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📚 Billie King 📚Shannon Kelly-White's debut novel is exceptional - it's in the running for my favourite for the year 💜I ...
13/07/2026

📚 Billie King 📚

Shannon Kelly-White's debut novel is exceptional - it's in the running for my favourite for the year 💜

I loved the setting, the characters, the horses, the language and, of course, the story.

The character of 12 year old Billie King is so fierce and lovable - I will never forget her.

HIGHLY recommend this one to everyone!! Can't believe how lucky we are to have Shannon heading our way in September - you won't want to miss it!

Available in store and online now 😊

BLURB:
A blisteringly fast, fresh, funny and hugely entertaining novel of mothers, daughters and one gutsy wild colonial girl who gets caught up in Australia's last female bushranger's quest for revenge. Think Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife meets Trent Dalton.

1918: Australia's last bushranger, Dulcie James, holds up Anna King's falling-down farmhouse. There's a scrawny unloved infant on the floor, Anna seems more furious than frightened, and it's the bushranger who's left shaken. And the next day, Anna disappears.

Twelve years later, Anna's daughter, Billie King, is a girl ready to explode. With a missing mother, the rent in arrears and her alcoholic father's gambling debts to cover, she has no time for school. But when child services threaten to remove Billie from her father, she must decide between continuing her search for her missing mother and keeping what's left of her family together. If she fails to hold onto her father, she'll be taken away and placed in a children's home, but if she doesn't find her missing mother, who will?

📚 Author Event 📚It was a great turn out on a wintery Friday evening as we enjoyed hearing from talented authors Mark Smi...
11/07/2026

📚 Author Event 📚

It was a great turn out on a wintery Friday evening as we enjoyed hearing from talented authors Mark Smith and Sarah Bailey as they discussed their recent suspense-filled releases.

Mark spoke of his way of placing ordinary people in extraordinary situations, leaving the reader to question what they themselves would do. And how he used the motto 'don't scream when you can whisper' to share his passion for climate change and the right to protest without preaching to his audience - which he absolutely nailed.

Sarah spoke of the evolution of the news and ethics when it comes to reporters sharing the news, and the balancing act of getting the 'clicks' while still maintaining integrity. She also shared how she ended up with a dual narrative in her latest release and how she struggles to keep up when writing about technology.

It was also interesting hearing about the difference in writing Young Adult compared to Adult novels, as is Mark's experience, and the importance of writing good dialogue to move the story forward.

So much to take in, in such a short amount of time!

A huge thank you to Mark and Sarah for popping down to Meeniyan, thank you to all who attended and to Aunty Jo for supplying the much needed hot drinks on a very chilly evening.

Special shout out to mega fan Jodi who came with the entire backlist from both authors to get signed! Book people really are the BEST people!

📚 New Releases 📚Back after a few days away to boxes of goodies ready to add to the shelves:📚 The Tsubaki Stationery Stor...
09/07/2026

📚 New Releases 📚

Back after a few days away to boxes of goodies ready to add to the shelves:

📚 The Tsubaki Stationery Store by Ito Ogawa
Set to the rhythm of the four seasons and the Japanese rituals and festivities that come with them, Tsubaki Stationery Store is a charming story about the importance of community and the reconciliatory power of the written word.

📚 The Bookshop Detectives: Murder and Mojitos by Gareth & Louise Ward.
Art Deco glamour, a Cuban crime queen and a grammar-obsessed killer collide in the #1 best-selling Bookshop Detectives’ high-stakes third and final instalment.

📚 Mire by Matt Nable
A page-turning thriller, Mire takes us from the testosterone-fuelled stock market floor in 1980s Sydney to the coastal green hills of the NSW South Coast and onto the Mafia-ruled streets of New York. The body count is high - and the stakes are even higher.

📚 He Who Fights With Monsters by Shirtaloon
A LitRPG adventure with magic, monsters and mystery. Exciting, hilarious, irreverent and action-packed.

🧩 Well-Read Cats Jigsaw
A 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle, reimagining eight literary classics with a unique feline spin.

All available in store and online now 😊

📚 Altered Hours 📚Dear lovely customers,Open tomorrow (Sunday) as usual before a 3 day break.CLOSED: Mon, Tues, Wed Retur...
04/07/2026

📚 Altered Hours 📚

Dear lovely customers,

Open tomorrow (Sunday) as usual before a 3 day break.

CLOSED: Mon, Tues, Wed

Returning Thursday at 9am

😊

📚 New Releases for the Kids 📚From Picture Books through to Young Adult, there is something for everyone to enjoy over th...
01/07/2026

📚 New Releases for the Kids 📚

From Picture Books through to Young Adult, there is something for everyone to enjoy over the school holidays.

A huge highlight is the sixth and final book in the Heartstopper series for teens, read it before the movie drops on Netflix later in the month!

