Collins Booksellers Follow-Up #2

"The Age" today reports that the Hill of Content, a major bookshop which has operated at the top end of Bourke Street in Melbourne for the past 80-odd years, has been rescued after the collapse of the Collins bookshop chain. The owners of current Collins franchises in Sale and Bairnsdale have purchased the shop and aim to run it as before. Making a profit this time, hopefully. The other good news is that the very knowledgable full-time staff in the shop will be kept on.

Currently Reading

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State of Emergency by Sam Fisher
Cinematic, high-tech, futuristic rescue fiction. This might have started its own genre.

 

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Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
A coming-of-age novel set in a small WA mining town in the 1960s. Ticks all the relevant boxes.

 

Recently Read

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Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Chabon's homage to the adventure novel. Reminiscent of Moorcock and Leiber.

 

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Headlong by Susan Varga
When is life still worth living, or is it better to die with dignity?

 

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The Pages by Murray Bail
Bail's first novel since Eucalyptus, about an Outback genius philosopher - or is he? [Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Award.]

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