At last, news on the bookshop front!

The baton has finally been passed so to speak and Curiosity Bookshop/collectablebooks.com.au has a new proprietor, meet Ilona Rhys.

Many western suburbs book lovers will already know Ilona as the face of Plato's wonderful Bookshop in Sunshine from where she's been known to traipse to other bookstores in search of titles for her customers. With her passion for books and in particular their availability in Melbourne's Western Suburbs, she was the obvious inheritor for our quality collection and web resources. Excitingly Ilona herself has a large collection of rare and interesting books, which she intends to list so stay tuned.

DLO Solutions will still be providing web support (big thanks to David Lopez for the last few years) so all remains steady on that front. Apologies for any lack of interactivity over these past few months as I've been very busy with my work at Second Bite (a food rescue charity organisation Volunteer! Donate!)

Thanks for all of your support these last ten years, from my family and myself and I hope that you show the same support to Ilona.

*Special acknowledgment to Bernard McKay.

We have listed back issues of The Bulletin magazine, Australia's longest running magazine publication. The Bulletin was launched in 1880 and ceased publication in January 2008.

The Bulletin magazine has proven to be influential to Australian history and culture, making our offering of The Bulletin back-issues of possible interest to collectors of iconnic Australian magazines in the current affairs genre. Our entire collection of The Bulletin has been listed in it's own category where numerous issues of the weekly publication from 1986 to 2005 can be ordered from our Curiosity Bookshop website.

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.

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...

If you like Military Magazines, then you are going to love our back-issues of Soldier of Fortune Magazine that we now have available from our website! The issues we have range from the late 1970's and early 1980's.