It's time I got out of country Victoria and into Melbourne, isn't it? Today, thanks to picking up an eBay purchase from Malvern, I did just that ... via a couple of bookshops in Armadale.
Grant's Bookshop used to be in Prahran, but is now located in Armadale's High Street ... sort of. The sign resides in High Street, but the shop itself is at the back of number 909, down a little laneway. This bookshop has a very erudite feel about it ... I think it's the sheer volume of massive old tomes on various subjects on display! There are loads of books in the shop itself, and more in another room out the back. The shop is particularly good for Australian fiction - all the genres contain shelves full of Australian novels as well as the ones from Britain, the USA and other countries.
Just along High Street is Berkelouw Books, which I was keen to visit having loved the one opposite Eumundi Markets in Queensland when we were up there a couple of years ago. The Eumundi one was huge, with new books at the front of the shop and an amazing second-hand collection at the back. The Armadale shop just doesn't have the space for them to do that, however, and it's mostly new books, with just a couple of cases of antiquarian titles. It's still worth going in for a browse, however!
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