Bookshops

The finest range of photography books in Australia, along with quality discounted books on the visual arts, music, design, collectibles and more. We mail order around the world, and our complete photography database can be found on our website. We also have a fantastic range of postcards, (new and vintage), calendars and calendar prints.

The Wood Works Book & Tool Co. in Sydney, Australia, is an independently owned retail and mail-order supply company specialising in fine hand tools and wood working books. We supply the woodworking trades, professional artisans, enthusiasts, schools and higher education institutions across Australia and the world.

Independent bookstore selling a wide range of books in art, architecture, design, visual arts, movies, drama and our children's book range is one of the most extensive in Sydney. Special orders taken and researched. Free freight within Australia for orders over $150.

Abbey's have extensive sections for General Fiction, Biography, Travel, Music, Art, Religion, Psychology, Reference, Writing and Publishing and Children’s Books. Other niche areas include Food and Wine, Gardening, Theatre and Film, Plays, Poetry and Sociology. Our real strength is in our backlist. With books from publishers throughout the world, we have a reputation for carrying most Cambridge University Press titles, as well as a wide range from Australian, American and British university presses. We also stock most Penguin titles, including the entire range of Penguin Classics.

ABC Centres throughout NSW with a wide range of available art books

A huge converted barn, complete with a hayloft and surrounded by paddocks, cattle and all manner of rural paraphernalia, the Book Barn is the kind of place where you can easily lose track of the time. It is packed to the rafters with tomes on hundreds of subjects - from classic fiction, treatise on the occult to aviation manuals.
We encourage our customers to make a day of their visit. Browse at a leisurely pace for as long as you like. In winter, curl up in front of our fireplace. Then, when you're all browsed out, take a seat at our cafe and enjoy some lunch and a coffee.

Established in 1996, Better Read Than Dead has been recognised many times for its commitment to its customers. From the moment Better Read Than Dead opened, it has been the quality and specialsed knowledge of our booksellers that sets the store apart. Our staff's outside work interests include: music, theatre and stagecraft, history and international commerce. This, together with a collective passion for books and reading, provides the ideal environment for us to excel at providing you with the best in reading.

An Australian online bookstore with over 1 million titles online. Post up to 50 books Australia wide for AUD$6.50

Our second store opposite the Museum of Contemporary Art in The Rocks offers a large but discriminating range of books sourced from both local and international publishers. We are absolutely committed to providing a range of quality services for all our patrons. Our primary objective is to provide a bold and eclectic range of the best new and classic titles, with a speciality in art, architecture, design and film.

Nestled in the heart of the glorious, World-Heritage-listed Blue Mountains, in a massive 3-storey superannuated Bank Building, sits the delightfully eccentric books and antiques shop known as Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books and Antiques. It contains some 60,000 books in all, ranging from rare and arcane leather-bound antiquities through extensive sections on Art, Architecture and Literature to a virtual second-bookshop upstairs containing some 4,000 Penguins and a further 10,000 paperbacks and cheaper editions.