Better Read Than Dead

For me it's the best book store in Newtown. Large collection of SciFi. You might get better prices somewhere else, but for some reason I'll always do my shopping here.

I've loved this place since I first started visiting in the 1990s. It's still just as much fun, with a wide variety of books in a relatively small space, along with stationery and cards, etc. Not the cheapest but then you can go for dinner, then coffee and cake, then a movie at the Dendy, and then browse the books in Better Read Than Dead, all without walking more than a few hundred metres. Always worth a browse :)

Attend book club here every now and then. Lovely local bookshop with amazing staff and great use of social media. Whoever said the bookshop was dead

Fantastic selection, great atomphere. I liked the staff reviews and recommendations.

Really cool book store. Interesting selections

One of the best bookstores in Sydney. Great variety, helpful staff - always great for a browse after dinner/before a movie.

Lovely books for good prices in charming atmosphere.

Great Staff and books!!

Gorgeous place with knowledgeable staff and a good selection of books. Definitely worth wandering upstairs to browse through the photography section.

It's nice to see a book store doing well after so many have had troubles. Bright and well merchandised.

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Head to our Love Your Bookshop Day event page to enter our #whyIlovemybookshop giveaway and win a $50 BRTD voucher!

Our first 100 customers on Love Your Bookshop Day will receive a Love Your Bookshop Day tote bag! We’ll also have LYBD cupcakes, competitions and costumes, so visit us in store next Saturday the 11th and help us celebrate everything that makes local businesses so great. #whyilovemybookshop Love Your Bookshop

Maria Dahvana Headley will be joining us in-store on Tuesday 28th August at 6.30pm to discuss her powerful new novel, The Mere Wife, and how and why she came to write it. The book had an amazing write up in this weekend's Sydney Morning Herald!
To RSVP, head to www.betterreadevents.com

Our top ten bestsellers; featuring 5 of this week’s event titles! One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton will be launched tonight at the Marlborough Hotel and has already topped the list.
1. One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton (Melbourne University Publishing) 2. Less by Andrew Sean Greer 3. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman ... 4. Retribution by Richard Anderson (Scribe Publications) 5. The Botanist's Daughter by Kayte Nunn Author (Hachette Australia Books) 6. The Rapids by Sam Twyford-Moore (NewSouth Books) 7. The Geography of Friendship by Sally Piper - Writer (University of Queensland Press) 8. Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe (Magabala Books) 9. Calypso by David Sedaris 10. Scrublands by Chris Hammer (Allen & Unwin Books)
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Introducing our August Book of the Month; Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers!
Mischa says; This mesmerising literary speculative novel from one of my all-time-favourite sci-fi authors is a quiet, yet deeply profound exploration of the human condition. Whilst it is not action packed with space explosions or intergalactic battles, Becky Chambers' new novel is heavy with meaning; exploring issues of gender and race equality, sentience, and freedom of choice through an e...ffortlessly humane lens. Chambers has an intricate understanding of how humans are flawed, which makes for incredibly diverse and engaging characters; by the end of the book you feel as though you've known them and the world they live in with great intimacy. This book will make you appreciate what it means to be human. My favourite read of 2018 so far!
Megan says; A warm, hopeful and beautifully human exploration of the nature of humanity and community in extraordinary circumstances. A love letter to both the itch to explore and the desire to come home.
Emily says; Becky Chambers returns! Her scifi books are incredible, tying together seemingly random people through her multiple perspectives. Her vision of the future is just amazing and I could reread them forever more. Record of a Spaceborn Few is no exception. The characters are fantastic, and their stories so very human (even when the characters themselves aren't). Another astonishing addition to her marvelous oeuvre.
Purchase a copy in-store or online; http://www.betterread.com.au/…/record-o f-a-spaceborn-few-wa…
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Introducing our August Books of the Month!

This Thursday we’ll be joined by Dr Sarah McKay of Your Brain Health at our Dr Tash Book Club meeting! Join us at 6.30pm, whether you’ve read the book or not. We hope to see you there! Hachette Australia Books

Krissy Kneen is the award-winning author of memoir Affection, and fiction: the Stella prize shortlisted novel An Uncertain Grace, Steeplechase, Triptych, The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine, as well as the Thomas Shapcott Award-winning poetry collection Eating My Grandmother. She has written and directed broadcast documentaries for SBS and ABC Television.
Join Krissy Kneen, in-conversation with Benjamin Law, for a conversation about her latest novel W...intering!
About the Book When Jessica’s partner disappears into the dark Tasmanian forest, there is of course the mystery of what happened to him—the deserted car, the enigmatic final image recorded on his phone. There is the strange circle of local women, widows of disappeared men, with their edgy fellowship and unhinged theories. And the forest itself: looming hugely over this tiny settlement on the remote tip of the island.
But for Jessica there is also the tight community in which she is still a stranger and Matthew was not. What secrets do they know about her own life, that she doesn’t. And why do they believe things that should not—cannot—be true. For her own sanity, Jessica needs to know two things. Who was Matthew? And who—or what—has he become?
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EXTRA EXTRA: We're launching a new writing competition for adults! Click on the link for more info :) You've got until the end of August to submit your stories or memoirs so get writing! Xx https://www.facebook.com/events/650899745 247905/

The Mars Room made the Man Booker Longlist!
https://www.theguardian.com/…/man-booke r-prize-2018-longlis…

A luscious celebration of baking for life, love and happiness!
Join Nadine Ingram, of Flour and Stone bakery, for a special high tea celebrating the release of her first cookbook! The high tea will feature a number of recipes straight from the book and be served alongside champagne, tea and scones.
Flour and Stone is a petite bakery in inner-city Sydney with a large and devoted following for its panna cotta lamingtons, flaky croissants, chewy cookies, dreamy cakes and delecta...ble pastries of every kind.
Nadine Ingram and her dedicated team bake with finesse and love to bring pleasure to the city. In this book Nadine shares her signature recipes, all carefully explained and rigorously tested for the home kitchen.
Family, in every sense, is at the heart of Flour and Stone — this recipe collection is given in the hope that you will nurture your own loved ones with the timeless, comforting art of baking. These are the treats you’ll want to eat for the rest of your life.
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Reminiscent of Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn, The Children's House is a breakthrough novel from a humane and perceptive writer exploring the traumas that divide families and the love and hope that creates them. Alice Nelson skilfully weaves together these shared stories of displacement and trauma into a beautifully told, hope-filled, outstanding novel.
Join Alice Nelson in celebration of the release of The Children's House, over a high tea of sandwiches, scones, champagne and sweets....
“Alice Nelson has written that rare kind of novel that sets off sparks in the mind long after finishing. A book of unwavering intelligence that probes the most haunted parts of the psyche, Nelson circumnavigates trauma without succumbing to the temptation to dispel it. The Children’s House is an elegant and finely tuned work that hums with condensed life.” - Stephanie Bishop
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A big, bold and hauntingly beautiful story that captures a defining moment in Australia's history. Shell captures a world on the brink of seismic change though the eyes of two unforgettable characters caught in the eye of the storm.
Join Kristina Olsson, in-conversation with Charlotte Wood, to celebrate the release of Shell over a high tea of scones, sweets, sandwiches and champagne.
Kristina Olsson is a journalist and the award-winning author of the novels Shell, In One Skin..., and The China Garden, and two works of nonfiction, Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir and Kilroy was Here. She lives in Brisbane, Australia.
Charlotte Wood is the author of five novels and two books of non-fiction, and co-director of The Creativity Clinic for writing courses. Her latest novel, The Natural Way of Things, won the 2016 Stella Prize, the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Indie Book of the Year.
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