Category Archives: book sale

The haul

The Save the Children booksale is on at the moment. It goes until Wednesday, if you want to pick up some bargains. Like last year, we went three times. The picture above shows part of the huge crowd that waited patiently to get into the hall where the books were. We turned up a little [...]

Save the Children Booksale 2010

The following is a public service announcement for Perthans. Details of the 2010 Save the Children Booksale: Sale commences on Friday 20th August at 5:00pm. Venue is the Undercroft of Winthrop Hall (below the Clock Tower) at UWA, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley. Friday 5:00 – 9:00pm Saturday* 6:00am – 5:00pm Sunday 8:00am – 5pm Monday [...]

Because you can never have too many books

Stopped in at the South of the River Save the Children Booksale on Thursday night. We weren’t there for long but I still managed to pick up 33 books. The picture shows 29 of them. Finds: Four of Doris Lessing‘s Children of Violence series. At 50 cents each they were a bargain. The paperbacks aren’t [...]