Petrarch’s Bookshop turned into a sea of red, white and black thanks to the appearance of ex-St Kilda captain Nick Riewoldt.
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The 336-game superstar was in town to sign copies of his new autobiography The Things that Make Us: Life, Loss and Football.
Hundreds of people attended the book signing to catch a glimpse of the legendary centre half-forward, with the line snaking out and around the bookshop.
One man who waited in line came for the love of his partner.
“I’ve come to get a book for my partner, because she loves Nick and she can’t make it today,” he said.
Another football fan who went only by the name of Salty said he thought Riewoldt was “terrific”.
“I’m here to buy a book – I buy all the footy books,” he said.
“I’ve met [Riewoldt] a couple of times in Melbourne, he’s a really good fella.”
Riewoldt’s book sheds light on some of the biggest challenges he faced in his personal and sporting life.
Chief among these is the loss of his sister Maddie, who died in 2015 at the age of 26 of Aplastic Anaemia.