Collecting Piz Gloria

Today is the ninth anniversary of the PizGloria.com website.  Despite only a few additions and changes in recent months I'm pleased that...

When lockdown ended in November it meant that I could finally return to bookstores again.  But on my first visit to Southland Shopping Centr...

After more than 110 days confined to our homes, with nightly 8pm curfews and a 5km radius (and more recently 25km) outside of which we were ...

It's the AFL Grand Final long weekend and normally I'd be in Metung, Gippsland with my wife and sister-in-law on our annual getaway ...

It's not a first.  It's not even a second.  But when I saw this "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" published by Pan Boo...

In 1969 a strong, free-thinking, independent female character appeared on the silver screen and during the course of the film saved the lif...

Sometimes life gets in the way of collecting.  Currently my sister-in-law is in hospital and the last thing I'm thinking about while st...

Here's some more book store visits I made prior to the covid lockdown here in Melbourne.  The first is Helena's Curiosity Shop in Be...

I'm catching up on book store visits I didn't get around to posting earlier this year, and this week it's Abra Card Abra Roycr...

Back in November last year I visited Alice's Bookshop in Carlton North with my wife.  To my dismay the building was up for auction and ...