I’ve been a little lax on my favourite bookshop posts, what with being overseas and moving house and attending to novelly things and that whole day job business. I do have many, many photos of several of the fabulous, multi-storey bookshops in Japan, which shall one day surface on this blog.
Due to being a miserly [...]

Kaaron Warren writes fabulously disturbing and, well, generally fabulous short stories, some of which have been collected in the recent The Grinding House through CSFG publishing. As Kaaron has recently moved to Suva, Fiji, I was curious as to how her book buying habits had changed, and whether she had managed to find a particular [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m trying to curtail my rather excessive book expenditure by ensuring that the only books I purchase are second-hand. This is not only a rather cheaper way of working, but I’m also more likely to pick up books by authors unfamiliar to me as there’s less financial risk involved. [...]

I had a chat with Marshall Payne recently about his favourite bookshop, and what he had to say made me smile.  I think a lot of booklovers would love to have a local bookshop where the staff know everything that’s on the shelves–and even better, have read the books and can offer a considered opinion [...]

I’m not entirely sure that Margo Lanagan needs an introduction, but for the uninitiated, she’s a writer of the strange, wonderful, and macabre, and has won nearly every award known to humankind, and quite possibly a few yet to have been discovered.  Her new novel, Tender Morsels, through Allen & Unwin, will be out in [...]

Having visited quite a few second-hand bookshops of late, as well as a whole bunch of interstate ones due to work travel, I began to wonder what exactly it is about a given bookshop that makes it feel right (or so very wrong) to me.  I seem to spend quite a bit of time in [...]