All available in store and online 💚

📚 New Release Stacks 📚A jumbo release week means the shelves are loaded for all of you lovely readers to take your pick!...
01/07/2026

📚 New Release Stacks 📚

A jumbo release week means the shelves are loaded for all of you lovely readers to take your pick!

These ones are for the grown ups - all available both in store and online now 💚

So many great books on offer, I'll share some of my favourites over the coming days but Billie King by Shannon Kelly-White is a huge stand-out!

Happy Reading!





📚 Click 📚A woman dead...two missing. An unpredictable killer. A city on edge.Sarah Bailey's new release CLICK follows on...
28/06/2026

📚 Click 📚

A woman dead...two missing.
An unpredictable killer.
A city on edge.

Sarah Bailey's new release CLICK follows on from The Housemate with reporter Olive Groves trying to solve a cryptic crime.

If you haven't read The Housemate, it doesn't matter at all. Easily read Click as a standalone - although I'm very much hoping for another book in this series asap!

If you have enjoyed Ashley Kalagian Blunt's Dark Mode and Cold Truth, with the dark web at its core, then this book is for you.

I can't wait to hear all about Sarah's process and planning when she visits Meeniyan on July 10th with Mark Smith, as she has plotted this story so meticulously with two timelines running alongside eachother in real time - it blows my mind.

Tickets are available in store and online now to secure your seat!

📚 New Releases 📚Available in store and online now!📚 The Housemaid's Wedding by Freida McFaddenA short story - Wedding be...
24/06/2026

📚 New Releases 📚

Available in store and online now!

📚 The Housemaid's Wedding by Freida McFadden
A short story - Wedding bells chime in this thrilling addition to The Housemaid series.

📚 The Midnight Train by Matt Haig
Special Edition hardback, signed by Matt Haig with stunning sprayed edges 💙

📚 Regime Change by Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan
A riveting, intimate and revelatory account of the most radical and consequential presidency of our time. From the two reporters who have covered him more closely than perhaps anyone else over the past decade.

📚 Nowhere House by Adrian Beck
A cursed house. A decades-old mystery. A brother and sister on the edge. A gripping twisty thriller that will keep readers guessing till the end. Ages 10+

📚 Emerald Academy: School of Oz by Laura Sieveking
Welcome to Emerald Academy: School of Oz, featuring Emily Gale, the daughter of Dorothy. Ages 10+

📚 Baby-Sitters Club Fan Edition: Baby-Sitter Summer
Written by Ann M. Martin and a cast of six BSC-loving authors, each writing a single character, Baby-Sitter Summer is the launch of BSC Fan Edition, a new series perfect for big fans and readers who've grown up with The Baby-sitters Club and want to return to Stoneybrook to see what happens next! Ages 9+

📚 The Mother Goose Treasury
Celebrate 60 years of the creator of The Snowman, Raymond Briggs’s, ultimate nursery rhyme collection, The Mother Goose Treasury with this beautiful foiled edition.

📚 The Time After Now 📚💜These beauties are about to hit the shelves and I cannot wait to share them with you!Many moons a...
19/06/2026

📚 The Time After Now 📚

💜These beauties are about to hit the shelves and I cannot wait to share them with you!

Many moons ago I was delighted to be contacted by Anne to read her debut novel Returning to Adelaide. I absolutely loved it and jumped aboard the Anne Freeman train and continue to enjoy everything she has created.

Anne has really upped her game with The Time After Now. She has perfectly captured the nostalgia of your party years and the life shift into parenthood and responsibility, while also shining a much-needed light on what it’s like living with type 1 diabetes.

Anne has taken the relatability of motherhood in Returning to Adelaide and the unapologetic rawness of Me That You See to create this super-novel.

She has fast become one of my favourite authors and is a ripper of a person I now call a friend 🥰🥰

Anne will be joining us in Meeniyan later in the year!

Available now in store and online 💜💛

💛BLURB
Every Picture Tells.

If Olivia hadn’t done what she did, would Drew still be alive?

Twenty years after the love affair Olivia never got over, Drew dies suddenly on a shoot in Iceland, taking with him the promise to guard their intimate photos. When the images resurface with an anonymous threat of exposure, Olivia’s picture-perfect suburban life is thrown into jeopardy. How can she keep playing the flawless barrister’s wife if her past of avant-garde art, warehouse raves, drugs, and debauchery comes to light?

Desperate for counsel, she prepares to confide in her best friend but Miriam needs support with her own challenges, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Can Olivia outrun her past to protect her future, or will she be forced to reconcile the vibrant oil painting she once was with the fading watercolour she’s become?

An Own Voices portrayal of disability examining the ripple effects of decisions made in our youth.

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93 Whitelaw Street
Meeniyan, VIC
3956

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Thursday 9am - 3:30pm
Friday 9am - 3:30pm
Saturday 10am - 3pm
Sunday 10am - 3pm

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