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The Book Warehouse Ballina

Locality: Ballina, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6686 0917

Address: 165 River Street 2478 Ballina, NSW, Australia

Website: https://thebwh.com/

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25.01.2022 Some much anticipated releases from two of our favourite Australian authors have arrived in store today! The long awaited Two Lost Mountains by Matthew Reilly, and Trust - the third book in the Scrublands series - by Chris Hammer. Get on in and grab a copy today!

25.01.2022 You’re invited to stop what you’re doing for an hour, pick up a book and read to yourself or the children in your life.

24.01.2022 We love to hear about everyone’s favourite books! I’ll leave mine below!

20.01.2022 Today is national Love Your Bookshop Day! While this year has been an extremely tough one, we are so grateful for the ongoing support of our local community w...hich has made 2020 one of our busiest years ever! Thank you for loving your local bookshop. We're returning the love by giving you the opportunity to win a $200 gift voucher. Just purchase instore today and go in the draw to win. It's that easy. As usual we are open from 9 until 2, so come on in and 'Love Your Bookshop' and reap the rewards!

20.01.2022 We can’t keep up with the games and puzzles at this time of year! We’ve just had a big restock with more to come. Get in quick because they are flying out the door. We have kids games, adult games, trivia, puzzles, chess sets, playing cards and so much more! We also have a beautiful range of art supplies that we are topping up all the time. Come on in and have a look around and find the perfect Christmas gift for your loved ones! We’re open 7 days a week so there is plenty of time to stop in and see us!

19.01.2022 Have a great Saturday evening.

18.01.2022 So excited that Searching for Charlotte by best-selling author sisters Kate Forsyth and Belinda Murrell is now in our stores! (also available on our website ...www.thebwh.com) This is the perfect Christmas gift for lovers of Australian history, particularly women. Review by Heather E Zubek Have you heard of the Bosom Factor? A book has the Bosom Factor when upon finishing, you clutch it to your chest waiting for your breath to return. Searching for Charlotte: The Fascinating Story of Australia's First Children's Author by the talented authors (and sisters!) Belinda Murrell and Kate Forsyth has the Bosom Factor. Belinda and Kate have researched the story of Charlotte Waring Atkinson, Australia's first children's book author and their great-great-great-great grandmother. The sisters grew up hearing stories of bushrangers, sea faring adventures and tragedy and decided to work together to bring Charlotte's story to life. Readers follow Belinda and Kate as they go in search of Charlotte's family home in the UK. The sisters also travel across the Southern Highlands following the trail that led their ancestors to Sydney and home again on the family estate. Charlotte's story has it all - undying love, mystery, adventure, violence, grief but above all incredible triumph. But this is also a story about two of our most gifted writers who had the courage to share their own lives with us - even if it was at times painful. Searching for Charlotte is not just a story about the life of our first children's author, it is a history lesson and a love story. Read it.

17.01.2022 'Tis the season to shop local! This year has been hard on everyone, but especially indepently owned businesses. This year it is more important than ever to make sure that we support the little people and spend our money locally through these companies to make sure that they are able to stay open at the end of all of this. Big business doesn't offer you personal service, recommendations, friendly faces (who can remember customers by name!), custom orders and support of commun...ities and schools through donations and promotions. Please remember to be nice to retail workers this holiday season - if you don't agree with a price or an item, just smile and say thank you, or ask us if there's anything we can offer to help you out. It is cool to be kind and we appreciate the support from our local communities!

16.01.2022 Another big release today with the new novel from best selling author Jodi Picoult! Keep your eyes out over the next few weeks as there are some fabulous releases coming out in time for Christmas!!

16.01.2022 STAFF REVIEW The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel Amy says: After the beauty that was Betty, this book had some big shoes to fill - and it definitely did not disappoint. The book is set in the same town as Betty - Breathed - and features a character named Fielding Bliss who is introduced briefly at the end of Betty. Fielding’s father Autopsy posts an ad to the Devil in the local newspaper inviting him to come to the town. Unexpectedly, the devil arrives... in Breathed in the form of a young boy who goes by the name Sal. The story follows the journey of Sal and Fielding and the events that unfold in the presence of the ‘devil’. There is a lot of prejudice within the book towards both boys, Sal for the suspicion of really being the devil, Fielding for befriending him in the first place, and the Bliss family for adopting him as one of their own. This books was so beautifully written and so descriptive. It was nothing like anything I have ever read before, but I couldn’t put it down. It was an emotional rollercoaster that had me torn between sobbing and laughing and anger and everything in between. Tiffany McDaniels books are by far the two best that I have read in 2020, and I can’t wait to see what she has up her sleeve for the next one!

