About Us
Smiths Alternative Bookshop
76 Alinga Street (in the Melbourne Building)
Canberra City 2601 (opposite the Canberra City Post Office)
ABN 96 113 993 543
Phone: +61 (0)2 6247 4459
fax: +61 (0)2 6249 7790
email: books@smithsbooks.com.au
We are a bookshop. If you want to know more click on the links down the side or up the top. Our opening hours are: Mon-Thurs 9.00-5.30, Fri 9.00-7.30, Sat 10.00-4.30, Sun 12.00-4.30 - For emergencies, like a forgotten birthday, anniversary etc, phone after hours 0414 961 073 Fees apply!
And please drop in anytime - we love seeing people in our shop, especially if we are feeling vulnerable and lonely. And can a website ever replace browsing in a bookshop, the feel and the smell of books and the interaction with other people? We all know the answer is maybe.
Smiths Alternative Bookshop is owned by Strolly Pty Ltd which is owned by Peter Strong who in turn is owned by all his life experiences and the experiences of his parents, his siblings, his sons and his daughter, his friends and his teachers. He is also owned by certain books that have affected him more than others, this includes "The Dragons of Eden" and "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan, various Zen Buddhist tomes, "Tortilla Flat" by Steinbeck, "The Lord of the Rings" by Tolkien, "The Book of Five Rings" by Miyamoto Musashi, and other books.
Please feel free to send us an email or ring us anytime with suggestions and ideas.
We use Bendigo Bank for our EFTPOS activities and for all our banking needs. Half the profits they make from this shop (and everybody else) goes back into the local community - which suits us just fine.
We also use Australian Ethical Investments (AEI) as our preferred super fund because they not only invest ethically but they also invest wisely and seem to us as being clever.
(Statement of potential conflict of interest - Peter Strong is currently the Chairman of the Tuggeranong Valley Financial Services which manages the Bendigo Community Banks at Calwell and Wanniassa - BUT he is not a mindless capitalist he is, in his opinion, a mindful capitalist - he also believes that the term 'conflict of interest, whilst important, can be misleading because - can you have a conflict without interest? Or an interest without conflict? Please discuss this issue among yourselves.)
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Our opening hours are:
Mon-Thurs 9.00-5.30
Fri 9.00-7.30
Sat 10.00-4.30
Sun 12.00-4.30
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