Readings St Kilda
Manager: Scott Noble | Phone 03 9525 3852 | Email RSS feed
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.
Get to know the St Kilda Staff
Scott
Noble
Manager, Readings St Kilda
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Miles
Allinson
Bookseller
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recommends »
Will
Heyward
Bookseller
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Will recommends »
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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Storytime Favourites
The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew it Was Non of His Business →
Werner Holzwarth, Wolf Erlbruch
$14.95
New York Review of Books
Paris Stories
$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
$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
$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
$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→
Archipelago Books
Education by Stone →
Melo Neto,Joao Cabral de, Richard Zenith, Joao Cabral De Melo Neto, Joo Cabral De Melo Neto
$30.95
Alma Classics
The Blind Owl
$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
$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
$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
$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→
