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    • Release of Alistair Stewart's Plain and Purl
    • 20 April 2012 -
    • Last Saturday, Plain and Purl, by Alistair Stewart, the brand new poetry collection out through Merrijig Word & Sound Co., was launched by Father Bob in Melbourne. We're happy to report that there are some freshly minted copies available here at BB, so come on in and check out a major voice on the contemporary poetry scene.
    • Easter Hours for Geelong and Queenscliff 2012
    • 26 March 2012 - Kate
    • Geelong will be shut Good Friday April 6, open for Saturday 7th and closed for Sunday and Monday the 8th & 9th of April. We then reopen as usual between 10 - 5pm. 

      Queenscliff will be open daily from Friday April 1st until April 16th from 11-5pm. 
    • Labour Day Weekend Opening Hours
    • 09 March 2012 -
    • Queenscliff hours on Monday will be the usual, 11 to 5.
    • Kloester on Heyer - on Radio National
    • 09 March 2012 -
    • A fascinating debate for snobs and philistines alike, on the merits or otherwise of Georgette Heyer's fiction, was broadcast on RN on Friday March 9. Triggered by the recent release of Jennifer Kloester's biography of Heyer, a lively and sometimes even edgy discussion ensued, with Books & Arts Daily host Michael Cathcart adopting the rather antipodean thesis that Heyer was unreadable due to her terrible English snobbery and Sloanishness. Kloester and Melanie LaBrooy (contemporary Australian author of romance fiction) fought back cheerily (chins up chaps!) and as the conversation developed the ironies began to multiply. Was Cathcart betraying tendencies towards literary snobbishness whilst actually masquerading as an archetypal Australian allergic to class structures? Had Kloester and LaBrooy, in defending Heyer, become the truly democratic, and politically incorrect, champions of a great favourite of the 'common reader'?

      An interesting fact that wasn't mentioned was that Kloester's biography was treated harshly by some reviewers in the UK, in part no doubt because she had the audacity, as a mere 'subject of the Dominions', to become the official biographer of their Georgette. 

      Anyway, here's a link to the show so you can make up your own mind: (if you're listening through a bakelite radio it might sound even better).

    • Queenscliff Store Autumn Hours
    • 24 February 2012 -
    • After a great Christmas and holiday period, from Monday the 27th of February our Queenscliff store will revert to being open on weekends only, from 11 until 5.
    • Books About Love
    • 03 February 2012 -

    • Just in time for the most romantic season of the year - the indian summer - and just in case you thought Barwon Booksellers didn’t have a heart, we’ve been entrusted with selections 79 to 90 in the Readers Of Regional Australia Valentines Day List of the Best Ever Books About Love. It’s an initiative bound to provoke debate, and we took it upon ourselves to prove that in 2012 the quality goes deeper than ever.

      Here are our choices -

      Andrea:

      79. The Summer Book – Tove Jansson

      80. Lay Your Sleeping Head – WH Auden

      Anne:

      81. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

      82. Mediterranean Food - Elizabeth David

      Gregory:

      83. The Marsh Birds – Eva Sallis

      84. Voss – Patrick White

      Ian:

      85. The Complete Poetry of John Donne

      86. Let The Right One In – Jon Lindqvist

      Kate:

      87. The Mirror Of Her Dreams – Stephen Donaldson

      88. Georgette Heyer – These Old Shades

      Peter:

      89. Touch Me I’m Sick – The 52 Creepiest Love Songs You’ve Ever Heard – Tom Reynolds

      90. The Edible Balcony – Indira Naidoo

    • Books & Memories Afresh This Year
    • 20 January 2012 -
    • Sagas spoken around peaty fires transforming into illuminated manuscripts. Gutenberg printed pages mechanistically multiplying into Penguin paperbacks. Ebooks instantly exploding into the latest app. Every new rung of technological evolution highlights the intensely felt beauties of the prior form. In 2012 at BB we're all about the five-sense pleasure that is the paper book. And all the things that go along with it. Particularly yours, ours, and other people's memories. Yes, books and memories. You see a book on your shelf. You remember where you read it. Rushdie's The Jaguar Smile on a beach in Turkey. The Scarlet Letter on a holiday in Thailand. Robinson Crusoe in the heart of Norlane.

      Looking forward to seeing you in the store in 2012.



    • Geelong Christmas Hours.
    • 16 December 2011 -
    • Queenscliff Summer Hours
    • 16 December 2011 -
    • A Rare Event Here At BB
    • 09 December 2011 -

    • Tonight we are excited to welcome Jennifer Kloester to an event celebrating the publication of her biography of Georgette Heyer. The book – Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller - will be launched by Heyer fan Kerry Greenwood, who is also of course a bestselling author herself. Proceedings get underway at 6pm here at Barwon Booksellers 2 James St Geelong. Copies of the book will be available, as will Jennifer herself for signings. 

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