Hello, I’m Sophie…Dusk Books grew from a love of reading that quietly spilled over.

I’ve always read, but somewhere along the way I realised I loved the searching just as much as the stories themselves…hunting down titles, stacking them beside each other, building small worlds out of paper and ink.

I’m drawn to books with characters that stay with you. Literary fiction is where I find most of my five-star reads, though I’ll wander into almost any genre if the writing has that certain pull, the kind that makes you slow down and reread a sentence just because it’s beautiful.

Dusk is a curated collection of second-hand books. I love the quiet history they carry…the soft creases, the pencilled notes, the feeling that a story has already been lived with before it reaches you. There’s something grounding about passing a book from one set of hands to another.

I live on Dharawal Country with my husband and three very noisy, very opinionated book-worm children, who regularly weigh in on what deserves a place on these shelves.

I don’t follow strict TBRs. I read by mood, by instinct, by season. Reading is how I rest. How I think. How I return to myself.

I hope you find something to fall under the spell of here…

Soph x