Collecting Piz Gloria

I'm currently relaxing with a beer while waiting for friends at the Transport Bar at Fed Square in the City.   Prior to arriving here I ...

Last November, Orion Books republished John Gardner's second James Bond novel "For Special Services" almost 40 years after it ...

Last May I received a Lego James Bond Aston Martin DB5 as a birthday gift from some very generous friends.  I started construction in June ...

Back in the 1980's my family used to spend two weeks every Summer camping at Wilsons Promontory National Park found at the southern-most...

After purchasing the copy of "Dr. No" mentioned in my previous post  I also noticed another couple of Jonathan Cape hardbacks at r...

A few weeks ago I noticed a nice hardback copy of Ian Fleming's "Dr. No" for sale on eBay.  Printed in the UK by Jonathan Cape...

Yesterday my wife and I visited the Rosebud Vintage Bazaar which is just off Point Nepean Road on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria.  It wa...

The Frankston Book Exchange has long been on my list of second hand book stores to visit.  And today I was finally able to... eventually. On...

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...