Literary travel, bookstores, trains, notebooks, and the stories cities leave behind
Booked & Boarded
A recurring literary travel series about books, transit, cafés, bookstores, and the quiet observations collected along the way. Part city diary, part reading journal, Booked & Boarded explores what it feels like to move slowly through a place.
Literary Guides
Thoughtful literary travel guides exploring through bookstores, cafés, neighbourhood walks, hidden corners, and slow itineraries for readers, writers, and curious travellers.
Literary Travel
A collection of essays, reflections, and destination stories exploring the spaces where books and travel intersect. From hidden bookstores and literary cities to notebooks filled on trains and afternoons spent reading in unfamiliar cafés, these pieces focus on the emotional texture of place rather than sightseeing alone.
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Inside Perth’s Best Independent Bookshops
For a city often defined by distance, Perth has an unusually rich bookshop culture. Independent bookstores are scattered across the metropolitan area rather than concentrated in a single precinct. They occupy old shopfronts in Fremantle, suburban high streets in Maylands…
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3 Days in Perth for Readers, Walkers and Slow Travellers
Perth is a city of long walks, ferry crossings and unplanned detours. Start in Fremantle among limestone streets and independent bookshops. Spend a day cycling around Rottnest Island, stopping whenever the water looks too inviting to ignore. Finish in Perth…
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Booked & Boarded: Perth — The Waterways of Home
The bell above the door at New Edition Bookshop sounded exactly as I remembered. Outside, Fremantle was already warming into another bright afternoon. Norfolk pines stood against a cloudless sky and a sea breeze drifted inland from the harbour, carrying…
