Spring is here, at last! It has been a long hard winter this year. We are bracing ourselves for the future as we are being told that we are heading into the worst el Nino conditions this October to January. But that was not the exciting news, far from it.
No, the exciting bit is that we have put our bookshop online so you can now buy from the books you have seen in our Lockhart shop, in between visits to the town. It is something we have wanted to do for a while now so we can better promote our physical presence by venturing into the online world. We still encourage people to visit and discover us in Lockhart which is a pretty little spot in the Riverina but we understand that Lockhart is not exactly on the regular route map for many and you might only be in town once or twice a year.
I am working each day to put more of our extensive stock on the website so keep an eye out on a regular basis as it is worth seeing what is new. We run a browsing shop where you have the opportunity to stumble across gems you never knew about or were on your 'one day' list but if you don't see what you are looking for, you are welcome to contact us via the store website and we will see if we have what you want in our 'yet to be catalogued' pile. As you can imagine, it is quite a task and we were eager to get the site up and running and too impatient to wait until I had everything entered to 'go live'. My goal is to catalogue a pile of at least ten books a day so there will be something new all the time.
Here's the link to the new bluebird-books shop. www.bluebird-books.com Have fun shopping for a good book and remember, we hand pick our stock based on my long library background of reading and matching readers with good books. I know a lot of readers and they have been recommending books to me for many years so I rely on their impeccable taste as much as my own. I have also stocked the shop with books I've read with my many book groups. You won't find any of the well-known mass produced romance series or churned out mysteries in our collection I'm afraid. And I haven't gone for fantasy collections either for the simple reason that if you don't have the whole series all the time then you are usually missing the one particular book that the serious collector is looking for. No, we specialise in good fiction, literature but not high-brow literary, Australian and New Zealand works, some classics, small print run local histories and a selection of Australian historical texts from a private academic collection.
Read and Enjoy.
