LANE BOOKSHOP

For many people, The Lane is not only a favourite bookshop, it is a favourite place to be. And it is a place for being rather than doing. In a busy, compulsive world The Lane provides a refuge for the mind. Here, thought and creativity are recognized as friends. It strikes one that between the staff and those that come into the bookshop, there is a sustained and intelligent conversation about the amazing landscape of the imagination that is literature.
 
A chain of bookshops claimed that 'We take the mystery out of buying books' It is precisely because The Lane restores, nurtures and celebrates this mystery that one is drawn back in through the doorway, down the steps, into its elegant and welcoming world of ideas. One knows when one is back, that one is with people who, with clarity and passion, quite simply love the written word."

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"Predictions are best made in hindsight. The continuing success of The Lane Bookshop illustrates the wisdom of that old adage. This month (September 2005) The Lane Bookshop celebrates its 25th anniversary, confounding the doomsayers who had predicted that on-line vendors like Amazon would sweep all before them like some book-vending tsunami.

Of course, the more astute have always appreciated that a bookshop like The Lane offers everything that an on-line service cannot – sound knowledgeable advice, personal assistance, the opportunity to wile away comfortable hours in leisurely browsing, and always the prospect of unearthing the unexpected treasure.

I chanced upon The Lane early on and, optimism having triumphed over experience, I have raised not one but two families on the ritual of the weekly pilgrimage to The Lane. Successive generations of children have at first resisted, then acquiesced and soon insisted upon that ritual. That, often noisy, process has been encouraged by the grace and charm with which it has been endured by all at The Lane, a grace and charm that epitomises The Lane.

And could you depend upon an on-line service to deny to a spouse or child looking for reassurance about some doubtful shoe or toy purchase, all knowledge of my whereabouts as I skulked in a corner with a book? Truly, a wonderful refuge for any lover of books. Congratulations to the Lane on its 25th birthday. Long may it continue."

A Customer

Forthcoming Author Event_

Tim Winton will talk about his writing and introduce his new book Breath on Wednesday May 7 at 7.30pm at Centre for Ethics Christ Church Grammar School Chapel Tickets $10 Students $5 available from The Lane Bookshop (08-9384-4423) (Parking available on oval)

(Proceeds of ticket sales go to CARAD)

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The Lane Bookshop is at 52c Old Theatre Lane, Claremont, Western Australia. The Bookshop is situated in an arcade off Bay View Terrace, at the Stirling Highway end. 

Telephone: 08-9384-4423   Fax: 08-9385-3822

Email: orders@lanebook.com.au

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(updated April 14, 2008

 

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