Gertrude & Alice Cafe Bookstore

A second-hand and new bookshop and cafe on Hall Street, a block from Bondi Beach, opened in 2001 by Jane Turner and the writer Katerina Cosgrove and now run by Turner with her children Kate and Jordan. It takes its name and its salon idea from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas: some 18,000 books layered over the walls, floors and tables, a kitchen doing breakfast and lunch, a chai that draws regulars from across Sydney, and an after-hours literary salon hosting book clubs and author nights.