About Riverbend Books

CONTACT US

Phone: 07 3899 8555

General email: info@riverbendbooks.com.au
School orders: schools@riverbendbooks.com.au
Events: events@riverbendbooks.com.au
Accounts: accounts@riverbendbooks.com.au
Book Clubs: bookclub@riverbendbooks.com.au

Our store address

Riverbend Books
4/77 Oxford St
Bulimba, QLD 4171

Opening Hours: Open MON - FRI 8.30am - 5.30pm | SAT 8.30am - 5.30pm | SUN 9.00am - 5.00pm

Getting to riverbend books

Riverbend is located in lovely Bulimba, a short drive, bus ride or CityCat trip from Brisbane city.

Our street address is 4/77 Oxford Street, Bulimba Queensland 4171 (on the corner with Cambridge Street). There is plenty of street parking.

Bulimba can be reached by CityCat, Cross River Ferry and Brisbane City Council bus. The Translink website has timetable information and a nifty journey planner.

THE RIVERBEND Story

Riverbend Books is a general bookshop which opened its doors in 1998 on the corner of Oxford and Cambridge Streets.

We would like to acknowledge the original owners of this land, and pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging.

Riverbend is proud to be part of this community. The ambience of the shop is warm and friendly, our staff are knoweldgeable and take great pleasure in doing their best to carefully recommend books that readers will enjoy.

Our schools team are exceptional and run book clubs, standing order programs, book fairs and read an enormous number of books to ensure they can offer excellent advice and service to schools.

Our bookclub program is extensive - both online and instore. A fabulous community of readers join us each month to read and discuss the books they are reading. In many ways they are the beating heart of Riverbend.

In 2004 Riverbend launched a project within the local community that was aimed at raising funds to support literacy in remote Indigenous communities where literacy levels are very low. This project has grown enormously since then, becoming a national foundation that does important literacy work in remote communities. You can find out all about the ILF or make a donation here: www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au

Riverbend has won Queensland Independent Bookshop of the Year 9 times and Australian Independent Bookshop of the Year twice. In 2014, the owner Suzy Wilson was recognised in the Australia Day Awards when she won the Queensland Local Hero Award. The annual Johnno Prize was awarded to Suzy in 2015, named after founding QWC Patron David Malouf, and in 2018 Suzy was honoured to be inducted into the Australian Book Industry Hall of Fame as the recipient of the Lloyd O'Neil award, which recognises a significant contribution to the Australian Book Industry.