Shop Opening Hours:
Monday-Friday: 9am - 5pm
Saturday: 9am - 12noon
(Australian Central Standard Time)

Closed all national and local public holidays
including Easter Saturday and Adelaide Cup

Phone: (08) 8344 6457
Orders to: [email protected]

Street Address:
30 Smith St Walkerville South Australia 5081
Mailing Address:
PO Box 1 Collinswood South Australia 5081

Stephen Michael King's hugely successful first picture book THE MAN WHO LOVED BOXES, won the Family Award for Children's Books in 1996, and was shortlisted in the Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustration. Stephen's BEETLE SOUP has also been shortlisted by the Children's Book Council of Australia. Stephen works mainly with watercolours and ink. He's also partially deaf and very handsome.

Individual title availability is updated three times a week, so reports are normally accurate.

From time to time however, we can have multiple orders come in between website updates so availability reports for a short period of time may be inaccurate, which means a title listed as "In Stock" may need to go to backorder.

Garth Nix was born in Melbourne on a Saturday, and got married on a Saturday to his publisher wife, Anna. So Saturday is a good day. He used to write on a Sunday, because over the years he had a number of day jobs - as bookseller, editor, PR consultant, literary agent - that nearly always started on a Monday (and far too early). Tuesday often brings luck - like the news that Abhorsen had hit The New York Times best-seller list. When Garth was in the Australian Army Reserve, Wednesday was training night. Thursday is memorable, because that's when his son, Tom, was born. Now that Garth is a full-time writer, Friday is less important than it used to be as the end of the working week. On any day, Garth may generally be found near Coogee Beach, in Sydney, where he and his family live.