The Chestnut Tree

The Chestnut Tree ✨ indie bookshop
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Hey, teachers! You coming to Teachers’ Night? 🧑‍🏫✨ Take this time to relax, enjoy 15% off EVERYTHING, and grab a glass o...
11/05/2026

Hey, teachers! You coming to Teachers’ Night? 🧑‍🏫✨ Take this time to relax, enjoy 15% off EVERYTHING, and grab a glass of wine while you’re at it 😌

The highlight of the evening is a special presentation from Ben Taylor and Corredina Todaro of The English Lab, walking through the new texts on the 2026/2027 VCE prescribed text list and taking a deep dive into teaching Orbital by Samantha Harvey.

The English Lab has been partnering with schools across Victoria since 2020, supporting teachers and students through resources and professional development focused onVCE English.

Let us know you’re coming through Humanitix. This event is free! 🥰

Hiya! It’s time to unpack these boxes with your local booksellers again 🥰 Yesteryear, Mother’s Day specials, and the lon...
08/05/2026

Hiya! It’s time to unpack these boxes with your local booksellers again 🥰 Yesteryear, Mother’s Day specials, and the long awaited ‘The Things We Never Say’ just dropped 🫢 Let’s go through them together, shall we?

✨ Books mentioned
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Scarlet Morning by ND Stevenson
Westography by Warren Kirk
What Do You Call Your Mum? by Ashleigh Barton
When I Became Your Mummy by Susannah Shane
Bluey: Mum School

Guess who’s coming to the bookshop tomorrow.. 🫢 That’s right, it’s Lally Katz ❤️ Come by the shop at 2pm to have your co...
07/05/2026

Guess who’s coming to the bookshop tomorrow.. 🫢 That’s right, it’s Lally Katz ❤️ Come by the shop at 2pm to have your copy of My Cursed Va**na signed!

✨ About Lally Katz
Lally is a memoirist, playwright, and screenwriter who has written more than 50 plays produced on major stages in Australia and internationally. Her show Stories I Want to Tell You in Person toured Australia, Mexico and India and became an ABC program. She has developed projects with FX, Showtime and ABC Signature, wrote for Hulu’s The Great, and has written for Sunny Nights (Stan) and Shaun Tan’s animated series Tales From Outer Suburbia (ABC). Her memoir My Cursed Va**na is published by Allen & Unwin.

✨ About My Cursed Va**na
What happens when a soothsayer tells Lally Katz her va**na is cursed? Has the truth been spoken? In My Cursed Va**na Lally shares the many forms this hex takes as she searches for love, compulsively recording her life in real time as she goes. These are hilarious and heartbreaking tales of disastrous dates, hopeful s*x, straight-talking friendships, a surprise marriage, the adventure of motherhood and the strange gifts of illness, by a woman who embraces everything life has to offer.

04/05/2026

Your favourite cosy storytelling salon is back 🎤✨ Between the Lines is an 18+ live storytelling night for bold, honest, and unfiltered stories 💫 It’s not a reading. It’s not a slam or a performance, exactly. It’s a little more raw than that… an invitation to share something true in a room full of strangers who are there to listen ❤️ This month, it’s all about ‘Return’!

What to expect:
✨ A safe, welcoming space for all genders and identities
✨ A new theme each month
✨ 10-12 minute live storytelling spots (sign up in advance or on the night)
✨ Stories must be true and your own
✨ Telling your story without notes is preferred, but not essential!
✨ Wine, community, connection

Who it’s for:
Progressives, creatives, q***r folks, s*x-positive folks, allies, anyone with a story to tell and an open mind to listen.

SHARE A STORY! SIGN UP HERE:
https://btlstories.carrd.co

Get your tickets via the 🔗 in our bio!

Happy wild koala day! 🐨 💕 Today marks the 10th year of raising awareness about our lil friends and everything they’ve be...
03/05/2026

Happy wild koala day! 🐨 💕 Today marks the 10th year of raising awareness about our lil friends and everything they’ve been going through! Here’s how you can make a difference this year:

❤️ Make a donation to one of the Koala organisations on the Wild Koala Day website
🌳 Plant Koala Trees
📚 Buy a copy of One Koala, One Hundred Trees! A percentage of each copy sold will go to the Australian Koala Foundation’s Koala Kiss Project.

✨ About One Koala, One Hundred Trees by Leesa Allinson
A heartwarming tale about one family’s determination to create a safer environment for the koalas living on their property. The story is interspersed with facts about koalas and practical guides for readers wanting to build their own ‘koala corridor’ to help protect one of Australia’s most precious animals.

Hey there, book club friends! 📚✨ Here’s what we’re reading for the month of May 🫶🏼 May Book Club picks~✨General Book Clu...
29/04/2026

Hey there, book club friends! 📚✨ Here’s what we’re reading for the month of May 🫶🏼

May Book Club picks~

✨General Book Club (Sold Out)
Fireweather - Miranda Darling

✨Decolonise Your Shelf Book Club (June & July dates available)
Not Quite White in the Head - Melissa Lucashenko

✨ Good Natured Book Club
Deep Water - James Bradley

✨ Cook Book Club (July and Sep dates available)
Linger - Hetty Lui McKinnon

✨Parents & Bub’s Book Club
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett

Book your spot via the 🔗 in bio!

Win a $100 Chestnut Tree voucher through our new Literary Prize Tipping Competition! 🫢✨ Three runners up will also recei...
26/04/2026

Win a $100 Chestnut Tree voucher through our new Literary Prize Tipping Competition! 🫢✨ Three runners up will also receive a book of their choice from the prize lists 📚

✨ How it works
Purchase your entry on our site (all entry fees will be donated to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation) then submit your tips via Google form. The entry link is in our bio too so it’ll be easy peasy for ya 🙂‍↕️ We will send a form via email for each round of tipping so be sure to sign in to your account before checking out and select Click & Collect at checkout. You can also purchase your entry in store.

⟡ Get 10 bonus points for every listed book you buy from us!
⟡ Tips for each round must be submitted by 12pm the day before prize announcement.
⟡ Tipping competition winners will be announced on Wednesday November 11th, 2026.

Sign up before May 11th for your best shot at winning!

✨ The Prizes
⟡ Stella
⟡ International Booker
⟡ Women’s Prize for Fiction
⟡ Miles Franklin
⟡ Booker

24/04/2026

We’re running it back 2000s teen magazine style❣️ Which bookseller are you most like? 🫢 Find out what Eve, Cameron, Anna and Esin have on their list of faves. Let us know who you vibe with most 🫶🏼

If any of these titles interest you, we have a whole ‘Staff Favourites’ section on our site

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542 Barkly Street
West Footscray, VIC
3012

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Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 6pm
Sunday 9am - 4pm

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