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Words By Workman

Locality: South Brisbane, Queensland

Address: West End 4101 South Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.wordsbyworkman.wordpress.com

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23.01.2022 #booksineedtoread

22.01.2022 We are open Easter Sat & Mon. Following all govt guidelines #easteropeninghours #easter #socialdistancing2020 #books #puzzles #boardgames #familylife #familytime #shoplocal #shopsmallbusinesses #ourstonescorner

22.01.2022 I'd love to start my own business in Australia doing something like this. #buyindependent

19.01.2022 The Post office, Cafe (Takeaways) and Bookshop are open today until 4 pm. We have all the boredom busters you need!The Post office, Cafe (Takeaways) and Bookshop are open today until 4 pm. We have all the boredom busters you need!

15.01.2022 #aussieclassics

13.01.2022 "We are among the leaders in the humanities. Our art and literature are celebrated in this country and across the world. Many learn from what we do to create and spread our knowledge of diversity, history and culture. This knowledge improves how a nation thinks about itself, and tries to make more room for those who are less fortunate. I wonder how we will be able to survive in an uncertain future if we deliberately set out, in the worst of times, to make studying in the humanities unaffordable for those less able to afford it." ~ Alexis Wright is a Miles Franklin Literary Award and Stella Prize winning author, and Boisbouvier chair in Australian literature.

12.01.2022 Keen to read all the books on this year's list, but especially The Yield.

07.01.2022 Good morning avid readers and those who have become avid readers by the force of quarantine! We have made the decision to remain open, but browsing will b...e off the table for now. We are still here for all of your book needs - by phone, online and in person - you just won’t be able to come into the store. If you call us ahead of time or order online, we can have your selections ready to go to minimise time spent outside of your home. You can even do a drive-by and we can pass your order to you through your car window! Our staff are still working hard to get all phone and online orders out, as well as helping with recommendations over the phone. Thank you once again to those who have been supporting us in this time. Happy reading and quarantining See more

03.01.2022 It’s publication day in Australia for FATHOMS: the world in the whale by Rebecca Giggs. ‘A marvel: a glorious, prismatic, deeply affecting hymn to the beauty, m...ajesty, and extremity of whales and the human imagining of them.’ James Bradley More here: scribepublications.com.au/fathoms

03.01.2022 "The staff at Hachette who walked out were not behaving like publishers, they were acting as censors. I have been watching Woody Allen films since I was a child and I would like to read his book. I would even want to read his book if he were found guilty, because I am interested in the man, his work and his life. I do not check up on the moral purity or criminal record of a writer before I read them. I would have to strip my bookshelves of many of the writers I love the most ...if I were going to start to apply the principles of the Hachette staff. TS Eliot and Roald Dahl for a start, as antisemites. In fact most of the English canon would have to be chucked on that basis... As publishers, in fact, the conduct of the staff who protested is highly questionable. I do not want to read books that are good for me or that are written by people whose views I always agree with or admire. I am always afraid when a mob, however small and well read, exercises power without any accountability, process or redress. That frightens me much more than the prospect of Woody Allen’s autobiography hitting the bookstores." #controversial #interesting

01.01.2022 "PICK OF THE WEEK Living with the Anthropocene Edited by Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner & Jenny Newell NewSouth, $34.99... It's not hard to see why some scholars have nicknamed the Anthropocene 'the Obscene', given what we've done to our planet. The beauty of this collection is that it walks a tightrope over this chasm self-disgust and dread without toppling into it. After his brother's death, global warming lost all meaning for Tony Birch. It was only as he walked his country along the Yarra where he felt his brother's presence, and as he reconnected with young people who refused to be defeated, that he realised "I must be in the world in order to respect it." From James Bradley on cuttlefish to Saskia Beudel on the changing soundscape of her mother's garden, the quality of writing in these pieces, their delight in nature and their determination not to give in to despair make for stirring reading despite the grim truths they confront."