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The Book Warehouse Lismore

Locality: Lismore, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6621 4204

Address: 107-109 Keen Street 2480 Lismore, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.thebwh.com/

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24.01.2022 We're here for you.

23.01.2022 This gorgeous new picture book has just arrived instore and it is a reminder that sometimes good things come from adversity. Such a positive take on a difficult year.

23.01.2022 It’s a brand new year and life as we’ve come to know it goes on. We wish you books and happiness in whatever form that takes. We’re closed today but open again tomorrow from 9 until 2.

23.01.2022 Which one of these creative minds doesn't have a new memoir on the shelf? Well Paul has one and so does Dolly - so Sara must still be working on hers! The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower by Paul Hogan...Continue reading

22.01.2022 Have a great Saturday evening.

22.01.2022 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

22.01.2022 New on our shelves - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam A family heads off on holidays and it doesn’t go well. This is a beautifully constructed story, full of suspense but so much more! Unsettling & unclassifiable, Sarah & Lea loved it. Dystopian but also redemptive, it’s definitely in the running for best book of the year!

20.01.2022 It’s Friday night. Get lost in a book.

20.01.2022 Congratulations Alison! On our shelves now.

19.01.2022 Jane Harper’s new book The Survivors hit our shelves yesterday and between the hustle and bustle of our busy shop Caz managed this colour/cover co-ordinated window. It’s hard to get a good pic & it doesn’t do it justice, so just come on in and have a look & grab a copy!

18.01.2022 Get organised and avoid disappointment...

18.01.2022 Or as we say, pyjamas!

17.01.2022 The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the winners of this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing. Best Crime Fiction The Wife and the Widow by Christian White...Continue reading

16.01.2022 John Steinbeck was an incredible writer. He was born on this day in 1902. If you feel the need to read or reread one of his amazing books, we’re open until 2 so you can stock up. I’d have a hard time choosing a favourite but it’s probably The Grapes of Wrath.

16.01.2022 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!

16.01.2022 Hope your Monday is as good as this! The Shadow King by Mazza Mengiste Shortlisted for this year’s Booker prize, The Shadow King is the previously untold story of the Ethiopian women who took up arms & defended their country during Mussolini’s invasion in 1935. This is an epic and important story,... beautifully told. See more

15.01.2022 Here's the Lismore staff's favourite reads during the month of October. Highly recommended by Ben and Darius The Gruffalo's Child by Julia Donaldson...Continue reading

12.01.2022 Beginning today, we’re opening Sundays from 10 until 2 to help with your Christmas shopping. Books make the best gifts.

12.01.2022 JRR Tolkien was born on this day in 1892 and his wisdom is timeless.

12.01.2022 Today is Lismore Race Day so our hours are amended. We're here from 9 until 12. Then we're going home to read to a horse.

12.01.2022 Here's some more recommended reading from our family and friends! It's almost the weekend (again!) We're open today until 5.30 and tomorrow, Saturday, from 9 until 2 if you see something below that takes your fancy. The Little Book of Cricket The Little Book of Cricket encapsulates the often hilarious, sometimes sombre and occasionally downright bizarre quotes as the greats of the game, from Don Bradman to Steve Waugh and Ian Botham to Freddie Flintoff, all describe their ...Continue reading

10.01.2022 It’s Saturday & we’re open until 2 to help with your weekend reading. There’s so much wonderful stock coming into the store! Our shop is a bibliophilic delight. And the weather is glorious, so take your book outside.

10.01.2022 Happiest of birthdays to our very special Book Detective Lea from Lismore! Lea puts an incredible amount of energy and passion into getting our wonderful new release books and orders out into the Lismore Book Warehouse store so thank you from all of us xxx

09.01.2022 It's International Women's Day and to mark it we're sharing some of our favourite women in books recently read by our Lismore staff. Lea's reading Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen and can't get enough of Majella and her story. Other people find Majella odd. She keeps herself to herself and ever since her da disappeared during the Troubles, Majella has tried to live a quiet life with her alcoholic mother but the trials of life haven't finished with Majella just yet. ... Caz is re-reading The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and is impressed by Egwene Al'vere - 'Whatever she does, she does with her whole heart'. Sarah R is reading The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters. Frances, born into an upper class family is left penniless after the First World War. Resilience is born of necessity! Kate is reading Rogue by AJ Betts. Hayley has gone rogue. She's left everything she's ever known - her friends, her bees, her whole life - because her curiosity was too big to fit within the walls of her underwater home. And Beth is reading A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas. Feyre Archeron - "Not consort, not wife. Feyre is High Lady of the Night Court. Sara can't choose between the three female protagonists in The Performance by Claire Thomas. What fabulous female characters are you celebrating?

