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Having traded on Acland Street for close to twenty years, previously as the independent Cosmos, our St Kilda store is one of the community’s longest-running businesses. Our selection includes a wide range of books by Australian and international authors, encompassing literature, history, art and design, travel, cookery, children’s books and more. A diverse range of popular DVDs and CDs are stocked, with new release vinyl records a specialty.

In addition, Readings St Kilda supports numerous independent publishers such as Affirm Press, Going Down Swinging, Sleepers and many other locally produced journals. Local writers and artists are encouraged to leave consignment stock of their work and become involved in the various book launches, book clubs, exhibitions and music performances each month.

By tracing these connections between art, literature, music and film, we hope to promote conversation between readers and arts lovers in the St Kilda community and beyond.


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Scott Noble
Manager, Readings St Kilda
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Bookseller
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Bookseller
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Gerard Elson
Bookseller and DVD Specialist
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Declan Murphy
Music Specialist
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Angela Crocombe
Children's & YA Book Specialist
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Jessica Au
Bookseller and Readings Monthly Editor
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Readings St Kilda Book Club

To go on a waiting list to join a book club or for more information please contact Belle Katavatis on 9525 3852 or by email.

Readings St Kilda Story Time

Drop in for Story Time, every Thursday, from 10.30am to 11.00am.

For children aged 2 – 5 year old. Free event, no need to book.

Please note: This is not a child-minding service. We ask that parents stay with their children for the reading. To find out more please call us on (03) 9525 3852.


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French Language Books

Un Roman Russe

Un Roman Russe →

Emmanuel Carrere

$19.55

La Carte Et Le Territoire

La Carte Et Le Territoire →

HOUELLEBECQ MICHEL

$20.00

Purge  

Purge →

Sofi Oksanen

$20.00

Retour A Killybegs

Retour A Killybegs →

CHALANDON SORJ

$18.00

Contes Dun Autre Genre

Contes Dun Autre Genre →

AYMON GAEL

$28.50

Biographie De La Faim

Biographie De La Faim →

Amelie Nothomb, Nothomb

$17.00


St Kilda Recommends: Books

Suicide

Suicide →

Edouard Leve, Jan Steyn

$17.95

The Infatuations

The Infatuations →

Javier Marias, Margaret Jull Costa

$29.99

Review
My Last Sigh: The Autobiography of Luis Bunuel

My Last Sigh: The Autobiography of Luis Bunuel →

Luis Bunuel, Abigail Israel

$21.95

Benito Cereno  

Benito Cereno →

Herman Melville

$14.95

Before I Burn

Before I Burn →

Gaute Heivoll, Don Bartlett

$27.99

Freya of the Seven Isles

Freya of the Seven Isles →

Joseph Conrad

$16.95


St Kilda Recommends: Music

Push The Sky Away

Push The Sky Away →

Nick Cave, The Bad Seeds

$21.95

Review
From The Ground Up

From The Ground Up →

FULLBRIGHT JOHN

$21.95

Big Inner

Big Inner →

WHITE MATTHEW E

$16.95

Minute By Minute

Minute By Minute →

HUNTER JAMES SIX

$21.95

Review
Allah Las

Allah Las →

ALLAH LAS

$19.95


St Kilda Recommends: DVDs

Fantastic Mr Fox Dvd

Fantastic Mr Fox Dvd →

$39.95

Skyfall Dvd

Skyfall Dvd →

MENDES SAM

$29.95

Master Dvd

Master Dvd →

THOMAS ANDERSON PAUL

$19.95

Hour Series 1 Dvd

Hour Series 1 Dvd →

MORGAN ABI

$29.95

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (DVD)

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (DVD) →

Lisa Immordino Vreeland

$29.95

Ottolenghi's Mediterranean Feast (DVD)

Ottolenghi's Mediterranean Feast (DVD) →

Yotam Ottolenghi

$29.95


Storytime Favourites

The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew it Was Non of His Business

The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew it Was Non of His Business →

Werner Holzwarth, Wolf Erlbruch

$14.95

The Family Hour in Australia

The Family Hour in Australia →

Tai Snaith

$24.95

Review
Olivia and the Fairy Princesses

Olivia and the Fairy Princesses →

Ian Falconer

$24.95

Tabby McTat

Tabby McTat →

Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler

$15.99

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman →

Ralph Cosentino

$16.95

I Spy Under the Sea...

