The Sun Bookshop has an extensive collection of the latest fiction, as well as a diverse range of non-fiction, travel literature and guides, arts and crafts. The Sun Bookshop is open seven days a week from 10-9.30 Monday through to Saturday and 10-6.30 on Sundays. See the Younger Sun Bookshop for children's books and opening times.
Indigenous Literacy Day
On Wednesday 1st of September, the Sun Bookshop and the Younger Sun will be donating 10% of sales to the Indigeous Literacy Project.
The Indigeonous Literacy Project aims to: raise literacy levels and thus improve the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Australians living in remote and isolated regions, raise awareness of literacy issues within the Australian community, and raise funds to equip Indigenous Australians living in remote communities with books and the support they need to become literate.
Visit their website to find out more.
Lovesong by Alex Miller wins The Age Book of the Year!
Seeking shelter in a Parisian cafe from a sudden rainstorm, John Patterner meets the exotic Sabiha and his carefully mapped life changes forever. Resonant of the bestselling Conditions of Faith, Alex Miller's brilliantly realised novel tells the deeply moving story of their lives together, and of how each came undone by desire.
Strangers did not, as a rule, find their way to Chez Dom, a small Tunisian cafe in Paris. Run by the widow Houria and her young niece, Sabiha, the cafe offers a home away from home for the North African immigrant workers at the great abattoirs of Vaugirard who, as with Houria and Sabiha themselves, have grown used to the smell of blood in the air. When one day a lost Australian tourist, John Patterner, seeks shelter in the cafe from a sudden Parisian rainstorm, a tragic love story begins to unfold.
Years later, while living a quiet life in suburban Melbourne, John Patterner is haunted by what happened to him and Sabiha at Vaugirard. He confides his story to Ken, an ageing writer, who sees in John's account the possibility for one last simple love story. When Ken tells his daughter this she reminds him, 'Love is never simple, Dad. You should know that.' He does know it. But being the writer he is, he cannot resist the lure of the story.
Told with all Miller's distinctive clarity, intelligence and compassion, Lovesong is a pitch-perfect novel, a tender and enthralling story about the intimate lives of ordinary people. Like the truly great novelist he is, Miller locates the heart of his story in the moral frailties and secret passions of his all-too-human characters.
The Prime Minister's Literary Awards Shortlist
Fiction
Summertime, J.M. Coetzee
The Book of Emmett, Deborah Forster
The Lakewoman, Alan Gould
Dog Boy, Eva Hornung
Ransom, David Malouf
Lovesong, Alex Miller
As the Earth turns Silver, Alison Wong
Non-Fiction
The Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent, Michael Cathcart
Strange Places: A Memoir of Mental Illness, Will Elliott
The Colony: A History of Early Sydney, Grace Karskens
The Life and Death of Democracy, John Keane
The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir, Mark Tredinnick
The Ghost at the Wedding, Shirley Walker
Miles Franklin
Truth, by Peter Temple (Text Publishing) won the 2010 Miles Franklin award. We loved this one!
September Bookclub: Wednesday 29th August, 8pm at Cornershop.
We will be reading Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey. Come along to discuss this fantastic, much-acclaimed book.
Events
Monday 13th September, 6 for 6.30pm : Mark Watson, UK author and comedian, will be at the Sun Theatre to celebrate his new novel Eleven. All welcome, RSVP here or on 9689 0661. Please note the venue change - Cornershop is just too small, given all of the interest in this event!
Visit our Events page for all other upcoming events.
