About Us

We're a social enterprise bookshop based in the Blue Mountains, Dharug & Gundungurra country, Sydney, Australia.

A huuuuuge thanks to our friend Susanna Rossi for putting together the video above about how and why we started a social enterprise bookshop supporting local refugee charities. You can also read her fantastic article here.

Run by avid readers and Echo the bookshop dog (our quality control expert), with the vital support of a small group of volunteers, we've combined our love of reading with our passion for supporting & advocating on behalf of refugees.

We do this through fundraising and by donating 50% of our profit to charities supporting refugees, including the Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group and Rural Australians for Refugees.

Our name comes from two major characters (Rosemary Waterlow & Philip Ravelston) in the George Orwell novel "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", both of whom try their best to support an aspiring poet.