Notes from Eve Abbey ~ May 2014
It’s good to have the First Tuesday Book Club back on air.It was especially good to hear those lovely people talk about David Marr’s choice, which was Graham Greene’s The Quiet American - a book which...
View ArticleConversations in Crime Alley Wrap
On the evening of Thursday 10 April... an incident occurred at the premises of Abbey's Bookshop located in downtown Sydney at 131 York Street.Two individuals, identifying themselves as crime...
View ArticleAuthor Event ~ Ceridwen Dovey ~ Only The Animals
Ceridwen Dovey will be appearing at Abbey's on Thursday May 29.Ceridwen's new novel is titled Only the Animals and it contains beautiful and thought-provoking stories that explore the complex...
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Lindy Jones ~ Australian Bookseller Association Inaugural Bookseller of the Year 2011ABBEY'S CHOICE JUNE 2014 - SCIENCEFlying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became BirdsJohn PickrellWritten by a...
View ArticleChildren's Books ~ Reviewed by Lindy Jones
Lindy Jones ~ Australian Bookseller Association Inaugural Bookseller of the Year 2011Monsieur Albert Rides to GloryPeter Smith & Bob GrahamAlbert decides that even if he is 60, he will compete in...
View ArticleNotes from Eve Abbey ~ June 2014
I think it was bad luck for NoViolet Bulawayo that her wonderful book We Need New Names came out the same year as Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries.They are both totally original and totally unusual....
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Lindy Jones ~ Australian Bookseller's Association Inaugural Bookseller of the Year 2011Nicky (Hachette), Brooke and LindyLost and FoundBrooke DavisMillie Bird, aged 7, records dead things in her...
View ArticleNotes from Eve Abbey - July 2014
I was a bit reluctant to begin reading the newly published “latest” book by great Australian writer Elizabeth Harrower’s In Certain Circles.Finished in 1971, the manuscript sat in the National Library...
View ArticleBreaking: Australian musician takes drugs - TALKING SMACK
This young man came into our shop this morning and asked about a book about Australian musicians and drugs.I told him "I'm sorry, we're not that sort of bookshop, sir. Can I interest you in this book...
View ArticleNotes from Eve Abbey ~ August 2014
I suspect you might have to be of “a certain age” in order to fully appreciate the new novel from Linda Grant, Upstairs at the Party.It concerns the lives of a group of young people in the Seventies...
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Lindy Jones ~ Australian Bookseller's Association Inaugural Bookseller of the Year 2011When the Night ComesFavel ParrettABBEY'S CHOICE SEPTEMBER 2014 ----- Set in the 1980s in Hobart and on the...
View ArticleDEMOKRASI: Indonesia in the 21st Century by Hamish McDonald ~ ABBEY'S...
DEMOKRASI: Indonesia in the 21st CenturyHamish McDonaldABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Like many Australians, my knowledge of Indonesia was next to nil. When it did cross my mind, the picture ranged from...
View ArticleNotes from Eve Abbey ~ September 2014
There has been much discussion about a book from a French economist named Thomas Piketty (which doesn’t sound very French) called Capital in the Twenty First Century.It is being compared in importance...
View ArticleLindy Jones has been reading... September 2014
Lindy Jones ~ Australian Bookseller's Association Inaugural Bookseller of the Year 2011H is for HawkHelen MacdonaldMacDonald has been obsessed with the archaic traditions of falconry since early...
View ArticleNotes from Eve Abbey ~ November 2014
Did you see on TV the two episodes of Brilliant Creatures, Howard Jacobson’s documentary about Clive James, Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer and Robert Hughes?It was fascinating and brought back many...
View ArticleLindy Jones picks her Top Fives for 2014
Lindy Jones ~ Australian Bookseller's Association Inaugural Bookseller of the Year 2011Before we get to Lindy's picks we thought you might like to know that Lindy Jones has been invited to join the...
View ArticleNotes from Eve Abbey ~ January 2015
I have had great pleasure reading Robert Dessaix’s latest book.It is a memoir called What Days Are For and is a delightful blend of erudition and plain forthright opinions on love, infatuation, travel,...
View ArticleNotes from Eve Abbey - February 2015
People Passing... January marked the passing of two famous book people, loyal customers of Abbeys.I am sure many of our readers will have memories of Jim Thorburn who began Pocket Bookshop in 1958,...
View ArticleNotes from Eve Abbey ~ March 2015
I recently read the very touching note that Oliver Sacks wrote in The New York Times, announcing that he has liver cancer.Remember his famous books? The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and The...
View ArticleNotes from Eve Abbey ~ April 2015
Not everyone will immediately recognise the term Anchoress, which is the title for Robyn Cadwallader’s intriguing first novel.In the Middle Ages an Anchorite or Anchoress was someone who has withdrawn...
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