{"product_id":"bookshop-in-wartime","title":"A Bookshop in Wartime","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublisher's description:\u003cbr\u003eIn April 1938 a small bookshop opened for business in Canberra, at a time when Australia’s federal capital was still a country town and Burley Griffin’s vision for its future had been defeated by years of war, depression and political indifference.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn an era which was a golden age for books and booksellers, the bookshop, under its owner and manager Verity Hewitt, became a meeting place for booklovers as well as an art gallery and a library. Scientists, artists, diplomats, servicemen and women, public servants, writers, adventurers and immigrants all visited the shop during the war years.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe bookshop was an important part of the city’s social and cultural history. It witnessed Canberra’s slow change, under the pressures of war, from a rural backwater to a reluctant and still unformed capital city.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Jenny Horsfield\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFormat:Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePages: 217\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePublished: 1 November 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781922454126\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Shop at Old Parliament House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52942437613879,"sku":"9781922454126","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/9559\/0967\/files\/File-7521_medium_fb77127e-9747-4a97-bac9-c0253970ddd3.png?v=1788397295","url":"https:\/\/shop.moadoph.gov.au\/products\/bookshop-in-wartime","provider":"The Shop at Old Parliament House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}