Curiosity Bookshop 1994 - 2009

Sad but true..

After more than 15 years as street-level booksellers in Melbourne's west, Curiosity Bookshop is to close it's doors permanently & join the ghosts of other great book shops, in that bookstore graveyard known as 'the internet'. Rising rents in combination with the current economic circumstances, have conspired to make what was already a marginal business at best, a loss. So we too will soon be an 'online only' entity.

We will be having a stock reduction sale before we close the doors later this year - stay tuned for details

We would like to thank all of our loyal customers, & members of the local community who have shown great support to us over the years, first at Newport, & for the last six years, here in Spotswood. 

Thank You & good night

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!

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

MEDIA RELEASE (ACP Magazines)

Thursday, 24 January 2008

ACP Magazines Chief Executive Officer, Scott Lorson, today announced that weekly news and current affairs title The Bulletin with Newsweek would cease publication from the current issue of the magazine which went on sale on 23 January 2008.

The Bulletin is Australia’s longest running magazine and was launched in 1880.

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (Text/Penguin NZ) has topped New Zealand's bestseller charts for the year, with over 46,000 copies sold in NZ.

The finalists in the 2008 Aurealis Awards, which recognise the best Australian works in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror, have been announced.