The creme de la creme of Perth’s bikie community, a smattering of pollies past & present, an array of veteran journos and Personalities mixed with bemused Elizabeth’s customers while sipping on plastic glassed vino…  You can buy the book and get Avon Lovell to dedicate it to your favourite neighbourhood copper.At an outback campfire...
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(From a customer’s blog). Elizabeth’s Bookshop is open until late every night of the week.
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While we are awaiting handover of the “Old King Street” shop on 1st April, “New King Street” next to Dendy Cinema and the IGA Supermarket is already beginning to look like a proper Elizabeth’s Bookshop. New stock is flowing in and being sorted and shelved. We are waiting for DA approval to alter the frontage...
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Elizabeth’s Bookshop Sign One of the always changing pithy quotes outside one of my favourite secondhand bookstores.  (Dog pee an added extra.) http://www.flickr.com/photos/other_andrew/ Elizabeth’s Bookshop staff delight in using the graffiti board that sits outside each of the shops for their favourite quote of the day. Sometimes left field, sometimes incomprehensible, but always worth a...
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The woman behind one of WA's most successful small businesses speaks publicly for the first time how she turned $700 into the multi-million-dollar Elizabeth's Bookshops empire. Elizabeth Schmitz has put her much-loved luxury Cliff Street home in Fremantle up for sale... Retirement is not on the horizon for Mrs Schmitz, who plans to start an exclusive...
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The bookshop team dressed up and partied at Cliff Street! Having a Staff Christmas Party when the shops are are buzzing at 150% in the lead up to Christmas is always a tricky exercise, but the Management and Staff met the challenge and drinks and nibbles were enjoyed by all.
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Adrift in history … a detail of Napoleon on Horseback at the St Bernard Pass by Jacques-Louis David. Photograph: Archivo Iconografico Is history as good as finished? (From ‘The Guardian’) Our school system seems to think so. Often it seems that the teaching of history is treated by the educational establishment as the rough...
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