An independent bookshop since 2014
Every book on our shelves has been read and argued over by someone on our staff. Find your next one here, or come sit by the window and browse.
Fresh off the delivery van this fortnight, and already shelved.
October book of the month
$26.00 Hardcover
Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices.
“A poignant novel about possibilities, regret, and the choices that make a life worth living.”
Nadia, front desk
Order before 4pm for same-day pickup at the shop. Shipping within the country takes 2–4 working days and is free over $40.
Notes, interviews and reading lists from behind the counter.
Walk into the back room and you’ll find a shelf labelled “for a rainy Sunday”. It started as a joke. It is now our best-selling corner, and here is what it taught us about how people actually choose books.
All under 200 pages, all impossible to put down.
Ahead of her reading here on 17 October.
A familiar book is a different book every time you return.
Readings, book clubs and small evenings upstairs. All free, seats are limited.
Reading and signing from The Cartographer’s Daughter, followed by a short Q&A.
This month: The Salt Orchard by Mira Okafor. Tea is on us.
An open mic for new and old poems. Sign up on the night, five minutes each.
Picture books read aloud for ages 3 to 7. Grown-ups welcome to listen in.
Margaret and Sam Holloway opened The Floret in 2014 in what used to be a flower shop on Linden Street. The name stayed, and so did the wide front window.
We are a small team of six readers. We don’t stock everything, on purpose. Every title is chosen by someone who has read it and would happily press it into your hands. If we don’t have what you’re looking for, we’ll order it in, usually within three days.
Most of all, we wanted a shop where nobody minds if you stay for an hour and leave with nothing. Most people leave with something anyway.
— Margaret, Sam & the team
Two minutes from Old Town station. Step-free entrance, and a reading chair that is rarely free.
