Spoken Stick will take place at the Curiosity Bookshop on Thursday the 16th of April. The spoken word and song night will showcase a number of emerging talents of the spoken word and song variety.

Kyle Ligetwood hails from the far flung stretches of Western Australia and will be performing new original poetic material of exquisite detail and form. She has previously performed at the Poetry Slam Competitions at the St Kilda library.

Cate de Carteret is a musician and will be performing songs of the vulgar and sublime. She studies music at NMIT and has performed at a number of spaces including the Bender Bar Thornbury and various incarnation with Roarhouse, a non-for-profit performance association. You can also wire her up on her myspace site: www.myspace.com/152691414

Julian Lowndes will be performing the poetic alongside Frank Gehrke who will be supporting on guitar with truly atmospheric and jazz inspired improvisations.

Hope to see you there next Thursday!

Our free ebook download section has been relaunched on the website! The changes make maintenance of the free ebook library much easier for us: we can now add new ebooks in less time, meaning that we can make more great ebooks available to you.

The Curiosity Bookshop is pleased to announce the publication in ebook form of "Doing the Dream" by Jenna Carol. This inspiring and infomative ebook that takes you along the challenging path to aquiring and implementing the author's dream of moving out of the city to the bush, where she builds an ecologically friendly house. With limited resources, Jenna shows you how she did it against the odds, complete with detailed plans, sketches and photographs of the project.

The digital ebook is offered for download in our shop

We recently received this lovely collection of Music and Photography books from a lady in Sydney who found us via the website. We warmly appreciate the contribution and proudly present them as part of our online showcase.

Australian Artist Magazine is a monthly magazine for the practising Australian artist that mainly covers oil, watercolour & acrylic painting and pastel & charcoal artwork techniques. Packed with in-depth art articles and demonstrations of the secret techniques used by Australia's leading artists in all mediums.

Do You like Kung-Fu?

Now announcing that The Curiosity Bookshop now has a nice collection of Martial Arts magazines listed on the website! We have a diverse range of Martial Arts magazines, including Black Belt, Official Karate, Fighting Arts, Oriental Fighting Arts, Masters of Self Defense, Combat Magazine and Samurai Magazine so far. Relive the golden age of Martial Arts and Fighting magazines of the '70s and '80s and check out our growing online collection...