Melbourne Bookshops

Melbourne boasts more bookshops per head than anywhere else in Australia. Visit the Paperback Bookshop in the heart of Melbourne, or suburban shops like Avenue Bookstore at Albert Park and Robinson's Books in Frankston. Still can't find what you're looking for? Then seek out Readings – perhaps the most significant, and certainly the largest independent bookshop in Australia.

Specialist bookshops thrive in Melbourne too:

• Foreign Language Bookshop
• China Books
• Andrew Isles Natural History Books
• Books for Cooks
• TS Bookshop (esoteric)
• Golds (Judaica)
• Hylands (military history)
• Metropolis (design and photography)
• Rendezvous (romance)
• Kill City (crime fiction)
• Polyester (counter-culture)
• Minotaur (graphic novels, science fiction and comics)

Two other bookshops are beacons to readers from around the country: Collected Works; and Hares & Hyenas. Hares & Hyenas is a queer bookshop, producing many spoken word events. Collected Works is the most substantial retail outlet for poetry in Australasia – a one-of-a-kind shop specialising in poetry and ideas.