About the Samford Bookery
The Samford Bookery is a community based on-line bookstore developed by a Camp Mountain resident with a passion for books and a love of community.
The Samford Bookery offers an efficient on line ordering service with most titles received the next day. We also have gift vouchers, wrapping service and special pricing for bulk orders, schools and other institutions.
The Bookery lists the latest titles including the winners of all the major literary awards such as the Man Booker and the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards: If it’s in print you should be able to find it on our site.
We also have a special love of literature for children with an emphasis on the eight to fourteen year age group and provide a suggestion service for locating satisfying reading for young people.
Features include stunning photography of local places by Camp Mountain photographer Glenn Ellis and regularly updated local author profiles. Browse the suggested book lists or do your own search, register for our regular mail outs or get in touch with local book clubs.
Remember to add ‘The Samford Bookery’ to your favourites list and visit regularly to check for updates, including dates for the opening of ‘The Samford Bookery’ Bookstore.
Please feel free to contact us with suggestions or just to say hello.
About Lucy:
Lucy is a keen member of the community and an active member of the Samford Theatre group, you may have seen her in a few of the local productions including ‘My Fatal Valentine’ and singing and dancing with a red wig on in ‘I have a hunch’. A fan of good coffee she is regularly found leaning on the counter at Sherdélle’s drinking her usual.
| Favourite author: | Doris Lessing |
| Favourite quote: | Kurt Vonnegut – ‘everything was beautiful and nothing hurt; |
| Favourite pastime: | reading, riding my horse and gardening |
| Confession: | Scrabble, online, group games, one on one, speed scrabble – any scrabble |
| Favourite book: | Edward Lear’s ‘Book of Nonsense’ – Limericks, stories & nonsense botany |
‘My favourite book, the most loved, and regularly revisited would have to be my Edward Lear’s ‘Book of Nonsense’. Given to me by my self titled ‘funny old godmother’ Helga when I was eight this was to be the beginning of an obsessive lifelong journey of collecting Edward Lear books and paraphernalia. Pristine jacketed first editions, dog eared, pre loved reprints and treasured prints of his nonsense botany. Edward Lear has developed in me a very soft spot for the humble limerick.’