Spencer & Murphy Booksellers

31/05/2026

Visitors Roslyn and Lyn, two sisters, called in over the weekend. They said they had checked out Spencer and Murphy’s web page and found a book listed - “The Carillon Theatrical Society”which is a book about the Bathurst, NSW theatre company.

I found the book in my theatre section (despite it not being listed on my website). I’m not sure whose webpage they were looking at but it wasn’t mine.

Never mind, the ladies just wanted to show me their photo was in the book, performing in the theatre when they were young. The book’s still here 😊

25/05/2026

24/05/2026

Spencer and Murphy Booksellers are closed today for medical appointment. Please note I would rather be in the bookshop than at the doctors

22/05/2026

Continuing my Australian theme on Spencer and Murphy’s blackboard

21/05/2026

Here is some trivia for you. I had read about where Ian Fleming found the name for his character 007, James Bond.
Amongst my bird books is one by James Bond so I thought I would share the story with you.

Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that "It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born".

20/05/2026

Continuing my Australian theme on the Spencer and Murphy Booksellers blackboard

18/05/2026

Owning a bookshop. Just when you have a plan to tidy, dust and organise every shelf in the bookshop and film it for FB you acquire a huge collection of bird books.

16/05/2026

An Australian theme happening on Spencer & Murphy’s blackboard today.
I rather liked the saying- feel free to apply it to whomever you think deserves it.