Rachel: 30; a funny, curvy, green-eyed girl; a writer, a historian, Boston transplant but forever a Buffalo girl at heart. Stress-baker, dystopian librarian, and full-time trouble magnet.

The Paperback Bookshop is an independent general bookshop that was established in the early 1960s at the top of Bourke street and was then one of the few Melbourne bookshops to sell a good selection of Australian and imported books, particularly paperback editions of books not commonly available in Melbourne. (by Diego DeNicola)