As the Koorong bookstore chain enters a third life, after growth across Australia under its founding family ownership with the Bootes family, then a period in the Bible Society, and since March this year, Excelsia College, the chain is changing… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope column To the Newcastle Writers’ Festival, where The Mushroom Tapes authors Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper, and Sarah Krasnostein show a respect for the Baptist beliefs of the victim families in the Erin Patterson case. With a generally… Continue Reading
Blue Mountains bookseller, The Wandering Bookseller, is running a “flood sale,” simply because they have been flooded. Having moved across an alleyway in Katoomba, they have been confronted by a leaking roof. “The new home to The Wandering Bookseller (opposite The Little Lost… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column A computer crash: Obadiah was worried back when he worked for Bible Society when the project to rebuild the website, point of sales, warehousing inventory, and book buying systems of the Koorong bookselling operation was launched,… Continue Reading
The ABC opens voting for the top books of the 21st Century: who will you vote for Voting for the ABC’s top 100 books of this century opened today. Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead (2004) and Tom Holland’s Dominion (2019) are already… Continue Reading
Stan Grant and Greg Sheridan sat down to discuss “How Christians Can Succeed Today,” Sheridan’s new book, in the Art Deco Splendour of the lounge at Mosman’s Hayden Orpheum theatre. The event drew representatives of what Sheridan jokingly called the… Continue Reading
Changes in Australia’s book wholesaling system might mean more chances for Christian books in mainstream stores. Some major distributors have picked up on the Christian market, which means a mainstream bookseller or independent Christian store does not need to go… Continue Reading
Simon Camilleri, who has trekked around Australian capital cities to read and recite the Bible, has produced a new book introducing children to prayers. It is literally a prayer book. And the sort of prayers are listed on the title,… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall on speaking with purpose (and giving away books). When a non-Christian friend asks, “How was your day?” Take the opportunity to answer gently with something that raises God, like “I went to the Lunchtime Christian Group at my… Continue Reading
Actor and author Anna McGahan has won Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Vogel for 2023, for a novel. What has that to do with Christianity? Her prizewinning novel, Immaculate, is set in Brisbane, dealing with a young woman’s experience… Continue Reading