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Amazing moment for Siang Lu as he wins #MFLA2025 #MILESFRANKLI

Congrats to Siang Lu winning #MFLA2025 #MILESFRANKLIN for his novel Ghost Cities, rejected 200 times over 10 years! 👏🏾🙌🏾👏🏾🙌🏾📚

They’re about to announce #MFLA2025 #MILESFRANKLIN 🤞🏾🙌🏾👏🏾📚

A black and white archive photograph of a man with a beard and cap. He has a backpack and a walking cane. There is a dog beside him and small stone steps leading out of the photograph. A large arched gate is behind him.

Picture the scene.

It's 1901. It's Paris. You make a bet with some friends that you could walk around the world, funding the entire trip by selling postcards featuring photos of YOURSELF. You set off.

This is the story of Charles Millot. Read it now at: orkneyarchive.blogspot.com

Great to find @johnkerrison.me here too!

The recording of Miles Franklin Literary Awards Gleebooks Shortlist Authors Talk is now available! Tune in to hear Winnie Dunn, Julie Janson & Siang Lu in conversation about their shortlisted works & Australian literature today.
Listen here: buff.ly/eaICZJ9
Photo: Dan Turner
@gleebooks.bsky.social

Nick Cave fans swarm charity bookshop in UK after musician donates thousands of books ‘It’s an incredibly varied donation. He clearly held on to his books, some of them are quite old,’ says bookshop worker

Nick Cave hasn’t donated any books to us but we do have many of the titles he did donate, and 1000s more. Come in and get lost in our second hand books collection! #booksky www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Fascinating, inspiring, moving, funny... just like their books! Hear 2025 #MilesFranklin shortlisted authors Winnie Dunn, Julie Janson & Siang Lu share their stories on Sydney Review of Books/UTS #auslit podcast Fully Lit w/ @sunilbadami.bsky.social at #Gleebooks! #booksky

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Big laughs, big books 📚
The MFLA Shortlist Authors Talk lit up Gleebooks with energy, truth & humour.
🎤 Dunn (Dirt Poor Islanders)
🔥 Janson (Compassion)
😂 Lu (Ghost Cities)
Read more here: buff.ly/rsvFzN8
Photo credit: Dapper Dan Photography
@gleebooks.bsky.social

Bunch of wattle in a box on a counter in a bookshop with a card that says: Dear Gleebook staff, I just want to express my sincere gratitude for all that you do... being a long time member has been such a meaningful experience. The event you organise are always excellent and through them, I've had the pleasure of meeting amazing and knowledgeable people. I have learned so much over the years and am so thnkful to be a part of such a vibrant and inspiring community. With appreciation, SUNA 2025

#book people are the best people! Look what landed on the counter this week to brighten our day!

Thank you Suna – right back atcha! Discover more inspiring and vibrant events on our events page – and see you in the shop soon! #booksky #auslit

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👏 Congrats to the shortlisted authors of #auslit premier prize 2025 #MilesFranklin Literary Award! Meet shortlisted authors Winnie Dunn, Justine Janson & Siang Lu in an exclusive showcase presented by @copyright.com.au & Perpetual next Wednesday 2 July! #booksky 📚

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Let us know how you go @lawsonvictoria.bsky.social – we're usually quicker than that! But give us a call on 02 9660 2333 or email us at orders@gleebooks.com.au and we'll jump on it!

Best of Australian Poems – Gleebooks.com.au

Join us for NSW Showcase of Best of Australian Poems 2024 @gleebooks.bsky.social on Sunday 29th June, 3pm. Free, but must RSVP. Readings from acclaimed poets: Kate Lilley, Pam Brown, Michelle Cahill, Jake Goetz, Dan Hogan, Sara M Saleh, Ali Jane Smith, and Toby Fitch gleebooks.com.au/event/best-o...

When Dark Waters Burn – Gleebooks.com.au

Thanks so much for the shout out @zenashapter.bsky.social! #loveozya and love ya work! Grab YOUR signed copy of When Dark Waters Burn in-store, or buy a copy (and When Dark Roots Hunt) online here! #booksky #auslit gleebooks.com.au/product/when...

