Do you love reading and talking about great books? Join Mary Martin’s Spring Book Club and come along for monthly book chats over wine and cheese with a small, welcoming group of bookworms.
Screens down, books up! After a long week, unwind with a chill, screen-free reading hour in the relaxing ambience of our Southbank bookshop.
Join us at Market Espresso in String Bean Alley (Just opposite our Queen Vic Market store) at 8.30am on Saturday November 29th for The Breakfast Book Club, a relaxed meet up where we chat about the latest crime novels over breakfast.
Welcome to our classics book club, where we eschew the latest bestsellers to celebrate books that have stood the test of time! Join your fellow bibliophiles as we read or reread classic works of literature together and discuss great books from throughout the ages. In November we will be reading The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Mrs Claus is coming to town! Join us Sunday November 30th on the veranda at our Queen Vic Market Bookshop for a magical Christmas story time.
Mrs Claus will be coming all the way from the North Pole to read Renee Price’s new picture book ‘Mrs Claus’ illustrated by Travis Price.
Ahoy, are you ready for a daring maritime Adventure? The time has come for the 2025 Melbourne Treasure Hunt. The island realm of Aquinta needs your help! Navigate the treasure map’s route, avoiding pirates and sea monsters, to find the clues and solve the puzzle. Collect a free treasure map from Mary Martin Bookshop in Southbank during December. This year's treasure hunt is based on The Wicked Ship, an exciting high seas adventure novel by Amelia Mellor.
Join children’s author Emma Bowd at our final preschool storytime for the year. At this special Christmas storytime Emma will be reading her fantastic new picture book, The Christmas Tree Catastrophe. We will also sings some festive songs together and do some christmas craft.
Join us for our final Mystery Night of the year! In this special Holiday edition of our popular event, we’ll be joined by two mystery authors for a great night of books, wine and festive cheer.
This year we are inaugurating a new tradition: The Epic Summer Read! With the long warm days ahead, we’re looking forward to having more time to read. And why not tackle an epic book! Join Cal from our Classics Bookclub and dive into Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame!
Welcome to our classics book club, where we eschew the latest bestsellers to celebrate books that have stood the test of time! Join your fellow bibliophiles as we read or reread classic works of literature together and discuss great books from throughout the ages. This October we’ll be reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll
Join us for a special pre-school storytime with children’s author and illustrator Sarah Zweck as she reads us her new picture book, Here Come the Cousins.
Join us for a captivating evening of words, wine and conversation with a mystery author, a mystery book and a glass of wine at a cosy mystery location.
Welcome to our classics book club, where we eschew the latest bestsellers to celebrate books that have stood the test of time! Join your fellow bibliophiles as we read or reread classic works of literature together and discuss great books from throughout the ages. This September we will be reading The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera.
Join us at Market Espresso in String Bean Alley (Just opposite our Queen Vic Market store) at 8.30am on Saturday September 27th for The Breakfast Book Club, a relaxed meet up where we chat about the latest crime novels over breakfast.
Join us for a captivating evening of words, wine and conversation with a mystery author, a mystery book and a glass of wine at a cosy mystery location.
Join the Movement for Positive Body Image! What if showing up could help someone, young or old, believe they don’t need to change to be worthy? This is what led Chi Chi Wang to write From Ugly to Beautiful Without Surgery, a personal book that helps people rebuild confidence without changing their face or body.
Join us at Market Espresso in String Bean Alley (Just opposite our Queen Vic Market store) at 8.30am on Saturday August 30th for The Breakfast Book Club, a relaxed meet up where we chat about the latest crime novels over breakfast.
Join us for a captivating evening of words, wine and conversation with a mystery author, a mystery book and a glass of wine at a cosy mystery location.
Join us at Mary Martin Bookshop Port Melbourne for a very special story time and book launch celebrating Max and Baby by Vanesa Josevski.
Welcome to our classics book club, where we eschew the latest bestsellers to celebrate books that have stood the test of time! Join your fellow bibliophiles as we read or reread classic works of literature together and discuss great books from throughout the ages. This July we will be reading Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
Join us at Market Espresso in String Bean Alley (Just opposite our Queen Vic Market store) at 8.30am on Saturday June 28 for The Breakfast Book Club, a relaxed meet up where we chat about the latest crime novels over breakfast.
Penguin Fantasy Fest is BACK and coming to Melbourne for the FIRST TIME!Coming to Melbourne Thursday, 24th July, get ready for a magical evening with some of our favourite Australian authors in the genre: Lynette Noni, Keshe Chow and Lyndall Clipstone.
Join Michelle Johnston, bestselling author of Tiny Uncertain Miracles, at Mary Martin Bookshop Southgate for the Melbourne launch of her new book, 'The Revisionists.'
Welcome to our classics book club, where we eschew the latest bestsellers to celebrate books that have stood the test of time! Join your fellow bibliophiles as we read or reread classic works of literature together and discuss great books from throughout the ages. This June we will be reading Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.
Join us at Market Espresso in String Bean Alley (Just opposite our Queen Vic Market store) at 8.30am on Saturday June 28 for The Breakfast Book Club, a relaxed meet up where we chat about the latest crime novels over breakfast.
Do you love reading and talking about great books? Join Mary Martin’s Winter Book Club and come along for monthly book chats over wine and cheese with a small, welcoming group of bookworms.
Are you free the night of Tuesday June 24th? Join us for a captivating evening with a mystery author, a mystery book and a glass of wine at a atmospheric mystery location.
Join us for a lunchtime keynote and book signing with award-winning leadership expert Dr Kirsten Ferguson AM, author of 'Blindspotting'.
You're invited to a fun, free, family-friendly event to celebrate the launch of Down the Plot Hole with Brisbane-based author Annaleise Byrd.
You're invited to a storytime launch to celebrate the publication of You Are Not a Pup! with Brisbane-based author Annaleise Byrd.
Welcome to our classics book club, where we eschew the latest bestsellers to celebrate books that have stood the test of time! Join your fellow bibliophiles as we read or reread classic works of literature together and discuss great books from throughout the ages. This May we will be reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Join us on the veranda of Mary Martin Bookshop Queen Vic Market to celebrate Comic Book Wonder Day and the launch of CHUNK VOLUME 1. This unique comic workshop gives older teens and young adults the opportunity to meet comic book artists and editors and explore comic book wonder for themselves.
Join us at Market Espresso in String Bean Alley (Just opposite our Queen Vic Market store) at 8.30am on Saturday May 24th for The Breakfast Book Club, a relaxed meet up where we chat about the latest crime novels over breakfast.
One of Britain’s bestselling historians offers a meticulously researched and insightful account of the famously televised 1980 SAS storming of the Iranian embassy in London – better known as Operation Nimrod.
Are you free the night of Tuesday May 20th? Join us for a captivating evening with a mystery author, a mystery book and a glass of wine at a atmospheric mystery location.
Welcome to our classics book club, where we eschew the latest bestsellers to celebrate books that have stood the test of time! Join your fellow bibliophiles as we read or reread classic works of literature together and discuss great books from throughout the ages. This April we will be reading As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
Join us at Market Espresso in String Bean Alley (Just opposite our Queen Vic Market store) at 8.30am on Saturday April 26th for The Breakfast Book Club, a relaxed meet up where we chat about the latest crime novels over breakfast.
Join book worms around the world this April and embark on an adventure through the heart of your city’s indie bookshops with the Global Book Crawl.
Are you free the night of Tuesday 15th April? Join us for a captivating evening with a mystery author, a mystery book and a glass of wine at a atmospheric mystery location.
