Berkelouw Books Newtown Closing Down (with a Sale)

The long-standing and much-loved Newtown branch of Berkelouw Books is set to close in the week commencing September 8. Despite being currently advertised as a "relocation" on the Berkelouw website, the branch is closing down permanently with no set relocation destination at this point in time.

Berkelouw Newtown has been a familiar face on the inner-west literary block for many years and even though it survived the Great Gentrification of King Street and Surrounds in the late-noughties, the bookstore has failed to make the cut this financial year and will be shut by early September.

As hard as this news is to swallow for bibliophiles everywhere, you will have a chance to pay your final respects at the 'relocation sale', beginning on Saturday, August 17, where you can find up to 50 percent off all new and secondhand books, stationery and gifts. As the store boasts a collection of over 50,000 used and rare books, the sale is a delicious invitation to broaden your belletristic horizons.

While the vindictive among us may want to draw a correlation between this unfortunate termination and the sudden meiosis of frozen yoghurt franchises in Newtown recently, it may be comforting to take respite in the ongoing resilience of Gould's, Elizabeth's and Better Read Than Dead. Lest we forget.