World-best classical guitarist to make Melbourne debut at Poets & Thieves

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It gives us great pleasure here at Poets & Thieves to announce that the Brisbane-based guitarist Sir Adrian G. Roll (BMus Hons.), 23, will be performing sporadically from this Thursday the 26th of June until Sunday the 29th of June during business hours - 10am until 5pm.

Adrian is an experienced performer whose delicate musicality and rugged good looks have set tongues wagging during performances in places as diverse as Newcastle, Darwin, Brisbane and Bundaberg. His repertoire is as wide-ranging as his haircut and includes pieces by Sor, Rodrigo, Albeniaz, Granados, J. S. Bach and others. Under the tutelage of Isolde Schauppe at the University of Queensland, Adrian has honed these pieces into an astonishing display of technical dexterity, musicality and performance which will no doubt add a dose of class to the goings-on here at Poets & Thieves Quality Secondhand Books.

Nathan.

New books

Thanks very much to Wendy who so kindly brought some new books in for our store. Among them are:

• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen and
• The Mentor by Sebastian Stuart

All have been well looked after, are in superb condition, and are looking for new readers and new homes.

In other news, we have a bunch of $3 copies of Hamlet just waiting to fly off the shelf - all are in very good condition.

We're also scouting around for certain authors, so if you have any of the following in your collection, please bring them around:

• David Mitchell (anything except Black Swan Green)
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Ian McEwan
• Rimbaud
• Martha Gellhorn
• Harold Lamb
• Anthony Burgess
• Dante

Also, we have a local gentleman on the prowl for some good art books to copy from. Are there any out there?

Vincent Van Gogh's Recommendation - 20 June, 2008

"How dare thou rouse me from my syphilitic hallucinations! I suppose you want another book recommendation, do you? Well, let me see what I can conjure up for you. Has anyone seen that scoundrel Gaugin, by the by? And where is my razor? Not for my ear, you roustabout - for my beard.

"Well if it's a book you want I must recommend Dubliners by James Joyce. It was Bloomsday not so long ago and I had some of that foul-tasting swill they call Guinness in honour of that interminable Irishman and his - what did Virginia call it - his cloacal obsession. Dubliners is a more concise portrayal of Joyce's city and is rife with that "scrupulous mean-ness" he liked to bandy about before he went off the deep end with Finnegans Wake, which I assume to be some great literary hoax and about as funny as a hatful of scorpions.

"Now, will you leave me alone? I have business to attend to in the troposphere."

Get your dose of dialectical materialism and dictatorial mannerisms here at Poets & Thieves!

Comrades,

We're pleased to announce yet another glorious upgrade to our World-Best facilities:

THE LITTLE COMMUNISTS' CORNER

Featuring such works as Mao's Little Red Book, Stalin's On the Opposition (everyone), Lenin's Socialism and War and Marx's succinctly-titled Preface and Introduction to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. All the above are published in Moscow or Peking, and, true to communism's long-lasting impact in the globalised world, we're flogging these books off for profit.

The Little Communists' Corner - Be there, or Tiananmen Square.

New additions + Swingin' golf section

Be-still your beating hearts. Poets & Thieves Quality Secondhand Books' rabidly-expanding collection puts the competition to shame. We're fresh out of Shantaram, though, which sorely disappointed a young lady today. If you have it in your collection and would like to see it in ours, please bring it round. We pay great rates for your great books although we probably have enough Janet Evanovich for the time being - thank you anyway to those who have already tried.

Thanks to a thoughtful local, we have 40 quality new additions. Among them are:

• Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin
• The most popular Booker Prize winner ever, Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
• On Chesil Beach by the ever-reliable Ian McEwan and,
• The explicit Kate Holden memoir, In My Skin.

Thanks to all those who've bought books, and we encourage you to come back for more.

Golf afficionados will be pleased by the opening of our all-new golf section. Whether it be tips on how to improve your swing, or any other tip that might somehow apply to the game, you're bound to score a hole-in-one at Poets & Thieves.

Our address again?

1 Victoria Avenue, Albert Park.

Emails to poetsandthieves@yahoo.com (no .au)

Searchable ABE Books Database

Hello folks. Now that we're online with ABE it's become easier to search our stock for a book or simply to browse through and place an order. Find the database here, listed alphabetically:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sortby=5&vci=53399566

Happy hunting!

Online sales

Poets & Thieves have sucessfully recorded their first online sales!!
You can browse our fine selection of books through http://www.abebooks.com/.
Simply place your order via that service and we'll post the book out to you asap.
Although you will of course miss the opportunity to enjoy the cosy ambience of our little shop and the scintillating conversation of the presiding bookseller.