MacLean's Booksellers

05/09/2026

Our kids shelves are absolutely stacked with all your favourite authors and their new titles!
The Neverfear - Impossible Creatures no. 3
Star of Deltora - a beautiful new bind up of 4 stories
Ember and the Grand Metamorphosis - Ember no. 2
Songstone of the Deep - Bravepaw no. 4

04/09/2026

A very blue theme happening in this corner of the shop!
- Rachel Cusk's 'Life of M'
- Colm Tóibín's 'The Bridge'
- Alicia Upano's 'Everything to the Sea'

03/09/2026

📖 Here are our September book club books and dates! Pop them in your calendar, get reading, and we will see you there!

02/09/2026

How wonderful is this? This pocket guide is a useful tool and fun reminder of how to look at the world around you with care and close observation every day.

Use this guide to identify whether you’ve found a bee or wasp, centipede or millipede, moth or butterfly. Compare shapes of seeds, leaves, and feathers to deduce their origin. Notice snail trails, and make discoveries by turning over a leaf. Learn how to observe—listen, look, record, and collect. With its how-to guides, comic illustrations, weatherproof cover, and built-in, useful tools—such as a ruler, key, and quick access sections—this handy guide will enliven every expedition.

29/08/2026

Peter Rabbit has been our constant companion for years now, but we do find him in all sorts of odd places... Here are a few favourites!

24/08/2026

Described by Vulture as one of the most anticipated novels of 2026, and now longlisted for the Booker Prize, The Vivisectors is is a new kind of love story for a broken era.
In this wildly imaginative new novel, we follow a reclusive graduate as her attempts to navigate campus conspiracies set her on a collision course that will upend her life.

23/08/2026

21/08/2026

Archie is turning one! Join us for his birthday party on the 5th of September in store!
We will be having birthday cake and all kinds of activities, and everyone who has purchases a copy of Archie in the lead up will go into a draw to win a $100 voucher to Shindigs!

12/08/2026

New Fantasy and Horror has hit the shelves!

The Dungeon Book by Gareth Hanrahan is a warm and witty fantasy adventure about a young girl left to die in a wizard's dungeon finding a new home with the monsters around her.

The Unknown by Riley Sager is gripping, twisty thriller in his signature style. In 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now, one hundred years later, it's happening again.

11/08/2026

The charming sequel to the bestselling The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow

When A.J. 'Sandy' Mackinnon sailed a tiny dinghy through twelve countries from North Wales to the Black Sea, he survived pirates, the English Channel, international incidents and all the disasters, big and small, that can befall a little boat on a long voyage. Those adventures became his beloved bestseller The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow.

Decades later, that trip is a happy memory and Sandy is firmly back on land - until a message from a stranger presents an opportunity too good to refuse. Sandy picks up where his first voyage left off, sailing and rowing single-handedly around the coast from Romania to Venice. From Istanbul to Ithaca, Mount Olympus to the ruins of Troy, he finds himself immersed in the legends of antiquity, plays chicken with mercurial border police, and is saved more than once by the kindness of strangers. He recounts it all with his unbreakable enthusiasm and self-deprecating humour, taking the reader on a hilarious and unforgettable adventure.