Embiggen Books was born in Noosaville on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia. Three years later the store grew legs and picked itself up and relocated to Melbourne. Whilst she has wide interests including Art, Design, DVD documentaries, Fiction, History, Economics, Plays, Poetry, and Philosophy, she is science mad. She has the biggest range of popular science titles instock in the observable universe, and her technical science books are growing on a daily basis. Not bad for a little independent bookshop. What she doesn’t have on her gorgeous shelves she can usually lay her hands on very quickly so hit us with your enquiries. As well as this she is keen on kit, specifically science kit so check out the gifts and equipment section.

Her parents Mr and Mrs Embiggen have had long interests in evidence based understanding, reason and life, the universe and everything. They have sieved out pseudoscience wherever they smell it so you won’t find new age malarkey in the stock list. We’ll often discuss these things in our blog, so keep an eye out for interesting tidbits. We also produce a regular newsletter to keep you up to date with instore events which we try to video and stick online for those of you unfortunate enough not live nearby. We encourage discussion of these there and would welcome your rational well stated views.  It should be said that in a former life Mr Embiggen was a graphic designer and so we have the best art and design section outside of a major city. I mean who would ordinarily expect to find Josef Muller-Brockman or Stefan Sagemeister in rural Australia? 

We’re hoping to making this site the best in the business over time, so we welcome your feedback. And if you ever have trouble finding a title let us know and we’ll try to track it down for you and order it if we can.  

Thanks for joining us and we hope you enjoy your visit!