This new age store tucked away on George street in Parramatta has a good selection of jewellery,…read morebooks and incense. They also have psychic readings in store and some other interesting items that you'll find as you work your way around to the back end of the store, which opens up into another section of more books and crystals. My favourite items in store was definitely the pendulums on display, in particular the malachite ones and the large selection of incense in the middle of the store in between the two rooms.

I just found out what QBD stands for. Spoiled all my fun. Not 'Quorum Bequeathed Donations' or…read more'Quartet Boring Dullards'. Sigh. So I won't tell you. Enjoy the acronym. One of a smallish chain, QBD up high in the swaying reaches of Westfield stocks an odd mix of remaindered books at bargain prices and regular stock at cheaper than normal RRP. They don't have the brand new releases I've noticed, but for the prices, that's not surprising. Staff are always kind and never laugh at my occasional anthropological-experiment reading choices. That's my story, stickin' to it. You can't read 19th century cross-dressing French socialist Baronnesses all the time.

Military and Automotive books. Add Mills & Boon and you'd have the unholy trifecta of the Only…read moreBooks I Am Not Interested In. Actually, add Mills & Boon and I think the whole place'd implode into some black hole type gender-opposition dark matter and the world would probably end. Consider this not so much a review then, as a notification. I was scared to go in, as I half suspect that anyone without a Y chromosome will set off some screeching alarm rigged to the door. Although, now I think of it, in my years as a lowly-paid bookseller in a previous life (seems like it) I sent enough business their way to deserve a kickback. The amount of men incensed that we didn't have a 1973 Datsun make-whatever-model-&*47e manual just lying around never failed to surprise me. So here, if military books, cars books and manuals, dvds and model kits are your thing, more power to you. I guess.

I buy a lot of books and I get them most of the time based on the price v the quality read. I read…read moresome e-books and have owned a kindle at some point. However the Australian e-book storefront is an embarrassment to global business. It is akin to a Stalinist Gulag of empty shelves and extremely poor range. Regardless reading an e-book has some positive points but reading a paperback has more. Yet, I think 2015 will be a conversion year because I cannot keep buying books of meat. My house is loaded with books and in October I culled what I thought was dead literature, still I have books doubled up on the shelves. To get to the review at hand Dymocks Book Shop Macquarie Mall is small (not what one would call intimate, more crammed), the aisles are a real pain in the arse because the browse space between the main fiction and literature shelf (and yes there's a difference), is far to narrow to engage in some serious browsing without leaning, standing or squeezing past another book buyer. True browsing requires a methodical scan of the entire book area (like searching for a lost boat at sea) because you can easily miss juicy books you've never heard of or have been searching for. Macquarie Dymocks truly needs to widen this browsing aisle. Their book collection covers first and foremost the major hits of the day/month/year. The Man Booker Prize is by far the most important date on the sell by intimidation or 'move units' by the bucket loads. All book shops of course need these addictive days to get through the non-prescribed book buying days (father's day, Mother's Day and amongst many others Xmas. The good outcome of a limited library is your available choice, if you are going to buy. Dymocks Macquarie has out the front its standard read now or die blocks of books and some sale items that never seem to draw me in. Titles like 'Authentic German Backpacking food and sandals: A Guide', or 'Real Space Holidays: The A-Z'. Book prices have fallen for some titles, particularly blockbusters and books mass produced. However, in Australia (and this is my opinion), books are very expensive, have always been expensive and from what I have experienced have not learned that to compete you have to reduce prices. Quite frankly I do not think the voices behind Australian authors and publishers should force me to buy local just because they are home grown. It's boring and at the village mentality.

Beautiful store. Love the recommendations the staff give you. Never got it wrong. In a new location…read morein Westfield near the entrance.