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Sappho Books Cafe & Wine Bar

Have tea in the sci-fi section at this long-loved bookstore cafe.
By Madeleine Watts
August 24, 2014
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By Madeleine Watts
August 24, 2014
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Sappho's is a cafe and wine bar as well as a secondhand bookshop, and it has the loyal custom of many of the local Sydney University students. The little shop has a huge range of books packed into every shelf, ranging in subject matter, and it has been hosting regular poetry nights for the last couple of years.

You're always certain to find what you're looking for, and often in really nice editions: some of the copies from the 50s and 60s are so well kept you'll want to frame them. You're welcome to sit with a book and a glass of wine, or a jug of sangria, until the wee hours under the shade of the jasmine and banana trees.

Image: Daniel Boud/Destination NSW. 

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