Join us on 2 July at Gleebooks for an insightful live panel featuring three shortlisted authors in conversation. Enjoy a lively Q&A and a reception with refreshments.

Presented by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

Book your tickets here: buff.ly/p14K1fh

Only half a Moore, which is why she’s known as a “demi” Moore

A shelf of 3 books about Roger Moore, Thomas More, and Henry Moore

In the midnight hour
she cried
Moore, More, Moore

With a rebel yell
she cried
Moore, More, Moore

Callout: 2025 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowship | Sydney Review of Books In partnership with the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, the Sydney Review of Books  invites applications for the 2025 Emerging Critics Fellowship program.

Love reading? Have thoughts? @copyright.com.au Cultural Fund & Sydney Review of Books #SRB are looking for Australia's next top emerging critic with a generous stipend of $4,500 for publication in SRB. Closes 23 June. #booksky

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If you can’t spare a room, fill a pillar.

#booksky #books #design #writingcommunity

‘Men need liberation too’: do we need more male novelists? As a small press launches dedicated to new male fiction, authors including Anne Enright and Nikesh Shukla ask if men are really being pushed out of publishing

Given their dominance in every other sphere of society, do we need more male novelists? | Books | @theguardian.com

What do you think? Some acclaimed authors share their thoughts.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

#booksky

‘I felt like a puppet’: A midnight swim leads to a long-term mystery illness After the terrifying onset of profound identity loss, finding a diagnosis took years. The verdict: a condition said to affect 2 per cent of the population.

Nathan will be discussing his extraordinary story with Rebecca Huntley at Gleebooks THIS Tuesday. Tix at gleebooks.com.au/events/ – selling fast!

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Provocative, progressive and fearless: why Beatrice Faust’s views still resonate in Australia Faust is best remembered as the founder of the Women’s Electoral Lobby. But there was much more to her than just that.

Feisty, forward thinking, & fearless, Beatrice Faust paved the way for generations of fantastic feminists to follow. Join Judith Brett & Annabel Crabb as they celebrate The Fearless Beatrice Faust tomorrow at our Glebe shop! Tix here: bit.ly/3YYskXZ

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If music be the food of love, how have forces like religion, the economy, society and technology, shaped the music menu over time? Find out as Andrew Ford & Kirsty McCahon chat about A Short History of Music at their
#Gleebooks launch via Radio National's Big Ideas! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

... and that's a wrap! Another amazing, inspiring, bigger and better than ever Sydney Writers Festival has ended, featuring the world's best writers – & best read audiences! We're thrilled to be official booksellers... & exhausted after a huge week! Thanks to all our fab booksellers, #SWF... & you!

🥳Congrats to our dear friend Michelle de Kretser for deservedly winning the #StellaPrize for #TheoryandPractice. She launched #TheoryandPractice with us and came back for our #SundaySessions book club to talk about it. Brava! 👏👏👏

Given up on reading? Elif Shafak on why we still need novels Recent studies suggest we’ve fallen out of love with reading – but the more chaotic our times, the deeper is our need to slow down and read fiction

Love reading but given up on reading? We've all been there! Acclaimed author @elifsafak.bsky.social has some great tips on how to reignite your passion for books, and why we need novels, via @theguardian.com. ❤️📚

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Writer Jeanette Winterson dancing on the Gleebooks counter at Sydney Writers Festival in Carriageworks, Sydney. There are two customers at the counter being served by two staff behind three computers. Winterson is ecstatic at a big banner behind the counter of one of her quotes, reading "And one of the things that story teaches us is this: read yourself as fiction as well as fact." She is wearing black jeans, black coat, white check shirt and brown boots, with a big smile and her hands in the air.

WHS says you shouldn't dance on counters but when it's literary legend Jeanette Winterson the rules don't apply. We're proud to be Sydney Writers Festival's official bookseller. Hope we'll see you there! Check out the fantastic program and keep dancing... and reading! www.swf.org.au 💃📚