09.01.2022 The Longlist for the Stella Awards has just been announced & there are some wonderful Australian female writers featured!

08.01.2022 It's Naidoc Week - inform yourself. We have some wonderful book suggestions below. Always on our shelves. Always Was, Always Will Be....Continue reading

08.01.2022 As the year closes, it’s nice to reflect on the books you’ve read & the ways they’ve changed or impacted you. What books have changed or confirmed your world views?

07.01.2022 Here's the Lismore staff's favourite books read in September - Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo The DC Icons adventure of the world’s greatest super heroWONDER WOMANby #1 New York Times bestselling author LEIGH BARDUGO. She will become one of the world’s greatest heroes, but first she is Diana, princess of the Amazons. And her fight is just beginning. . . ....Continue reading

07.01.2022 Dune by Frank Herbert is coming back to the big screen in December this year. Read the book first! There's lots of copies on our shelves. "It has sold millions of copies, is perhaps the greatest novel in the science-fiction canon and Star Wars wouldn’t have existed without it. Frank Herbert’s Dune should endure as a politically relevant fantasy from the Age of Aquarius." (Hari Kunzru writing for The Guardian)

06.01.2022 Certainly can be...

05.01.2022 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 which 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!

05.01.2022 Trent Dalton's new book All Our Shimmering Skies is on our shelves today! All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton The international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with a glorious novel destined to become another Australian classic.... 'A glinting, big-hearted miracle of a book' Richard Glover Darwin, 1942, and as Japanese bombs rain down, motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger's daughter, is looking to the skies and running for her life. Inside a duffel bag she carries a stone heart, alongside a map to lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer who she believes put a curse on her family. By her side are the most unlikely travelling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a fallen Japanese fighter pilot. The treasure lies before them, but close behind them trails the dark. And above them, always, are the shimmering skies. A story about gifts that fall from the sky, curses we dig from the earth and the secrets we bury inside ourselves, All Our Shimmering Skies is an odyssey of true love and grave danger, of darkness and light, of bones and blue skies. It is a love letter to Australia and an ode to the art of looking up - a buoyant, beautiful and magical novel, abrim with warmth, wit and wonder. 'As Australian as outback red dirt and as universal as the sky young Molly Hook's journey takes place beneath, All Our Shimmering Skies is an open-hearted wonder, by turns heartbreaking and full of hope, no less than an instant classic' Venero Armanno 'Australia has a new literary hero. Molly Hook - part Cordelia, part Jo March, part Pippi Longstocking - pulls us into a story and a landscape that is mythic, beguiling and almost hallucinatory in its beauty. And instantly recognisable as our own' Kristina Olsson 'This is storytelling at its absolute purest, a truly courageous expression of longing, hope and love against unimaginable odds' Asher Keddie

04.01.2022 We have a river of amazing books coming into our store as October & the silly season approaches! Come & ask a bookseller for their tips! You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller. John Green Wisconsin Historical Society 1896.

04.01.2022 It’s Sunday. Make it count.

03.01.2022 We had a great Love Your Bookshop Day on Saturday 3rd October, and we're delighted to present the winner of the $200 voucher. We hope you have a lovely time choosing your books Shayne!

03.01.2022 We're celebrating five years on Facebook in our Lismore store and we've had some great entries for our $200 voucher giveaway. If you haven't sent us a photo of your favourite books read during 2020, the books that helped you through a tough year, then get busy photographing your stack and message us with your selection TODAY. We'll be choosing our winner tomorrow!... Here's some of our staff member's photos to inspire you.

02.01.2022 To those who have sent us photos of the books that made 2020 bearable, thank you, we’re loving your choices & creativity. It’s not too late for the rest of you to get busy with your entries. We’re celebrating five years on Facebook so we want you to snap a picture of the books that sustained you in 2020 and send in Messenger. We’ll choose our creative favourite on Friday 15th January and that person will receive a $200 voucher! Here’s Sarah R’s collection of books that helped her get through 2020.

02.01.2022 Actually we have more than one witch...

01.01.2022 Congratulations to the winning authors, illustrators and publishers of the CBCA 2020 Book of the Year Awards.