Independent and family-founded in 1983, this Macquarie Street bookshop holds tens of thousands of new and used titles and folds in a mail-order business whose roots reach to 1953. Sitting in the middle of the central-west farming belt, it stocks the subjects a rural readership actually reaches for, from agriculture, horticulture and natural science to trades and engineering, alongside the fiction, history and children's shelves you would expect. Secondhand finds share the floor with new releases, puzzles and gifts, and the staff still hand-sell the way a good country bookseller should. It ships Australia-wide, but the pleasure is the room itself: a large, browsable store that has outlasted four decades of retail churn on the same street. For a city its size, Dubbo is unusually well served, the kind of independent many larger towns have lost.