1haydninvienna
As exhaustively discussed in my threads in the Green Dragon, I've recently returned to Brisbane, the city of my birth. Rather regrettably, Brisbane is not especially well provided with bookshops, but it has a couple of quirky ones, and I might drop some notes in this thread as and when I get round to visiting them. If nothing else, it will help to keep the group alive.
First, the Salisbury Second-hand Bookshop. This is in an industrial area near where I went to high school. It's definitely not your high-class antiquarian place: it’s a tin shed (I didn't take any pictures, but see the photos on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Salisbury+second+hand+bookshop/@-27.543402,153... ). The sort of place I could happily browse in for hours. All the books are A$4. It’s apparently staffed by volunteers, which suggests that there is a charity involved, but I haven’t seen anything to say what charity, if so. Anyway, I bought A Wunch of Bankers (about the Hayne Royal Commission into Banking) and The Ball and the Cross, by G K Chesterton, which I’ve never encountered before.
Next up will possibly be the bookshop of Cystic Fibrosis Queensland. This one will be much harder to get to though, involving a longish and complex drive across Brisbane (which is, incidentally, a huge urban area).
First, the Salisbury Second-hand Bookshop. This is in an industrial area near where I went to high school. It's definitely not your high-class antiquarian place: it’s a tin shed (I didn't take any pictures, but see the photos on Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Salisbury+second+hand+bookshop/@-27.543402,153... ). The sort of place I could happily browse in for hours. All the books are A$4. It’s apparently staffed by volunteers, which suggests that there is a charity involved, but I haven’t seen anything to say what charity, if so. Anyway, I bought A Wunch of Bankers (about the Hayne Royal Commission into Banking) and The Ball and the Cross, by G K Chesterton, which I’ve never encountered before.
Next up will possibly be the bookshop of Cystic Fibrosis Queensland. This one will be much harder to get to though, involving a longish and complex drive across Brisbane (which is, incidentally, a huge urban area).
2haydninvienna
Today I visited The Really Good Bookshop at Hillcrest. Pleased to give this one the thumbs up. It's your classic second hand place absolutely packed to the ceiling, with far too little room between the shelves, and it's a lot of fun looking. There seems to be a decent range of stock, including some new books as well as the used ones. Lots of SFF. My only quibble is that the selection of poetry isn't large, but this is after all the far south of Brisbane.
3haydninvienna
Two more, both good ones: Archives Fine Books in the CBD, and The Mount Gravatt Bookstore at Mount Gravatt East. Both of them proper second-hand bookshops: piled shelves, narrow aisles, heaps of books everywhere. Archives Fine Books is a good deal further up market, but prices in both are reasonable for what you can get there.