15.01.2022 Who else is guilty of this?

15.01.2022 Happy New Year to you all from the team at The Book Warehouse Ballina! We thank all of our amazing customers for the support and love that we received over this crazy year that was 2020. We are reopen tomorrow from 9am to 4pm and will be ready for all your holiday reading needs!

14.01.2022 The new Lonely Planet 2020 range Can you spot it?

14.01.2022 We appreciate the support of our amazing customers this holiday season. Don’t forget that we also provide personal service, special ordering of your favourite books and reviews and recommendations for your next reads - you won’t find that in your big retailers

14.01.2022 Your kind of happiness?

13.01.2022 Thank you Barak, your reading habits have always been inspirational and your books equally so! Come on in to your local book stores to buy A Promised Land and many more wonderful books just as the man says! In Ballina, Lismore, Coffs Harbour, Grafton and online at www.thebwh.com

11.01.2022 Today is the release of the much anticipated presidential memoir from Barack Obama ‘A Promised Land’ and our stock has hit the shelves first thing this morning! If you caught Monday nights interview on the Project and heard some of the amazing stories from Obama’s life, then you will know why these has been so much excitement for this book! Don’t forget we also stock Michelle Obama’s biography ‘Becoming’ which can be paired with Baracks book to make the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!

08.01.2022 One of our well read customers, Ivan, has a coffee every morning and likes to accompany it with a short story or essay. He's chronicled his latest and best reads and here they are. What a great idea!

08.01.2022 The newest crime fiction thriller from Jane Harper has officially arrived in store today and is sure to be a favourite!

07.01.2022 STAFF REVIEW Betty by Tiffany McDaniel Serenity says: Betty Carpenter is the sixth of eight siblings born in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother. In the face of poverty and discrimination, Betty finds solace in the stories of her father and strength from the land and from her Cherokee ancestors so that she can persevere through struggle. Betty is resilient, drawing from her curiosity for nature, her love for her siblings and her father’s stories to find an escape...: writing. This is her story. There is an enormous weight to this book that has left me unable to stop thinking about it. Tiffany McDaniel’s ‘Betty’ is infused with a multitude of heavy themes including racism, abuse, and cruelty. I was captivated by the fierce strength of Betty and the deep family and cultural connections. Filled with stunning writing and prose, Betty has left me breathless, but amazed.

07.01.2022 Today is release day for the latest instalment in Anh Do’s best selling Wolfgirl series with boom 4 ‘The Traitor’. We’ve got all of Anhs books which are perfect for young readers! It is also release day for Cat Kid - the newest book from Dav Pilkey, best selling author of Captain Underpants and Dogman! These are perfect gifts for your young readers this Christmas, and we have so many more great titles to choose from!

06.01.2022 It’s a CRIME not to check out these fantastic new releases! Who are your recent favourite crime authors?

06.01.2022 We have just received a big shipment of games just in time for the school holidays! There is also plenty of ideas on these shelves for the perfect birthday or Christmas gifts, or just a special present for someone you love! Come on in and check them out as stock is limited and is sure to go fast!

04.01.2022 Check out this clip with one of our favourite children’s books Pig the Pug being rapped by the sensational Jess Mauboy. Don’t forget to pick up a copy of this hilarious story today! https://youtu.be/mBa5tpV3mKM

04.01.2022 The Booker Prizewinner has been announced. Congratulations to Douglas Stuart for his incredibly moving book Shuggie Bain. Lea and Donna just loved this story... and recommend it highly. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart 'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' Observer It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother’s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place. Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty, it also recalls the work of Édouard Louis, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, a blistering debut by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell. 'We were bowled over by this first novel, which creates an amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' The judges of the Booker Prize

03.01.2022 Who else caught Eddie Jaku on the Project Tonight? What an inspiration. You can pick up a copy of Eddies book The Happiest Man on Earth in store now! It’s a staff favourite and guaranteed to be a great read for everyone!

03.01.2022 Don't forget that we have extended our weekend trading hours in our Ballina store for the holiday period! We are now open 9am to 4pm on Saturdays and 10am to 2pm on Sundays, perfect for your Christmas shopping needs! We are currently open and have plenty of stock on our shelves, so head on down and grab a bargain and pick up the perfect gift for your loved ones for Christmas!