Staff Picks
The Neighbourhood Books Team
Neighbourhood books is a proudly independent general bookshop serving the inner north of Melbourne since 2018. Their sister store, The Little Bookroom, in Fitzroy North is only 1.6kms away!
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Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Justice
In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of 'the Aboriginal problem', she theorises a strategy for living in a social world that has only ...Show more
Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller; Olivia Laing (introduction)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
A new edition of the cult classic, with over two dozen additional stories, from the godmother of autofiction. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collectiion from the legendary writer, actress, ex-biker and columnist Cookie Mueller. Mueller chronicles her high-risk, h ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Horror | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
Acting Class by Nick Drnaso
$39.99 AUD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
"Every single person has something unique to them which is impossible to re-create, without exception." —John Smith, acting coach From the acclaimed author of Sabrina, Nick Drnaso's Acting Class creates a tapestry of disconnect, distrust, and manipulation. Ten strangers are brought together under the t ...Show more
Angels and Magpies: The Love and Rockets Library by Jaime Hernandez
$32.99 AUD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels | Series: Love and Rockets Ser.
The sublime, the superpowered, and the senior citizen converge in Angels and Magpies, which collects the Gods and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls and Love Bunglers storylines from the Love and Rockets: New Stories series, as well as Hernandez's 2006 serial for the New York Times. In the latter, Maggie p ...Show more
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy #1) by Marlon James
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dark Star Trilogy Ser.
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter - and he always works alone. But when he is engaged to find a child who disappeared three years ago, he must break his own rules, joining a group of eight very different mercenaries working together to find the boy. Following the lost boy's scent ...Show more
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Let me tell you about our brother. The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him. The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and figh ...Show more
Crisis Zone by Simon Hanselmann
$52.50 AUD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
As the Covid-19 pandemic continued to escalate far beyond any reasonable expectations, Crisis Zone escalated right alongside, in real time, with daily posts on Instagram. Crisis Zone's battle mission was to amuse the masses: no matter how horrible and bleak everything seemed, at least Werewolf Jones was ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Jane EyreBy Charlotte Brontëm grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fe ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
Sailor & Lula, Expanded Edition - The Complete Novels by Barry Gifford
$49.99 AUD
Category: Crime
"The Romeo and Juliet of the South" are back in this new edition of the internationally best-selling Sailor and Lula novels, now including for the first time the culminating novel, The Up-Down, by American master Barry Gifford. "Barry Gifford invented his own American vernacular--William Faulkner by way ...Show more
Savage Season by Joe R. Lansdale
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hap and Leonard Thrillers Ser.
A rip-roaring, high-octane, Texas-sized thriller, featuring two friends, one vixen, a crew of washed-up radicals, loads of money and bloody mayhem. Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are best friends, yet they couldn't be more different. Hap is an East Texas white boy with a weakness for women. Leonard is a ...Show more