All the Bookshop’s titles are shelved by subject area for easy searching. Please refer to the list below to discover the range of subject areas you can search by to find a specific title or a general area of interest. Within large subject areas like Fiction, books are ordered alphabetically by using the author’s surname. While books in the Biography section are arranged by the subject person’s name; not the author’s.
Sometimes you may also need to look in two areas for the same item. For example art magazines may be located with the Art books or in the Magazine section. And you might find Marx in philosophy and/or world politics; or World War I histories in History/Military History and Australiana. Of particular note are Fantasy and Science Fiction books which can be found in their eponymous area as well as on clearly marked shelves in the Teens and Young Adult Fiction area.
Please always feel welcome to ask for help from the volunteer desk staff if you are having trouble locating a particular book or subject area. This list is currently being updated so please get in touch if you have any queries.
[Our current favourite subject heading is ‘Crime, Australian true (non-fiction) excluding bushrangers’ …. Seems a bit rude to exclude the bushrangers.]
A
Accounting
Agriculture
Analysis & Criticism (Literature)
Anatomy & Physiology
Animals – invertebrates
Animals – vertebrates – not Australian, not Zoology
Anthropology
Antiques
Archaeology
Architecture
Art
Astrology & New – Age materials
Astronomy
Australian Fiction – now integrated into Fiction General
Auditing
Australiana – includes all Australian non-fiction
B
Biography
Biology
Birds, Australian
Birds – excludes Australian
Botany
Business
C
CDs
Chemistry
Children’s Fiction
Children’s Non-Fiction
Children’s Reference
Coins
Comics
Computers
Cookery
Craft – includes magazines and encyclopaedias of craft
Creative writing
Crime / Mystery / Thrillers (fiction)
Crime, true (non-fiction)
Crime, Australian true (non-fiction) excluding bushrangers.
D
DVDs
Dance
DIY
Drama & Theatre
Dictionaries, including foreign language
E
Economics – includes personal money management
Education – excludes home schooling, excludes Maths
Ethics
Etiquette
F
Family – includes practical parenting, from conception
Fashion
Fiction, hard-back (all)
Fiction, large print
Fiction, literary (‘Classics’)
Fiction, paper-back – General
Folklore, Australian
Food, Australian – general histories
Furnishings
G
Games, indoor – includes jigsaw puzzles
Gardening
Geology
Geography
Graphic novels
H
History – excludes Australian
History, Australian
Home schooling – includes practical teaching material, excludes ed. theory – see Education.
Humour
I
Illustrious Illustrators (Children’s)
Indoor games
J
K
L
Languages – including Dictionaries
Law
Legends
Literary fiction (loosely called ‘Classics’)
Logic
M
Magazines – excludes Australian Geographic, National Geographic, Craft
Maps
Marketing
Maths – includes teaching of Maths and Maths text books
Media – film, radio, TV – includes biography of media personalities
Medicine – includes obstetrics & gynaecology
Multi-media – CDs, DVDs,
Music – includes biography, excludes religious song books with music
Myths & Legends
Mystery / Thrillers / Crime (fiction)
N
National Geographic – before 1970 + 2011 – 2018
Nursing
O
Office Management
P
Penguins, early
Pets
Philosophy
Photography
Physics
Plays
Poetry
Programs (of concerts, plays, sporting events, film events, etc) – Upon request.
Psychic phenomena
Psychology
Public speaking
Q
R
Real Estate
Recent Acquisitions
Records, vinyl
Reference – includes atlases, dictionaries, thesauri
Religion – includes hymn & song books with music
Royalty
Science – includes botany, chemistry, physics, zoology
Science, Australian
Self Help – includes yoga, tai chi, aromatherapy, feng shui
Shells
Short Stories
Shorthand & Typing
Sociology
Sport
Stamps
Statistics
T
Technology
Theatre – excludes biographies
Thrillers / Crime / Mystery (fiction)
Transport
Travel – including armchair travel, travel stories
U
V
Veterinary science
W
War
Weddings
Wine
Word use, Australian, recent
Word use & Creative writing – includes History of composition
Z
Zoology
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