We have four very well-read and experienced booksellers who all read voraciously and have extensive knowledge of all kinds of reading.
Annie's Books on Peregian
Annie’s Books on Peregian is to be found in the heart of magical Peregian Beach Village, tucked into the sand dunes just a few kilometres south of iconic Noosa Heads.
Fitting snugly in amongst unique, owner operated retail businesses, the bookshop is in an ideal location for locals and visitors alike.
It may be a small shop, but it is packed with treasures, and we pride ourselves in keeping up with the latest trends in literature and new releases, right across all genres.
If you can’t find what you are looking for on our shelves, we will be very happy to order books – it is one of our specialities.
``Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life`` - Mark Twain
Meet the Team
Annie
I was blessed to grow up in the culturally rich and beautiful eastern suburbs of Sydney, the daughter of two bibliophiles. Read More
Rachel
I have been a keen reader and lover of books all my life, and get great satisfaction from recommending the books I’ve enjoyed. Read More
Palmira
Palmira was known as a ‘bookworm’ throughout her school years so no surprise she completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Literature! Read More
Beck
A creative soul with a passion for the written word, Beck has been a bookworm since she was a child. Read More
Top 5 New Releases This Month
Juice by Tim Winton
Problem is, they’re not alone.
So begins a searing, propulsive journey through a life whose central challenge is not simply a matter of survival, but of how to maintain human decency as everyone around you falls ever further into barbarism.
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women – his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
The Deal by Alex Miller
When forced to take a part-time teaching job Andy meets Lang Tzu, a charismatic and intriguing man. Andy is drawn deeper into a dangerous relationship when Lang asks him to prove his friendship by brokering a risky deal for a much-desired piece of art. Andy finally consents despite Jo’s opposition. In the process, Andy is in fact negotiating his own deal with himself as an artist and is compelled to face up to the conflict between his conception of art as a creative gift and the realities of the art market.
Powerful and perceptive, Miller’s profound and intimate depiction of Jo and her partnership with Andy, and his poignant portrait of Lang’s troubled genius, form the beating heart of this beautiful novel.
Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks
Kaitlyn knows exactly where she belongs. In Asheboro, she’s built a life for herself and her kids that she’s proud of, especially after the turmoil of divorce. But when she meets lone wolf Tanner, she can’t help but feel something has been missing until now.
Jasper will never belong again. He had everything – and he lost it all. Now with only his old dog Arlo for company, he lives quietly, haunted by the tragic accident that took place decades before.
Three strangers’ worlds are about to collide, changing the trajectory of all their lives. Because some paths cross, some merge, and others guide you home…
From the much-loved bestselling author of The Notebook comes a brand-new emotional and powerful novel about the journeys we take and those who touch our hearts along the way.
We Are The Stars by Gina Chick
From day one of her wildly unconventional childhood, Gina Chick blazed her own trail, which led her to dance through the hidden world of ’90s Sydney nightlife into the arms of a conman. She fled to the wilderness to find healing, began a wondrous love affair with the deepest lessons life – and death – can offer, and found that all the answers are written in the wisdom of the body and the whirling silence of stars.
If you’re ready to get lost in jungles, wander into wolf-dens, sing with storms, rescue orphaned animals, dive to the depths, dance ’til your knees wobble, fall in love, find yourself by losing it all, and most of all be real; this book is for you.
We Are the Stars is a magic carpet ride through the exquisite mystery of the human heart. You’ve never read anything like it.
Community
Community is important to all of us. We treasure our place in this jewel of the Sunshine Coast.
We have strong ties to local schools, libraries and clubs, and you will see that we are regularly involved in local events, as well as hosting a multitude of our own book events from the smallest local authors to those of international renown.
``Literature is my Utopia.`` - Helen Keller
Upcoming Events
AUTHOR BOOK SIGNING
“The Last Hotel”
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16th – 10:00AM – 12:00pm
ON THE FOOTPATH AT ANNIE’S BOOKS
THIS IS A FREE EVENT
It’s March 2020, and as flights are cancelled and hotels close in virus-stricken Europe, seven strangers meet by chance. Out of necessity they form a family in lockdown in the last hotel open on the French Riviera.
Young Kaz and Lou have lost their dream jobs in St. Tropez, and Will, a chef from Torquay, is similarly and suddenly unemployed. Jenny came for a holiday with her son, Sasha, but his ballet contract is suspended and older Australians Maggie and Tim flee Italy. During their stay at the Last Hotel, the new guests meet interesting neighbours, Juliette and Henri, and Deborah, a single mother whose plan for a restful year in Provence is also disrupted. This improbable gathering of old and young discovers that magic happens when you least expect it.
Wars and pestilences can come with no warning out of a cloudless sky, but so too can love take you by surprise. If you believe in magic and serendipity, you will find it here in The Last Hotel.
The novel was inspired by the author’s real- life experience in Italy during March 2020.
Joni Scott is an Australian writer of contemporary and historical fiction. She is also a history blogger on her website. Whispers through Time is her debut novel. In early 2020, she travelled to Italy for treatment for CRPS but ended up in lockdown. This experience inspired her second novel, The Last Hotel which she wrote with her left hand. Though the physical act of writing is still a struggle, Joni is determined to continue. Time, Heal my Heart is her third novel, soon to be released and can be read as a free-standing novel or sequel. Meanwhile her fourth novel, Colour comes to Tangles, a biracial romance, is now available on Amazon as a paperback and e book.
AUTHOR BOOK SIGNING
“New Year’s Eve”
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 30th – 10:00AM – 12:00pm
ON THE FOOTPATH AT ANNIE’S BOOKS
THIS IS A FREE EVENT
Being born on the last day of the year has never done Eve Anderson any favours, but this year her birthday set off a series of rolling explosions rather than fireworks.
An affair with a married man just crashed and burned, her career is in tatters, and now there’s a phone call from her mother that she can’t ignore.
Eve is forced to slink back to the outback town she ditched at 18 and face the family she’s actively ignored since, the teenage love she never forgot, and the pub (or is that “family home”?-you say potato, I say “po-taa-to”!) that holds too many of her secrets.
Packed with heart, humour, and romance, get ready to fall in love with New Year’s Eve.
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“A house without books is like a room without windows” - Horace Mann
Get in Touch with Annie the Book Detective!
Was there a book you loved as a child and want to pass on to your children?
Is there something you always meant to read, but cannot find it on the shelves any more?
Whether the book you are looking for is common or rare, in or out of print, new or old, I will don my hunting cap and seek it out!
Just give me whatever details you have, and we’ll start looking….
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