Since 1968. Welcome to Abbey's Bookshop Australia Online - Where ideas grow. Abbey's Bookshop abbeys.com.au is an iconic Australian-owned, independent bookstore in Sydney's CBD (131 York Street) - an Aladdin's cave for readers - and known for premium service and specialisations in History, Science, Crime, Fiction, Children's books, Fantasy & Language books. Our customers are knowledge seekers and lifelong learners. Shipping Australia-wide & international. (02) 9264 3111 • info@abbeys.com.au • SHOP HOURS
We've had a cracker of a year in 2023 with some remarkable releases. Here are what our customers were choosing to read...
131 York Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia
In the spirit of reconciliation, Abbey's Bookshop acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
To the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation - the traditional custodians of this place we now call Sydney - we acknowledge and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.
We've added two new pages to our suite of New Releases pages. The new pages contain the FULL LISTS of our monthly new releases - a page for Abbey's and one for GALAXY (science fiction & fantasy) - so you can scroll the entire list of new releases on one page. If you only want to see what is in stock now, use the toggle at the top of the list.
You'll be amazed at what catches your eye, so pour yourself a cuppa and go for a pleasant scroll...
NEW RELEASES - THE FULL LIST: ABBEY'S
NEW RELEASES - THE FULL LIST: GALAXY
Bad Cop
Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics:...
Paperback
$27.99
In Stock 😊
The Art and Soul of Dune
Part Two
Hardback
$99.99
In Stock 😊
What Happened to Nina?
Paperback
$34.99
In Stock 😊
Tilda Is Visible
Paperback
$34.99
In Stock 😊
Mine is the Kingdom
The Rise and Fall of Brian Houston...
Paperback
$34.99
In Stock 😊
The Sunlit Man
A Stormlight Archive Companion Novel...
Paperback
$32.99
In Stock 😊
Appreciation
Paperback
$34.99
In Stock 😊
The Secret Hours
Paperback
$22.99
In Stock 😊
Empire of the Damned
#2 Empire of the Vampire
Paperback
$35.99
In Stock 😊
The Shortest History of Economics
The Powerful Story of Economic Ideas...
Paperback
$26.99
In Stock 😊
The Hunter
Paperback
$34.99
In Stock 😊
Heresy
Jesus Christ and the Other Sons...
Paperback
$36.99
In Stock 😊
NEW RELEASES
- ABBEY'S FULL LIST
- GALAXY FULL LIST
- Abbey's Double Rewards
- Art Architecture Design
- Biography - Australian
- Biography - General
- Children & Teen Books
- Crime Fiction - Modern
- Crime Fiction - Cosy
- Crime Fiction - Historical
- Crime Books - True
- Economics & Business
- Fiction - Australian
- Fiction - General
- Fiction - Historical
- Food Garden Home
- Foreign Languages & ESL
It has long been tradition (since 1968) that no music is played in Abbey's Bookshop. Not because we don't like music, but simply because Eve and Ron Abbey were very fond of the respite from the outside world and contemplation that come with browsing in our bookshop.
If, however, you were wanting to listen to something while browsing and wanting a change from your usual, then we've compiled a few playlists that, like our curation of books, are sprinkled with the less familiar and swerve into laneways less-travelled.
AUSPOST: EXPRESS POST: AusPost no longer guarantee delivery 'Next Business Day' however the Express Post service continues to be our fastest postal delivery option for our customers and we'll continue to prioritise these deliveries. They just may not be delivered next business day every time.
Abbey's Bookshop at 131 York Street (next to QVB) is an Aladdin's cave for readers and Sydney's much-loved indie bookshop since 1968 ~ Where ideas grow.
It was 1968 when Eve & Ron Abbey founded Abbey's. From that time on we've curated a distinctive collection.
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Abbey's Bookshop at 131 York Street has become an institution among readers and knowledge seekers looking for those hard to find books. Abbey's remains a favourite of many of Australia's academics and authors, politicians and lawyers.
...history, science, crime fiction or literature. Our customers often express their surprise and delight at finding books they were unaware of, whether from smaller publishers or sourced from overseas.
...Thousands of fantasy and science fiction books in our GALAXY Bookshop, plus an enormous range of fiction in other languages within our Language Book Centre.
To read more about our history, click: FORTY MEMORIES. This is the book we published to celebrate our 40th birthday.