Livejournal user bookrealm just posted some great news on the brisneyland LJ community.

Famous fantasy/comedy author Terry Pratchett will speak about his books for children next Wednesday. It will be on at 3.30 pm next Wednesday, February 14th, at the Great Hall at Brisbane Boys’ Grammar School, 24 Gregory Tce, Spring Hill.

You can browse Terry Pratchett’s books here at Amazon.com I’ve already booked my ticket. To book yours, ring Riverbend Books on 3899 8555.

Above picture of Terry Pratchett can be seen if you click here - photo by flickr user Jutta Degener.

Click here to see the exact location of Brisbane Grammar School.

Click here to see the list of buses that go to BGS.
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Archives Fine Books is on Charlotte St, Brisbane City, near the corner of George St (click here to see the exact location).

I heard about Archives when I first visited Brisbane in 1998 - it’s a huge bookshop that has over a million books on site. When I moved in 2002 I wanted to study military history, so I poked around and found all three volumes of JFC Fuller’s Military History of the Western World there - and I was hooked.

(The English edition is called The Decisive Battles of the Western World and their Influence upon History)

Wes at the I Love Brisbane blog also has a picture of the outside of the building, featuring the stonework saying, oddly “John Mills Himself”.
Read more to see more pictures of Archives Fine Books. You can click on any of the photos to see where they are stored on flickr, so you can download them to use, see them in a slideshow or see different sizes.
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