If you can’t find what you are looking for on our shelves, we will be very happy to order books – it is one of our specialities.

We have three very well-read and experienced booksellers who all read voraciously and have extensive knowledge of all kinds of reading.

My Dog Bruiser Swallowed a Scooter is a fun rhyming book for children aged 2-7,  about a little boy named Leo and his mischievous dog Bruiser, who gets into a big pickle in the vege patch at the family farm in Maleny. Ideal to read out loud to younger children and a perfect book for new readers. Beautifully illustrated with an Australian farming background.

Karen McKinley worked as a reporter for Channel Nine’s Gold Coast News, the Gold Coast Bulletin and was the communications director for The Punch Group PR agency and publicist for the Somerset Celebration of Literature (Somerset Storyfest). Karen has two teenage daughters and lives between the Gold Coast and a farm at Maleny in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. Her favourite flower is a gardenia and as a kid she would often be found reading Enid Blyton books, roller skating or making up dances with her school friends. Illustrator: Francesca Quatraro have been illustrating for about 20 years. She loves stories and likes to tell them. She has illustrated 20 children’s books and for the past 5 years she has been collaborating with a French publishing house to make postcards. Apart from illustrating for the publishing industry, she also works for private clients. She absolutely loves teaching adults the art of drawing.

Australian Adventure: Breaking the Umbilical Cord is a story about escaping suburban boredom and 9 to 5 monotony, where their only travel involved back and forth trips to work, Darrel Roche and his two companions cut the umbilical cord to their jobs, families, and security to embark on a journey of 24-hour, 7-day-a-week freedom in the era before computers and mobile phones dominated our lives.

Darrel Roche was born in the western suburbs of Sydney. After leading a short expedition in the remote highlands of New Guinea in 1969 at the age of 20, he embarked on an Australian adventure travelling throughout the Aussie Outback. He achieved the Queen’s Badge and Duke of Edinburgh’s Award with Boys’ Brigade Australia, was awarded the Australian Defence Medal for six years’ service in the Australian Army Reserve, spent twelve years working with Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders in the Kimberley deserts of Western Australia, Outback Queensland, and the Torres Strait Islands, and served for four years as a Commonwealth lighthouse keeper on Queensland’s remote islands and headlands. Darrel has a Bachelor of Arts degree with double majors in Ancient History and Studies in Religion and is a founding member of the Toyota Land Cruiser Club of Australia.

Community is important to all of us.

We treasure our place in this jewel of the Sunshine Coast.

We have strong ties to local schools, libraries and clubs, and you will see that we are regularly involved in local events, as well as hosting a multitude of our own book events from the smallest local authors to those of international renown.