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Christmas Catalogue

The New International Bookshop Christmas catalogue: helping Melbourne’s Left prepare for whatever the silly season has in store.

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Underground Talks

Wednesdays at 6:30pm

Underground talk is a relaxed environment where local writers and activists can mingle and discuss their work with the Left community. Join us for a browse in the shop, a beer, wine or coffee by donation and some stimulating conversation at our premises in Trades Hall basement.

50c Fiction Sale

Hundreds and hundreds of books, all at just 50c!

Crime - Thrillers - Scri-fi/ Fantasy - Light Reads - Literature - Australian Classics

The corridor outside the shop is now a permanent 50c sale, and the shelves are continually replenished with new stock!

Upcoming Events

Tom O'Lincoln: Australian Communism's Controversial Legacy

Underground Talk: 6 for 6:30pm Wednesday 11 November
New International Bookshop Trades Hall, cnr Victoria & Lygon Sts, Carlton
Entry: $5/ $2 concession

Tom O'Lincoln is the author of several books of Left history, founder of the International Socialist current in Australia, and a member of Socialist Alternative. At this Underground Talk he will be speaking on his republished classic Into the Mainstream: The decline of Australian communism in conversation with independent socialist Rob Zocchi.

Catherine Deveny @ The NIBS Christmas Party

Underground Talk: 5pm -8:30pm Friday 4 December
New International Bookshop Trades Hall

COME CELEBRATE WITH US our first full year in the surprisingly salubrious Trades Hall basement... This year's Christmas Party features an endless array of books to buy, drinks to down and, um, comrades to clap on the back - not to mention everyone's favourite acid-tongued columnist, Catherine Deveny!
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Jeremy Salt: The Unmaking of the Middle East. A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands'

Underground Talk: 6 for 6:30pm Wednesday 9 December
New International Bookshop Trades Hall

Jeremy Salt, the author of The Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands (University of California Press: Berkeley, 2008), is presently on leave from Bilkent University, Ankara, where he teaches in the Department of Political Science...
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