On Christmas Eve, after 15 years as street level booksellers in Melbourne's west, Curiosity Bookshop closed it's doors. Rising rents, economic circumstances, & changing patterns of custom have conspired to make this type of bookselling unviable, so we go off to join those other great generalist bookshops in that elephant's graveyard of bookstores - the internet.

However, it's not all doom & gloom. On the positive side we have thousands of rare, unusual, interesting, & otherwise collectable books that we might finally get around to listing, [&] for our record customers, the rare vynil site is due for launch in February.

For those who need  a browsing bookstore, the nearest to Spotswood would be...

http://www.westsidestories.com.au/

-Westona: second hand books

http://www.willysbazaar.com.au/index.asp

- Williamstown: books, records, CDs, & collectables

http://www.essendoncdlpbook.com.au/

- Essendon: for books, records & CDs

We would like to extend our thanks to all our customers and the local community for their support over the years, first at Newport, and for the last six years, here in Spotswood.

It's been fun!

Dan