We’re always getting new stuff in - here’s what’s come in recently:

1ST EDITION FICTION: Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes (a couple signed copies), Michael Crichton plus A.E. Van Vogt, Samuel Delany & 1st UK editions of Gods of Mars & Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs and the highly-collectible Gateway by Frederick Pohl

CLASSICS: Plenty more of those authors adored for decades (some centuries) - Dickens, Tolstoy, Bronte(s), Twain… and the list goes on.

MISC: Navigation Journals (aviation & maritime) - both Australian and UK - from the collection of J.E.Clegg, influential (indeed, evolutionary) and integral member of the Defence Department’s research team who contributed to multiple journal articles. Consecutive issues from 1959-1982: if it’s your area, this is once-in-a-lifetime stuff.

TEEN: Oda Hirsch & Phillip Pullman have hit the shelves in a big way

TRAVEL: From Morocco to Marakesh, Tuscany to Tangiers and Borneo to Beirut, with hundreds of destinations, stories and histories in between. Some truly fantastic titles to suit future travellers or remind you of past experiences.

MODERN FICTION: Whole stack of the titles from the authors; think lovely bones, blind assassin, disgrace, memory-keeper’s daughter, mccall smith, de bernieres, eucalyptus, curious incident of the dog, ghost road, and so many more - all in mint condition so will not last!

CLASSICS: From a modern perspective - just acquired one of the best collections of Nicholas Monsarrat in the country; Fifteen first editions in excellent condition with the pick of the bunch being ‘The Tribe That Lost Its Head’ from 1956 (also have sequel ‘Richer Than All His Tribe’) and the 2 vol set of ‘The Master Mariner’.

MILITARY: Brand new books: Country Victoria’s Own (Leckie); To Kokoda & Beyond (Austin); Proudly We Served (Egan); History of 2/18 Battalion (Silver & Elliott); Forever Forward (Laffin); Thunder of the Hooves (Hollis); Ike’s Marines (Brigg); The Vital Factor (Handel) 9 Field Company (Gietzelt); The Desert Scorpions (Kane-Maguire); Blue Lightning (Eather)

COOKING: Jamie Oliver, Marie Claire, Margaret Fulton + heaps more…

LOCAL HISTORY: The Waters of South Australia. A Series of Charts, Sailing Notes and Coastal Photographs; Pastoral Pioneers of South Australia… to name two of the more significant additions, but there’s more!

ART: Highlight - 3 vol set Vasari (lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors & architects) but sumptuous servings of Tom Roberts, Charles Blackman, Kenneth Jack, Hans Heysen, Ure Smith, various prints (including Toulouse-Lautrec & Michelangelo), Delacroix, Renoir, Van Gogh, Constable, Norman Lindsay, Monet, Manet, Degas, Rembrandt, etc, etc

MORE FICTION!: Jodi Picoult, Matthew Reilly, Monica McInerney + stacks of crime.

MYSTICISM: About 20 books relating to tarot, magic, crystals etc for you to peruse.

FICTION: Heaps of Binchy, Trollope et al plus some hardcover McCall Smith, Archer, a great assortment of Oz fiction (White, Grenville, Kenneally, Courtenay etc) and others too numerous to mention.

OCCULT: Numerous Tarot, astrology, numerology etc.

AUSTRALIANA: Very good complete (6 vol) set of Clark’s History of Australia; a number of 1st ed Frank Clune

LOCAL HISTORY: Facsimile edition of The Diary & Letters of Mary Thomas (1836-1886); 2 vol set of Tolmer’s Reminiscences

LOCAL HISTORY: Two immaculate sets of the Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885. (Only one left now!)

AVIATION: Set of Australian War Memorial Air War books (Odgers, Herington, Gillison)

SCIENCE FICTION: Just purchased a significant number of classic paperbacks from an avid SF collector - Moorcock, Asimov, ‘Doc’ Smith, Blish, etc + some 1960s Analog mags

CLASSICS: All the ones you know - Dickens, Chaucer, Lawrence, Golding, Graves, Hesse, Kerouak, Greene, James, Fitzgerald, Mansfield, Austen, etc - plus some who may surprise!

CRIME: All the big names - over 100 titles just came in (some listed on our home page)

KIDDIES: Oodles!! Especially classics (think Ms Blyton, Anne of Green Gables and more Enid Blyton) and Disney faves. There’s even - and this shows my age - a vintage Mr Squiggle book. Love it! SPORT: Several items including Mountain Biking and Windsurfing

LOCAL HISTORY: A few more to enhance our collection

HORROR: Koontz & Hutson (hard & soft covers)

SF: Avid reader’s collection. Stacks of the best including Asimov, Banks, Baxter, Bear, Donaldson, Vance and Vinge

BUSINESS: A substantial collection bought from a professional in the field. Online marketing and design plus traditional business theory and advice