Bookstores in Australia

Sydney — Gleebooks at
http://www.gleebooks.com.au is noted for its knowledgable staff and its huge range of poetry, fiction and cultural studies titles, both new and pre-loved, and has for over twenty years hosted poetry and prose readings and book launching parties on the premises. Gleebooks publishes a regular newsletter, the Gleebooks Gleaner. You can search, order and buy through the Internet site. Tel.(+612) 9660 2578 or (+612) 9660 2333, fax (+612) 9660 3597, e-mail books@gleebooks.com.au

Sydney — The Co-op Bookshop at
http://www.coop-bookshop.com.au is the largest academic book retailer in Australia, with more than forty-five branches on and off campus nationally. As a true co-operative, their profits are given back to their more than 800,000 members in the form of discounts to Co-op members. (But anyone can shop there.) They offer a complete range of print and non print items including popular fiction and non-fiction, literature, academic texts, specialist reference books, computing, business, medicine, engineering, sciences and law as well as a variety of software, CD-ROMs and other multimedia products.

Photo of Nicholas Pounder
© John Tranter, 1986, 2001

Sydney — Mr Nicholas Pounder is known to book collectors the world over for his range of rare and pre-loved volumes. He has moved into the ethereal realm of cyberspace, and is to be found on the Internet at
http://www.nicholaspounder.com/

or by e-mail
npounder@bigpond.net.au

Melbourne — Readings at
http://www.readings.com.au/ makes Melbourne seem less gloomy. Specialises in literature and cultural titles. Also a large music section. Tel. (+613) 9347 6085, fax (+613) 9347 1641

Melbourne: Proprietor Kris Hemensley (photo, left) invites you to join the many other writers and readers for whom Collected Works has become the major poetry and ideas bookshop in Australia. Collected Works has been around since 1984, and has moved twice (see below). They specialise in: poetry and prose — Australian, British, Irish, North American, European, Asia/Pacific, Chinese, Japanese, South American, Asian, African, Middle Eastern and Caribbean. They are proud of their wide range of Australian small press titles, literary magazines and literature in translation.
     Collected Works, although primarily a bookshop of new stock, sometimes has an out-of-print and/or secondhand copy of that rare title. And while you're here, why not read a poem by Kris Hemensley in Jacket # 3?
      If you can't visit in person, they service mail order enquiries from interstate and around the world — Visa, Mastercard and Bankcard welcome — and you can send an email to Kris Hemensley at kris@collectedworks.com.au. There’s a website and a discussion forum: http://www.collectedworks.com.au/

 New address from 2003:
Collected Works
Level 1, Nicholas Building
37 Swanston Street
Melbourne 3000, Australia
Telephone (613+) 9654 8873

Art Books Only —
Sharon Tredinnick, the proprietor of Published Art, says:

I opened Published Art in November 1999 as a very specialised bookshop servicing the art, architecture and design communities.The shop was established to work on the basis of stocking the most interesting publications available internationally, getting them into the shop quickly, and at the best possible prices.
      Published Art is different from all other bookshops in both form and content.The differences are that I only stock current titles selected from the best international publishers, and they are all displayed as they are meant to be with their covers visible.
      Often the shop will have books and magazines ahead of other stores, and often at better prices, because I airfreight directly most of my European / American / Japanese publications. The stock changes frequently with new books arriving daily.If a book is not in stock this usually means that I have had it and sold out, but I can easily order it again for you.

http://publishedart.com.au/

Shop 2, 23–33 Mary Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010, Australia
ph +61 2 9280 2839, fax +61 2 9280 2841, email mail@publishedart.com.au
open Mon–Fri 10am–6pm, Sat 10am–5pm

The independent University of New South Wales Bookshop was named Australia's Tertiary Bookseller of the Year 1998 for their range of stock, and for building good relations with suppliers and customers. Not bad, after just one year of trading. The shop offers discounts to all customers (no membership required) and carries an excellent range of books in all areas, and of course, they special order and can indent from anywhere in the world. On campus at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. To search stock or place an order see their live web site http://www.bookshop.unsw.edu.au or phone (612+) 9385 6622 or fax (612+) 9385 6633 or e-mail info@bookshop.unsw.edu.au

The Australian Online Bookshop at
http://www.bookworm.com.au sells books on all subjects but specializes in computer books, science fiction, fantasy, electronic books, and Australian books of all types.

The Writers’s Bookcase, at http://www.writersbookcase.com.au/
is an Australian mail order/Internet bookshop that aims to make it easier for people who write, edit or enjoy words to keep their library up to date with the latest and best books available. It stocks about 500 titles and also welcomes special orders.

Writers Bookcase
PO Box 162
KIPPAX ACT 2615

Phone (612+) 6259 2835 — Fax (612+) 6259 1983
Email: writersbookcase@ozemail.com.au