Somewhat a piece of ephemera Mother Seigel's Home Companion is a booklet of “Household, toilet & first aid hints - things a mouther should know” so the cover claims.
Presented below is the whole booklet.
Catalogue
This blog was current when it was written in 2017, however we have since closed our physical location. For more information see here.
Aside from this website and email Book Browser does not have any computer presence. Especially not within our shop.
It is a wholly analogue experience, as is fitting for a second hand bookshop.
We do not have a computer-searchable catalogue, however if you can tell us the genre, subject or a certain identifying feature of the book you’re looking for we can direct you to where you’re most likely to find the book or subject you’re looking for.
Book Browser covers every subject, both fiction and non-fiction.
There is a mix of layouts and organisation is several areas, based on the subject matter.
Fiction:
In the fiction section there are two layouts, depending whether the section is suitably large on not.
Sorted by author’s last name: Australian novels & literature; Humour; Large hardback fiction; Large paperback fiction; Literature; Small paperback fiction; Government, war and military fiction; Crime; Horror; Animal stories (also included in this section is non-fiction Animal stories); Science fiction and fantasy.
In most of these sections there will also be sections for particularly prolific authors, usually organised at the end of a section or the bottom of the shelf.
Sections devoted to subjects but not ordered further: Historical fiction; King Arthur; Robin Hood; British Royalty Fiction; Fiction set in Ireland, Scotland and Wales; Sea Stories; Westerns; Novelisations of Movies or TV Tie-In Books; Romance & Erotic fiction.
Non-Fiction:
All non-fiction, aside from Biographies are ordered by subject only, there are a few exceptions which are ordered by title.
Biographies are broken down to Australian biographies, TV & Movie Stars biographies and (general) Biographies, ordered by author / subject of the biography (by last name).
Non-fiction is ordered in a human understandable layout with everything grouped together based on genre or subject. A few large sections are broken down further by title of book.
All the books on countries are within a section together and are ordered together.
Australia has its own section with each state having a shelf or in the case of Victoria and New South Wales a few shelves, with a dedicated shelves for ‘The Snowy’ and ‘The Murray’. Victoria is broken down into Victoria, Melbourne and Melbourne Institutions & Landmarks.
The Australia section also has sections for ‘The Outback’, ‘Historic Australia’, ‘Australian National Parks’ and a general ‘Australia’ section.
All these sections, beyond being ordered into these sections and shelves are unsorted.
The Australia section also has several shelves which contain books about Australia as a genre of non-fiction. These are ordered by title.
Australia is further broken down into books ordered by title.
World War II is also broken down into books by title.