I Spy Under the Sea... →

Edward Gibbs

$13.99


Penguin Drop Caps

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice →

Jane Austen, Jessica Hische

$24.99

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre →

Charlotte Bronte, Jessica Hische

$24.99

My Antonia

My Antonia →

Willa Cather, Jessica Hische

$24.99

Great Expectations

Great Expectations →

Charles Dickens, Jessica Hische

$24.99

Middlemarch

Middlemarch →

George Eliot, Jessica Hische

$24.99

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary →

Gustave Flaubert, Jessica Hische, Lydia Davis

$24.99


Granta

Ways of Going Home

Ways of Going Home →

Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell

$27.99

Review
Leaving the Atocha Station

Leaving the Atocha Station →

Ben Lerner

$27.99

Review
Train Dreams

Train Dreams →

Denis Johnson

$24.99

Review

Emue Books

Ossobuco

Ossobuco →

Andrea Marcelli

$29.95

Silvio Blues (Bilingual French-Italian)

Silvio Blues (Bilingual French-Italian) →

Andrea Marcelli

$29.95

Le Doigt De L'Historienne

Le Doigt De L'Historienne →

Ray Parnac

$29.95

Treize

Treize →

Irina Teodorescu

$29.95

Le Soleil DES Balkans

Le Soleil DES Balkans →

Alexandre Sredojevic

$29.95

L'Ora(n)Ge

L'Ora(n)Ge →

Emilio Sciarrino

$24.95


Seagull Books

My Mother's Lover

My Mother's Lover →

Urs Widmer, Donal McLaughlin

$28.95

Prose

Prose →

Thomas Bernhard, Martin Chalmers

$23.95

Kite

Kite →

Dominique Edde, Ros Schwartz

$35.95

Tramp: Or the Art of Living a Wild and Poetic Life

Tramp: Or the Art of Living a Wild and Poetic Life →

Tomas Espedal, James Anderson

$36.95

All the Roads are Open: The Afghan Journey

All the Roads are Open: The Afghan Journey →

Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Isabel Fargo Cole

$19.95

Noah

Noah →

Hugo Loetscher, Samuel P. Willcocks

$26.95


Melville House

The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars

The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars →

Maurice Dekobra, Neal Wainwright

$19.95

The Right Way To Do Wrong  

The Right Way To Do Wrong →

Harry Houdini, Teller

$21.95

The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl

The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl →

Italo Svevo

$12.95

The Story Of My Assassins

The Story Of My Assassins →

Tarun J. Tejpal

$49.95

Brenner And God  

Brenner And God →

Wolf Haas, Annie Janusch

$20.95


Melville House Art of the Novella Series

The Pathseeker

The Pathseeker →

Imre Kertesz

$22.95

Sandokan

Sandokan →

Nanni Balenstrini

$19.95

Lucinella

Lucinella →

Lore Segal

$19.95

The North of God

The North of God →

Steve Stern

$17.95

The Death of the Author

The Death of the Author →

Gilbert Adair

$19.95

Union Jack  

Union Jack →

Imre Kertesz

$18.95


New Directions

Microscripts

Microscripts →

Robert Walser, Susan Bernosfky, Maira Kalman

$34.95

Splendid Conspiracy

Splendid Conspiracy →

Albert Cossery, Alyson Waters

$21.95

Time of Useful Consciousness

Time of Useful Consciousness →

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

$27.95

The Poems of Octavio Paz

The Poems of Octavio Paz →

Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger

$55.95

Nox  

Nox →

Anne Carson

$42.95

Lightning Rods

Lightning Rods →

Helen Dewitt

$20.95


New Directions Pearl Series

Places of My Infancy

Places of My Infancy →

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Archibald Colquhoun

$14.95

The Walk

The Walk →

Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky

$13.95

The Hall of the Singing Caryatids

The Hall of the Singing Caryatids →

Victor Pelevin, Andrew Broomfield

$12.95

On Booze

On Booze →

F. Scott Fitzgerald

$15.95

The Leviathan

The Leviathan →

Joseph Roth

$14.95

Patriotism  

Patriotism →

Yukio Mishima

$13.95


Dalkey Archive Press

The Girl in the Photograph

The Girl in the Photograph →

Lygia Fagundes Telles, Margaret A Neves, Earl E Fitz

$17.95

Inland

Inland →

Gerald Murnane

$19.95

Flowers of Grass

Flowers of Grass →

Takehiko Fukunaga, Royall Tyler

$22.95

Replacement

Replacement →

Tor Ulven, Kerri A. Pierce

$17.95

Building Waves

Building Waves →

Taeko Tomioka, Louise Heal Kawai

$22.95

P's Three Women

P's Three Women →

Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes, Margaret A. Neves

$17.95


New York Review of Books

Paris Stories

Paris Stories
Mavis Gallant, Michael Ondaatje

$23.95 – Paperback / The New York Review of Books, Inc

Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. This collection of fifteen of Gallant s best stories comprise a secret history, both intimate and... Buy or find out more


Travellers Tree A Journey Through The Caribbean Islands

Travellers Tree A Journey Through The Caribbean Islands
Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Costa, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

$27.95 – Paperback / New York Review of Books

A great of twentieth century literature, now known to generations for A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water Buy or find out more



The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick  

The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwick, Darryl Pinckney

$21.95 – Paperback / The New York Review of Books, Inc

This first collection of Hardwick's short fiction reveals her brilliance as a stylist and as an observer of contemporary life. Buy or find out more


Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture  

Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
Daniel Mendelsohn

$34.95 – Hardback / New York Review of Books

In Waiting for the Barbarians, Daniel Mendelsohn--hailed by The Economist as one of the finest critics writing in the English language today--brings together twenty-four of his recent critical essays. Buy or find out more




Pushkin Press

Artificial Snow

Artificial Snow →

Florian Zeller, Sue Rose

$24.95

I Was Behind You

I Was Behind You →

Nicolas Fargues, Sue Rose

$29.95

About Time

About Time →

Simona Sparaco, Howard Curtis

$21.95

Journey by Moonlight

Journey by Moonlight →

Antal Szerb, Len Rix

$19.95

Three Lives: A Biography of Stefan Zweig

Three Lives: A Biography of Stefan Zweig →

Oliver Matuschek, Allan Blunden

$49.95


Archipelago Books

In Red

In Red →

Magdalena Tulli, Bill Johnston

$30.95

Review
Education by Stone

Education by Stone →

Melo Neto,Joao Cabral de, Richard Zenith, Joao Cabral De Melo Neto, Joo Cabral De Melo Neto

$30.95

Plants Don't Drink Coffee

Plants Don't Drink Coffee →

Unai Elorriaga, Amaia Gabantxo

$30.95

Journal of an Ordinary Grief

Journal of an Ordinary Grief →

Mahmoud Darwish, Professor Ibrahim Muhawi

$30.95

The Waitress Was New

The Waitress Was New →

Dominique Fabre

$29.95

Flaw

Flaw →

Magdalena Tulli, Bill Johnston

$27.95


Alma Classics

The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl
Sadegh Hedayat, D. P. Costello

$19.99 – Paperback / Alma Books Ltd

Originally written in Persian, The Blind Owl is predominantly a love story, an unconventional love story that elicits visions and nightmare reveries from the depths of the reader's subconscious. A young man, an old man and a... Buy or find out more


Tender is the Night

Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald

$14.99 – Paperback / Alma Books Ltd

Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the most talked-about books of the year. "It's amazing how excellent much of it is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now," John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald,... Buy or find out more



The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

$14.99 – Paperback / Alma Books Ltd

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay... Buy or find out more


To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf

$19.99 – Paperback / Alma Books Ltd

When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her... Buy or find out more




Twisted Spoon

I City

I City →

Pavel Brycz, Joshua Cohen, Marketa Hofmeisterova

$33.95

Primeval And Other Times

Primeval And Other Times →

Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones

$21.95

Passive Vampire

Passive Vampire →

Luca Gherasim, Fijalkowski Krzysztof

$24.95

Junkie Love

Junkie Love →

Phil Shoenfelt, Jolana Izbicka

$21.95

Total Fears

Total Fears →

Bohumil Hrabal, James Naughton

$24.95

A Hunger Artist

A Hunger Artist →

Franz Kafka, Kevin Blahut, Helena Vlcnovska

$21.95


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