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QAGOMA Store

QAGOMA Store is a trio of brilliant retail outlets located within QAG and GOMA where you’ll find everything from the world’s best art and culture publications

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QAGOMA Store is a trio of brilliant retail outlets located within QAG and GOMA where you’ll find everything from the world’s best art and culture publications

Read On

The best of fiction, non-fiction, niche topics and children’s literature at these quality bookshops.

The Book Merchant Jenkins West End
West End

The Book Merchant Jenkins

The Book Merchant Jenkins is Brisbane's most beautiful second-hand bookstore, inside an historic West End church
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Iwan Bookshop, New Farm
New Farm

Iwan Bookshop

Iwan is a charming, independent bilingual bookshop and cafe in New Farm, offering books in English and Persian
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QAGOMA Store
South Brisbane

Qagoma Store

QAGOMA Store is a trio of brilliant retail outlets located within QAG and GOMA where you’ll find everything from the world’s best art and culture publications
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Book Face Orion Springfield Central
Springfield Central

Book Face Orion

Book Face Orion at Springfield Central offers a welcoming space to browse books and enjoy a cup of coffee
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Red Hill

Scrumptious Reads

Scrumptious Reads in Red Hill is not only a cute suburban book nook, it’s also an event space and a private dining room.
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The Mad Hatters Bookshop Manly
Manly

The Mad Hatters Bookshop

This cute little bookshop by the bay is a wonderland of delightful surprises and has big kids and little kids alike completely enchanted.
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Little Gnome Wynnum
Wynnum

Little Gnome

Little Gnome is Wynnum's independent bookstore/café where cups of coffee are served alongside literary classics & new novels
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Lounge seating area and books inside Books @ Stones bookshop in Stones Corner
Stones Corner

Books@stones

This gem of a little bookshop can be found sharing a piece of astroturf and some footpath furniture with Green Door Cafe next door.
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Books and books shelves inside the Library Shop next to the State Library of Queensland
South Bank

The Library Shop

There is far more to the collection than can be found on the shelves at this fantastic little shop under the State Library.
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Riverbend Books in Bulimba
Bulimba

Riverbend Books

It’s hard to say what takes centre stage here – the book shop or the bamboo and sheer-screened cafe on the deck.
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New Farm Editions shop front with books and gifts in window.
New Farm

New Farm Editions

In the heart of Merthyr Village lies this one stop emporium for books, gifts, trinkets, kidstuff and lovely things for the home.
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Women sitting at table and browsing books on bookshelves inside Mary Ryan’s Books in Milton
Milton

Mary Ryan’s Books

Here is one of those places that is so many things to different people.
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People sitting around cafe area inside Avid Reader Bookshop reading books.
West End

Avid Reader Bookshop

A bookshop that hits all the right pages with locals and visitors alike, Avid is a gem of a place.
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Cbd

Pulp Fiction

Upstairs in the quaint retro Blocksidge & Ferguson Arcade is the go-to bookstore for everything sci-fi, fantasy, horror, crime
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