Recent Acquisitions

We've got some more gems!
We’re always getting new stuff in - here’s what’s come in recently:
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