Gleebooks

Sydney's leading independent bookshop, on Glebe Point Road by the University of Sydney, opened in 1975 and owned by Roger Mackell and David Gaunt since 1978. It runs from a heritage landmark, once an 1890s general store and later a boxing gym, reopened in 2024 after a long renovation with a lift, an events space and a cafe-bar. Gleebooks is known for deep new and secondhand stock, its review journal The Gleaner, and an author-talks program so sought-after that tickets have been scalped. It is the Sydney Writers' Festival stockist, with branches in Dulwich Hill and Blackheath.