Wine, cheese, and 15% off books! 🤩 Join our FREE Teacher’s Night event to hear authors Michael Lawrence and Fabio D’Agostin discuss how the treatment of teachers shapes the learning experience, and how schools can inspire creativity and critical thinking, or be stifled by control and standardisation ✨

Based on their experiences in Australian and Finnish schools, the authors push for meaningful reform where every student can thrive, and teaching is a respected, vital profession.

Wine and cheese provided! Teachers receive 15% off books on the night.

Grab your free spot through our Trybooking link in our bio! ❤️

✨ DATE
Thu 8 May 2025 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM (UTC+10)

✨LOCATION
The Chestnut Tree Bookshop
542 Barkly St, West Footscray VIC 3012

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Pair your Mother’s Day gifts with the perfect card 🥰 Whether the vibe you’re going for is cute, dainty, or punny, we’ve got something Mom will love! ❤️ Don’t forget to drop by the shop (irl or online) to see what else we’ve got to help you celebrate the perfect Mother’s Day ✨

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Host your next event at the bookshop! ❤️✨ If you’re looking for a space for a book launch or poetry night, for a birthday gathering or any other event, we would love to host you! 🥰 With a range of offerings and services, we are thrilled to help make your next event a very special occasion!

Swipe to view our events package and details on what we are able to provide; including tea and coffee, wine, and food catered by Harley & Rose 🤩
If you have any queries, or would like to book your next event, shoot us an email at hello@thechestnuttree.com.au ❤️

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✨ May General Book Club Announcement ✨ This month, we’re reading Colony by Annika Norlin. Book Club will be held on Wednesday, the 21st of May at 7pm.

More about Colony~
Ants live in communities, where everyone helps out. Everyone has a task for the community ... Everyone is needed. No one has to know everything.

One morning, Emelie can’t get out of bed. Her therapist calls it burnout. Her neighbour calls it the tiny work death. She needs to get away from the brightness of the city lights, the noise of the people, the constant demands, so she goes to the woods, pitches her tent overlooking the lake, breathes.

And that’s where she sees them, the Colony- A man with a sad face. A tall, strong, older woman. A woman in her forties, squatting to examine an ant hill. Another woman in her forties, short, long hair, ample bosom, good posture - the leader? An extremely beautiful man. A slightly younger man, in a Helly Hansen jacket and trucker hat. And a teenage boy, standing a little way from the group. Who are they? What do they mean to each other? And why do they behave in such strange ways- thanking the fish they eat, sleeping under a tree, singing off key, dancing without music, never letting the boy fully in?

As Emelie becomes more and more drawn to the Colony, she begins to re-evaluate her own lifestyle. Wouldn’t it be nice to live as these seven do? Apart from society and its expectations. But groups always have their dynamics and roles. Which are you? And what if you want to change?

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Did someone say FREE books? 🫢🫢 Every book purchase gets you a bookmark to rate your latest read! Drop it back to us, and you’re in the running to WIN 10 FREE BOOKS from the seasonal reading guide at the end of the year! 🤩✨ And yes, even the kids can join in! Happy reading, everyone! ❤️

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🐰🎉 Get into the Easter spirit with our egg-citing Easter egg hunt (Ha ha, get it.. cause we’re hiding eggs..🫣) From April 18-21, we’ll be hiding 100 delicious chocolate eggs all around the store. Bring your friends and family to join in the sweet fun! Don’t miss out! ❤️🍫

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📚💕 If you haven’t heard already, the 2025 Stella Prize shortlist has been released and it’s filled with brilliant women of color! ✨

“This year’s shortlist is consequential for Australian literary history, as it is the first time the Stella Shortlist features only women of colour. Now in its 13th year, these works showcase an incredible command of craft and understanding of our uncertain time. These works are riveting, and they stood out to the judging panel for their integrity, compassion and fearlessness.” – Astrid Edwards, Chair of Judges 2025

We hope youre just as thrilled to dive into these reads as we are. Swipe to learn more about each book ❤️

The 2025 Stella Prize Shortlist:
The Burrow by Melanie Cheng
Cactus Pear For My Beloved by Samah Sabawi
Black Witness by Amy McQuire
Black Convicts by Santilla Chingaipe
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser
Translations by Jumaana Abdu

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What’s one book everyone should read at least once in their life? ✨ This time around, we have our lovely booksellers, Edith and Donita! ❤️ Their picks include The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom 🥰 What about you? Any must-reads we should know about?

✨ More about The Hunger Games Collection
In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TV show called the Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. A four-book box set featuring stunning new editions of the award-winning and best-selling dystopian survival series, The Hunger Games. Includes: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

✨ More about Tuesdays With Morrie
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it? For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn’t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final ‘class’: lessons in how to live.

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Free event alert! 🤩 Join authors Clayton Zane Comber and Conor McCammon in store for a very special storytime to celebrate the launch of their children’s book series ‘The Marvellous Submarine’ ✨

In this very funny and irresistibly silly junior fiction book, The Bad Guys meet The Treehouse series, but in a brilliantly invented submarine. Readers, be warned! This book is set on Monkey Island and contains a super-smart gorilla called Harold, two regular kids called Poppy and Billy, and the world’s greatest inventor.

✨ DATE
Wed 23 Apr 2025 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (UTC+10)

✨ LOCATION
The Chestnut Tree Bookshop
542 Barkly St, WEST FOOTSCRAY VIC 3012

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📚💕 Today, we put Amelia and Reem on the spot with a tricky question: What’s one book everyone should read at least once in their life? ✨ Their picks include A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, and a special shoutout to Warren Kirk’s Westography! 🥰 What about you? Any must-reads we should know about?

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Make this the year you DON’T cram that mother’s day present ✨ We’re here to help you celebrate the wonderful mothers and mother figures in your life. From planning a relaxing day in bed to preparing a home cooked meal, we’ve got you! 😌 Share your plans with us! We’d love to hear how you’re making their day extra special ❤️

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Our pick for April’s Decolonise Your Shelf Book Club is ‘Chinese Postman’ by Brian Castro ✨ Book Club will be held on Thursday, the 24th of April at 7pm.

About the book~
Abraham Quin is in his mid-seventies, a migrant, thrice-divorced, a one-time postman and professor, a writer now living alone in the Adelaide Hills. In The Chinese Postman he reflects on his life with what he calls ‘the mannered and meditative inaction of age’, offering up memories and anxieties, obsessions and opinions, his thoughts on solitude, writing, friendship and time. He ranges widely, with curiosity and feeling, digressing and changing direction as suits his experience, and his role as a collector of fragments and a surveyor of ruins. He becomes increasingly engaged in an epistolary correspondence with Iryna Zarebina, a woman seeking refuge from the war in Ukraine. As the correspondence opens him to others, the elaboration of his memories tempers his melancholy with a playful enjoyment in the richness of language, and a renewed appreciation of the small events in nature. This understanding of the experience of old age is something new and important in our literature. As Quin comments, ‘In Australia, the old made way for the young. It guaranteed a juvenile legacy.’

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