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10/06/2026

📚 Where Truth Ends 📚

I was completely hooked from the opening scene of Mark Smith's latest novel. It has everything you could want in a suspense-filled crime story:
📚 Fast paced
📚 Surprising twists
📚 Believable and relatable characters
📚 Absolutely loved the Aussie setting
When I wasn't reading this story I felt like I was under surveillance, I was so entrenched in this mystery and the paranoia!

Very excited to have Mark coming down to Meeniyan next month on July 10th with Sarah Bailey.

Tickets available in store and online now 😊

📚 BLURB 📚
Meg Maher thought she was doing the right thing. Now she's on the run.

When a peaceful climate protest ends with a violent explosion in the city centre, every member of the protest group becomes a suspect. The incident is declared a terrorist attack.

But the authorities aren't the only ones hunting Meg.

Scared and alone, Meg seeks refuge with her father, Luke, knowing that every word she says puts him in danger too. But as the terrorism investigation closes in, Meg is forced to question everything: her friends, her cause, even herself. Was her group of activists infiltrated from the start? Or has someone twisted their mission beyond recognition?

What happens when the truth is the first thing to burn?

Where Truth Ends is a taut, character-driven thriller by award-winning author of Three Boys Gone Mark Smith, about what happens when the fight for change becomes a fight for survival.

08/06/2026

📚 Author Event 📚

Next month we welcome MARK SMITH and SARAH BAILEY to Meeniyan to discuss their recent gripping novels 'Where Truth Ends' and 'Click'.

Friday July 10th, 6.30pm
Meeniyan Hall

🎟 Tickets available in store and online now!

05/06/2026

📚 New Releases 📚

A handful of newbies for the shelf:

📚 The Palace of Lost Virtue by Anthea Hodgson
By the bestselling author of The War Nurses, this is an unforgettable new novel set in the WA goldrush era inspired by real characters and a shocking true crime.

📚 Land by Maggie O'Farrell
From the bestselling author of Hamnet comes an epic portrait of a family navigating the legacy of Ireland's Great Hunger, Land is Maggie O'Farrell at her spellbinding, inimitable best.

📚 Whistler by Ann Patchett
A moving, luminous story about how family, memory and love endures, Whistler paints an intimate portrait of how the feeling of being known by one other person, even for a short period of time, can change everything.

📚 All Grown Up by Daisy Buchanan
A brilliantly heartfelt and funny novel of family life in all its chaos and glory, inspired by Little Women.

📚 The Shadow Reaper by Lynette Noni
Full of relentless twists, enemies-to-lovers romance, found family, and high stakes action, Shadow Reaper is the start of a breathtaking new YA duology from international bestselling author Lynette Noni.

All available in store and online now 😊

04/06/2026

📚 Autumn Top Ten 📚

As winter officially hits us over the head, here's a look back at the most popular books for Autumn 2026:

1. A Haunting at Venus Bay by Julie Brooks
2. Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
3. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
4. The Butterfly Women by Madeleine Cleary
5. Beartown by Fredrik Backman
6. The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton
7. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
8. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
9. A Far-Flung Life by ML Stedman
10. The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage

Have you read any of these?
Hope you're keeping warm today 😊

31/05/2026

📚 Local Author Spotlight 📚

Kath Gilbert, local writer and school teacher, has released her non-fiction book Empty Roads, Empty Promises: The Forgotten Blockade of Razorback Mountain.

After being asked to write a brief history on the Razorback Truck blockade, Kath was intrigued and dove deeper interviewing truckies who had been there and still had passion and anger in their voices. She then realised she needed to write a book!

BLURB:
Empty Roads, Empty Promises takes us back to the 1970s. It was a decade of 'mutton chop' sideburns, Skyhooks songs, protests and trucks rolling along the Hume Highway over Razorback Mountain. Truckies were hauling food, livestock, fuel and everything else that kept Australia running. Even during the economically unsustainable times, owner-drivers kept rolling. That was until 5pm on April 2nd, 1979 when five truck drivers barricaded the road, forcing all others to stop in what was labelled an act of civil insurrection.

Like the Eureka Stockade of 1854 and the Shearers' Strike of 1891, it was not a rebellion of privileges - rather a stand for fairness. It was a demand for the removal of the unfair, biased rules and regulations which discriminately forced honest truck drivers to pay a road user tax. It was a battle to stop the unjust incarceration of hard-working truckies.

This revealing book takes us behind closed doors into the private meetings. Anecdotes and memories of hardship, deception, larrikinism and camaraderie tell a quintessential Australian tale - the underdog taking on government and corporations. Members of the Razorback Committee, truck drivers, wives and media personalities share their recollections from across the ten tumultuous days. They give their thoughts on the still debated question, 'Did they win?'.

