Bookshop
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.