Shop Opening Hours:
Monday-Friday: 9am - 5pm
Saturday: 9am - 12noon
(Australian Central Standard Time)

Closed all national and local public holidays
including Easter Saturday and Adelaide Cup

Phone: (08) 8344 6457
Orders to: [email protected]

Street Address:
30 Smith St Walkerville South Australia 5081
Mailing Address:
PO Box 1 Collinswood South Australia 5081

John Nicholson is an award-winning author with a passion for the built and natural environment. He originally trained as an architect, and has built his own environment-friendly home in the Australian bush. He relishes the detailed research that goes into his books. He is renowned for his attractive and accurate illustration. Many of his books have been shortlisted in the CBC Awards and four of them, Animal Architects, A Home among the Gum Trees, The First Fleet and Fishing for Islands have won the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books.

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Individual titles stock status is updated three times a week so reports are normally accurate.

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Vashti Farrer has lived with all sorts of pets—cats, dogs, parrots, budgerigars, axolotyls, a tortoise, fish, rabbits, guines pigs and even a rat! Vashti has written stories for adults and children, as well as plays, humour, fantasy, historical fiction, occasional verse and articles. She is the author of Ned’s Kang-u-roo (Takeaways), published by Lothian in 1997. She lives in Paddington, NSW.

John Nicholson is an award-winning author with a passion for the built and natural environment. He originally trained as an architect, and has built his own environment-friendly home in the Australian bush. He relishes the detailed research that goes into his books. He is renowned for his attractive and accurate illustration. Many of his books have been shortlisted in the CBC Awards and four of them, Animal Architects, A Home among the Gum Trees, The First Fleet and Fishing for Islands have won the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books.