Empty Roads, Empty Promises is available now in store and online. Keep an eye out for Kath's release party being held in July 😊

28/05/2026

📚 Junior New Releases 📚

A bunch of great books for our younger readers have been released this week:

📚 K-Pop Spirit Academy by Joheun Lee
Full of friendship, monster-fighting and being true to yourself. Ages 8+

📚 The Journey Home by Kiah Thomas
The final exciting chapter in the Callers saga delivers higher stakes and danger, as well as a powerful message of hope. Ages 8+

📚 Runaway Horse by J.P. Rose
Third in the friendship-led horse-riding series set at an exclusive equestrian boarding school. Ages 9+

📚 Cleopatra by Jackie French
Renowned author and historian Jackie French takes us back in time to Greece and Rome and explores young heroes in ancient myths and legends whose stories will now be told. Ages 9+

📚 Hill End Gold by Sue Whiting
The third book in the Our History series, set in the famous gold rush town of Hill End. Ages 9+

📚 The Game of Oaths by S.C. Bandreddi
Power, revenge and sisterhood combine in this heart-pounding YA fantasy debut, set in a magical circus in Belle Époque Paris. Ages 14+

📚 Stranger Things: Season Three
Junior novelisation of the third season of Stranger Things. Ages 10+

📚 The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue by Zoulfa Katouh
The heart-wrenching new story of friendship, loss and identity from the author of international bestseller As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow. Ages 14+

📚 New Ebb & Flo by Laura & Philip Bunting
Entertaining large text stories for beginners. Ages 5+

📚 The House That Walked Away by Simon Howe
A magical story about belonging and family, for readers young and old.

📚 Hand to Hand Liz Anelli
Inspired by the 2020 bushfires, Hand to Hand shares a powerful and positive message of animal rescue and rehabilitation

📚 Wind-Up Tractor
Wind up the tractor and watch it rumble around the chunky pages of this brilliant, interactive book.

All available in store and online now 😊

27/05/2026

📚 New Releases 📚

We have some big names releasing books this week, including the highly anticipated new novel from Matt Haig.

The Midnight Train is set in same world as the bestselling Midnight Library and is even better, in my opinion. I felt like I was a better person when I finished reading compared to when I started. It will really hit home and have you questioning how you go about living your life. Highly recommend!

New releases include:
📚 Before I Knew I Loved You by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
📚 The Midnight Train by Matt Haig
📚 Where Truth Ends by Mark Smith
📚 The Secret Garden Club by Wendy Lynn Newton
📚 The Divorce by Freida McFadden
📚 Later, Only Love Remains by Leah Swann
📚 The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson
📚 Enough by Dan French
📚 At Dawn They Landed by James Hurst
📚 The Cats of Australia by Jodie Stewart

All available in store and online now 😊

26/05/2026

📚 School Author Visit 📚

Yesterday we welcomed Jess Racklyeft and George Ivanoff to Meeniyan Primary School to share their love of reading, writing and drawing with the students.

Last year Nice Stack of Books was lucky enough to be one of 41 stores to receive a grant from Penguin Australia Publishing to go towards inspiring the junior readers in our community.

When asked if they would be interested in donating their time to travel from Melbourne to chat with Meeniyan PS students, they jumped at the chance!

Jess Racklyeft had the Prep, 1 & 2s captivated from beginning to end. They were lucky enough to hold her CBCA award medal as she shared her illustrating secrets. The children were so impressed with their drawings of Australian nocturnal animals! The young man next to me was afraid to start drawing, then was bubbling over with pride as he showed me his sketches. 🥰

George Ivanoff had the grades 3-6s completely enthralled as he shared his writing process and how he comes up with his story ideas. The whiteboard image of his planning for the You Choose books blew their minds! The students loved picking the path as George read from You Choose...Prehistoric Peril, throw in some gruesome stories and they were very happy kids.

Thanks to the Penguin Aus grant, every single child was given a selection of books by Australian authors, including Jess and George to take home and enjoy.

I cannot thank Jess and George enough for donating their time and energy and giving these kids such an enjoyable time and hopefully sparking their love of reading and writing.

You can always find books by and .george at Nice Stack of Books 😊🧡

22/05/2026

📚 Blind Date With A Book 📚

Added to our shelves to purchase in store.

Take your pick and cross your fingers!

20/05/2026

📚 New Release Stack 📚

A closer look at some newbies on the shelf this week. I'm excited to begin Good Joy, Bad Joy by Mikki Brammer - I loved The Collected Regrets of Clover and have been waiting for her second novel to arrive!

📚 The Girl and the Ghost: Grand Opening by Jacqueline Harvey
The third book in the series has a hotel opening, a budding romance, a missing locket and . . . a ghost. Ages 9+

📚 Fever Dream by Elsie Silver
A small-town, forbidden, rivals-to-lovers romance, the first book in the brand-new Western romance series Emerald Lake.

📚 The Ballad of Falling Dragons by Sarah A Parker
The powerful second instalment in the Moonfall series — featuring an immersive, vibrant world with mysterious creatures, a unique magic system, and a love that blazes through the ages.

📚 Good Joy, Bad Joy by Mikki Brammer
For fans of Richard Osman, Rachel Joyce and Fredrik Backman, comes a whimsical, heartfelt novel about friendship over the decades, self-discovery, and what it means to have a life well-lived.

📚 Ironwood by Michael Connelly
The second book in the Catalina series. Sworn to protect a scenic island that's meant to be far from mainland evils, Detective Sergeant Stilwell feels danger closing in.

All available in store and online now 😊

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