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Getting good books into people's hands. Potts Point Bookshop is a bookstore based in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, NSW.

We stock all ranges of books including; Art and Design Books, Cookbooks, Food and W**e Books, Biographies, History Books, Gardens and Interiors Books, Travel Books, Sports Books, Crime Books, Books on Current Affairs. We also stock greeting cards, magazines and wrapping paper. We also host a regular book clubs and a weekly story time. Our customers traditionally come from areas of Sydney including, Potts Point, Elizabeth Bay, Rushcutters Bay, Surry Hills, Kings Cross, Double Bay, Darlinghurst, Woollahra, Paddington, Woolloomooloo and the City C*D.

27/09/2026

A grey rainy Sunday, perfect weather for staying in with a book. If you need any inspiration, here’s what we’ve been reading: collected short stories from one of our favourite Irish authors (published earlier this year), a mystery set in the near future post-civil war United States, an imagining of the creation of Daphne Du Maurier’s classic Rebecca, and an unusual race-against-the-clock introspective thriller.

Bring an umbrella and drop in for a browse, we have a lot of new titles coming this week! 🌦

Steve - The News From Dublin by Colm Tóibín
Tim - Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel
Steve - The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain
Naomi - Switzy by Emma Cline

18/09/2026

From the extraordinary archive of Max Dupain comes Definitive Dupain, a new book featuring around 150 photographs spanning his career, from the 1920s through to the ’90s. You can also see the current exhibition celebrating one of Australia’s most prolific photographers, for free at the State Library of New South Wales.

15/09/2026

We’re so pleased to welcome Flamingo Estate, Los Angeles’s Richard Christiansen back to the bookshop to celebrate his latest release, Pleasure Principles: An Almanac from the Garden. Join us on Wednesday, October 7 with Richard in conversation with writer and cook Gemma Plunkett. Tickets are limited and available at the link in bio.

13/09/2026

The ship has come in for a lot of exciting 2026 titles this week.

Philosophical, funny, and heartfelt, we’re especially glad to have a bookshop favourite ‘Black Bag’ back on our shelves. An out-of-work actor gets hired by a psychology professor to sit in an oversized black bag in his classroom. As the months roll by, the actor finds the black bag increasingly comforting…

Steve has read and highly recommends Marlon James’s ‘The Disappearers’. Set in Kingston in the 1980s, a group of strangers come together to form a gay theatre troupe. When they are attacked by a mob during one of their rehearsals, the survivors have to cope physically and mentally in the aftermath. Violent, visceral, darkly funny, intense - ‘The Disappearers’ is one of the most powerful books of the year.

Anna - Black Bag by Luke Kennard
Tim - Black Bag by Luke Kennard
Steve - The Disappears by Marlon James
Naomi - Black Bag by Luke Kennard

11/09/2026

Cookbook season has kicked off so to celebrate here’s a stack of new things we love.

🍸The Cocktail Hour by Tim Hayward
🍊Persiana One by Sabrina Ghayour-Lynn
🧈Kitchening by jeremy lee
🍰Sweet Heart by Natalie Paull | Beatrix Bakes
🍋Simple Too by Yotam Ottolenghi and
🐟Saint Peter by Josh Niland

08/09/2026

In case you missed it, The Booker Prizes longlist for fiction was announced last week, and it’s a goodie. We’ve got a bunch of titles in stock in the shop, and the rest are all on their way. The prize is announced on November 10 so now’s the time to get reading.

08/09/2026

In case you missed it, The Booker Prizes longlist for fiction is out and it’s a goodie. We’ve got a bunch of titles in stock in the shop, and the rest are all on their way. The prize is announced on November 10 so now’s the time to get reading.

06/09/2026

Spring has sprung, the leaves are returning to the plane trees, perfect weather to stroll to the shop and pick up a new book. Here’s what we’ve been reading lately:

The 2026 Miles Franklin winner, the children of a palm oil baron return to Malaysian Borneo for their father’s funeral and have to reckon with his legacy; after waking up to a series of disturbing texts from his son, Jon Ronson gets pulled into an unbelievable investigation of disaffected men at the margins of society; new essays from Michael Cunningham on his writing process, a delight for fans or any lover of books; and a reissue of a Hungarian classic that follows the twenty year relationship of a young writer and her charismatic, strong-willed, eighty year old housekeeper 🌳

Anna - Fierceland by Omar Musa
Steve - The Castle by Jon Ronson
Steve - Unsayable by Michael Cunningham
Ailsa - The Door by Magda Szabó

03/09/2026

Join us for spring drinks on Wednesday 9th September from 5:30 pm to christen our new space. You know the drill: there’ll be drinks, there’ll be books, and hopefully some lovely spring weather. See you then.

02/09/2026

It’s National Indigenous Literacy Day, and this year’s book is the brilliant My Walk Through the Seasons on Ngaanyatjarra Country, written by Ngaanyatjarra Elder, artist, and storyteller Daisy Tjuparntarri Ward.

“I live on the country my family walked for generations before me.
Mum said I was born in Pirriya-Pirriya time, when the sweet flowers were growing… Every season brings something special.
Rain, Wind, Fire, Sun.
My Country changes, but it’s always home.”

If you’re looking for a way to contribute to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, you can make a donation via their website or in our bookshop.

Address

14 MacLeay Street
Elizabeth Bay, NSW
2011

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm
Saturday	9am - 6pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

+61293316642

Website

https://www.pottspointbookshop.com.au/

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