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Bookshop café

The Forbidden Chapter

453 Victoria Street

A bookstore and cafe stocking romance, fantasy, dark romance, crime, mystery, thriller, horror and LGBTQ+ books, with book clubs, events and a members’ room called The Forbidden Vault.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 9am–4pm · Thursday 9am–9pm · Saturday and Sunday 10am–4pm

Checked 1 October 2026 against theforbiddenchapter.au.

The streets around The Forbidden Chapter, 453 Victoria Street, with its building marked.
Plan reference F5. Plan drawn from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors) and Microsoft’s building footprints, both ODbL, read 1 October 2026.