A Blue Mountains institution…read more This independent bookshop is one of my favourite places to wander and catch up on new releases. Although the shop isn't large, they carry a well-selected stock covering all areas, and the staff are helpful and knowledgeable, happy to special order anything you're after. There's a big children's section out the back, and an unusually large History section where I've picked up many an odd tome. The fiction section tends more to the literature side, so no airport reads here. There's even a bunch of DVD's of the foreign-film, superior-culture variety. In scanning the shelves you can so easily find a treasure, then ask a bookseller about it and have a chat and get recommendations. Can't do that online. Sometimes old-fashioned is good.

Poor selection of books and a terrible place to browse, poor to horrid customer service and the…read moreplace smelt.... Asking the staff member a question was like you had committed a crime. He looked down at you and treated you with contempt... Customer service skills of ZERO..... I cant write a lot as I left as fast as I could and put this place down as one never ever to go back to. There are other book shops in Katoomba that know what customer service is. Did I say that the shop smelt....

Well, there isn't a real huge selection of books in this bookshop, but still, there are certainly…read moreenough to keep a bibliophile like me entertained. I guess it is probably because the store itself really isn't all that big. However, that certainly doesn't mean that there aren't any decent books here because I was quickly able to find one, and a rather old looking (or should I say antique) greek text. Well, the store owner certainly knew his books, and was quite friendly as well. So, yeah, this place is definitely worth exploring.

There's no way I could not like this store. It's quite possible I may permanently move in one day…read more Fair warning. Antiquarian, second-hand and quality remaindered books of tremendous quality, all displayed with care. They specialise in arts and the humanities. They stock a idiosyncratic range of world music, jazz and blugrass cd's, classics and foreign films on dvd. There's a weird rope of enormo wooden beads hanging from the ceiling like a monk the size of Godzilla left his prayer beads behind. Every time I go in here, I come out clutching something I didn't previously know I desperately needed. Bio on Remedios Varo too gobsmackingly gorgeous and rare to let anyone else touch. Remaindered Wodehouse for $11. Weird kid's sticker books. Cd of old, old blues tracks from the Smithsonian collection including the positively brilliant 'Beer-Drinking Woman.' Sigh. Staff are quiet and polite and know their quartos from their octavos and the aesthetic appeal of some gentle foxing. And the books, well, it's lucky I'm not here more often. I'd bankrupt myself.

It's a glorious sunny Saturday and I have a wedding in four hours…read more I'm MCing said wedding. I have a few pages of ballpoint scrawl, scarred with notes, arrows and scratch-outs. I can't read from this. But it's the weekend, even if I type my speech up, where can I get it printed? *Office Choice rides in on a shiny white unicorn* Not just a repository of everything good and great in the stationery world, Office Choice (and, by proxy, their mascot Judy the office lady), can print my notes at short notice. I honestly do not know what I would have done without them. YOU GUYS THE WEDDING IS SAVED!

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Having heard so many stories of Aborginal artists ripped off by galleries, my suspicions are eased…read moreby the detailed info provided with pieces in Ochre. Many of the arts & crafts come with information on the artists - even some lovely wooden bracelets had photos and 'design owned by' material with them. You see the words 'Aboriginal owned art centres' all over the place as sources for the artworks, so you can be sure that you're supporting the artists, not merely some exploitative middleman. The very visibility of this info quietens the nervous flutters, and makes a change from some of the more dodgy city galleries. And the work itself! Surely no-one needs to be sold on the seeing-through time experience of staring at a real piece of Indigenous artistry. Works on paper, bark, weaving, jewellery, carving, even dolls named in language and translated for your own little one - there's a bit of everything in here. The staffer who was on duty the other day was quietly efficient, and I had a lovely browse through the books, music and art on offer. There's even books for the kids (something you don't see often enough in most bookshops) and there was one artwork I felt if I looked into long enough, it might just spirit me away.