for your mum (or grandma, or friend who’s a new mum) before Sunday 🧡📚🌞
Give mum a food experience like no other. We’ll feed her, offer her wine, give her a cookbook, show her a cooking demo and then let her settle in for a fun chat with an author about food and cookbooks. Give the mothers what they want! Book through the @bbound website.
May is looking busy for us! Here's what's on:
See you at Soundworks tomorrow (Tuesday) night from 6pm for journalist and writer Antoun Issa's author talk to celebrate his new release, Rebirth. RSVP to [email protected] ⚡
On Wednesday 6th we'll be selling books at Mali Cornish's launch for The Missing Mother at Brunswick Artists' Bar!
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday this week we're staying open till 8pm for Mother's Day shopping! ❤️
On Thursday 21 May we're hosting a poetry reading in the shop with local poets Ender Başkan, Elena Gomez, Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle, and Connor Weightman. Free entry and open to all!
Finally, there are still tickets available to our next Eat the Book event with Jaclyn Crupi at Brunswick Kitchen--this time we're joined by Mara Ripani with a demo from The Baker's Percentage 🍞
Amity's April read!
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Vilhelm's Room is an inquiry into human relationships and the price we are willing to pay for companionship. The novel follows Ditlevsen's common trope of a woman driven half-mad with her obsession to understand the world around her and the complex that is human relationships. Who is Vilhelm, is there a currency that can buy a body to fill the room he has left behind?
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It's new release week so we've put together a bit of a virtual browse for you here at the Bound! Big titles this month include Lena Dunham's Famesick, On the Calculation of Volume IV, the new Patrick Radden Keefe, My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy, and many more! Everything is available on our website or just pop in for an irl browse 🌞
Signed copies of my new poetry book, That's What They Do, now available at one of my favourite Melbourne bookshops @bbound
That's What They Do has been described as a collection that focuses on power, silencing, abuse and marginalisation across personal and public spheres.
This follows my bestselling poetry book Love and Fck Poems, Just Give Me The Pills, She's Not Normal and my short story collection The Mother Must D-e. All also available at Brunswick Bound.
Happy reading!
Poetry at the shop!!!! Tell your friends!!
Come along to the inaugural Brunswick Bound After Hours where we'll gather in the evening time to hear some of our favourite poets read, enjoy each other's company, and maybe even savour a beverage!
See you at 6pm on Thursday 21 May for readings from Ender Başkan, Elena Gomez, Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle and Connor Weightman. We'll have books available from everyone, including Zarah and Elena's new releases ⚡
This is a free event and everyone is welcome ❤️ The space is wheelchair accessible, however we don't have an accessible toilet. The Brunswick Green a few doors down from us has accessible toilets.
The Global Book Crawl starts tomorrow, Monday 20 April! Come visit us to get your passport, start collecting stamps, and pick up some cool merch, for example:
📚 a limited edition Global Book Crawl tote, as modelled here! Get one for free if you spend over $70, or you can buy them for $20
📚 Penguin books collectible cards for everyone who buys a Penguin book in store 🐧
Make the most of the free trams, as Eamon is waiting to do here, and head to Sydney Rd 💕 The Global Book Crawl runs from tomorrow till Sunday 26 April! Merch stock is limited so get crawlin’ 🐞🐝🐛
Eat the Book! Emelia Jackson taught us how to achieve a perfect Swiss Roll and made us all fall in love with cake in all its forms. Her bakes are accessible and so delicious and we love her. In awe that I get to do this. We have so many big exciting plans so watch this space. @emelia_jackson@bbound@brunswickkitchen
