LEADER 01979nam 2200409 450 001 9910813819903321 005 20220531160544.0 010 $a1-922454-86-9 035 $a(CKB)4940000000599254 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6561699 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6561699 035 $a(OCoLC)1247670047 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000599254 100 $a20220531d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA bookshop in wartime /$fJenny Horsfield 210 1$aNorth Melbourne, Victoria :$cArcadia,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (230 pages) 311 $a1-922454-12-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 8 $aAnnotation.$bIn April 1938 a small bookshop opened for business in Canberra, at a time when Australia's federal capital was still a country town and Burley Griffin's vision for its future had been defeated by years of war, depression and political indifference. In an era which was a golden age for books and booksellers, the bookshop, under its owner and manager Verity Hewitt, became a meeting place for booklovers as well as an art gallery and a library. Scientists, artists, diplomats, servicemen and women, public servants, writers, adventurers and immigrants all visited the shop during the war years. The bookshop was an important part of the city's social and cultural history. It witnessed Canberra's slow change, under the pressures of war, from a rural backwater to a reluctant and still unformed capital city. 606 $aBooksellers and bookselling$zAustralia 615 0$aBooksellers and bookselling 676 $a338.470705730994 700 $aHorsfield$b Jenny$01601267 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813819903321 996 $aA bookshop in wartime$93924801 997 $aUNINA