Sixty years a bookseller

Level 1, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne

When a teenaged girl started a retail business with her parents in Essendon in 1965, she could not have imagined […]

Outrageous Fortunes

Melbourne Athenaeum Library Level 1, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne

Lucy Sussex, author of Blockbuster about Fergus Hume, the biggest selling crime fiction writer of the 19th century, has now […]

What Does Democracy Feel Like?

Brunswick Library 233 Sydney Road Cnr Dawson St - enter via Dawson St, BRUNSWICK, Victoria

In State Library Victoria there sits a formidable collection of parliamentary speeches and ephemera from the English Civil Wars, Revolution […]

From Convict Printers to Book Arcades

Melbourne Athenaeum Library Level 1, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne

The recently published From Convict Printers to Book Arcades completes the three volume History of the Book in Australia, a […]

Meet Me at the Book Fair

Wilson Hall, University of Melbourne (via Monash Road) Wilson Hall, University of Melbourne (via Monash Road)

For first time visitors, an antiquarian book fair might seem to be a strange and unfamiliar experience. We invite you […]