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| The perfect gift for any special occasion $10 Gift vouchers $20 Gift vouchers $50 Gift vouchers (* not available in conjunction with any other offer) Saturday, 27 February 12pm - 4pm Kinokuniya is craft heaven in February! Therefll be lots of handmade, stitched and knitted items to see and buy. The NSW Knitters Guild, The Embroiderers' Guild NSW and Hand Weavers and Spinners Guild of NSW will be displaying their talents as well as Aranzi Aronzo who are on their Aranzi Caravan world tour. Slowly making their way to all Kinokuniyas around the world, they will set up a special exhibition in our art gallery, displaying their ecute, strange, cool, silly, a little bit horrible, stupid and comfortable Aranzi Aronzo' products.       Kinokuniya Sydney bookstore stocks an extensive range of craft books from Japan. Come in and explore our books on embroidery, pattern making, felt cakes and mascots, arigurumi, nuigurumi, beading and more! Bunka Publishing Bureau Craft Book List     Elizabeth Kostova in conversation with Sarah Minns, Deputy Editor of Good Reading Magazine Elizabeth Kostova will talk about her new book, The Swan Thieves. About the book: When Robert Oliver, a renowned painter, attacks a famous canvas in the National Gallery of Art, psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe is intrigued and takes him on as a patient. But the seemingly random act of violence is a mere scratch on the surface of something altogether more mysteriousc The marriage of Kate and Robert Oliver seems at first to be a good match. Her inwardness and his volatility are both tempered by the harmony of an easy domesticity. But this happiness is not to last. It becomes apparent to Kate that something intense and abstract has taken hold of Robert and it is not long before this thing occupies his every thought. At first she thinks it is another woman. But when she explores his attic studio where he paints - day and night - she is confronted by an impossible rival: the image of an unknown woman painted over and over and over again. Told through the narratives of the psychiatrist and each of the women in Robert Oliver's life, The Swan Thieves is a fascinating story about the nature of obsession as seen from the outside. While each narrator attempts to identify the mysterious woman and her even more mysterious powers, we are taken on a journey that will lead from East Coast America to the shores of Normandy; from the late twentieth century back to the nineteenth. Date: Thursday, 4 March at 6:30pm Venue: Attic Bar, The ArtHouse Hotel (limited seating) Tickets: $7 for Kinokuniya Card Members (please show your current Kinokuniya Card) or $10 for non-members Tickets sold at Kinokuniya. Please enquire at the cashier counter.     Please click here to download an application form We would like to say a huge thank you to all our customers who said "no thanks to a plastic bag". For each customer that refused a plastic bag, Kinokuniya donated the cost of that bag to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Between September 2008 and September 2009, we raised $2300. The money donated will help the project with literacy resources in remote Indigenous communities.  Who are we? Kinokuniya Sydney offers the largest range of books with over 300,000 titles in English, Japanese, Chinese, French and German. Located in the heart of Sydney CBD, Kinokuniya also stocks an extensive collection of Manga, graphic novels, art and design books, cookbooks, travel books and children's literature. Our Chinese books and magazines are sourced from both Taiwan and mainland China and we have a Japanese magazine subscription service. Kinokuniya offers the experience of a true haven in the city. Our spacious and tranquil environment, abundance of natural light and friendly informative staff make Kinokuniya a unique bookstore. K's Cafe at Kinokuniya offers customers a space in which to relax and take in the ambience of the store. Kinokuniya also features an in-store Art Gallery which exhibits works from ambitious, creative, and talented artists to help them develop their careers. New exhibitions are shown every two weeks. We also have a sales office located in the bookstore (within the art and design section) to service business and academic institutions. Come and visit us today!  History The first Kinokuniya store opened in January 1927 by former president Moichi Tanabe. At that time it had 5 employees and was located in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo (a thriving shopping area that surrounds a major train terminal) in a two-story wooden building with a floor space of 125m2 (1,349sq.ft.) and an art gallery on the 2nd floor. The store burnt down in May 1945 during an air raid, but later re-opened in December 1945 and was incorporated in 1946. Over the next few years, sale offices opened around Japan, including Osaka, Kyoto and Sapporo. In 1964, headquarters was established in Shinjuku (the current Shinjuku Main Store Building). The bookstore was nine stories and had two underground floors. Kinokuniya continued to aggressively develop large-scale bookstores in major Japanese cities based on the corporate philosophy of providing customers with a wide variety of books and magazines. Kinokuniya believe that bookstores should function as centers for the promotion of culture and the arts and not merely as outlets for selling books. Accordingly, theaters and an art gallery are incorporated inside the bookstores. The Shinjuku store boasts two theatres that aspire to promote the spirit of the dramatic arts, much like that of New York's Broadway and the Kinokuniya Theatre Awards was established in 1966 to promote the development of the dramatic arts. Kinokuniya also launched a publishing department because we believed it is our mission not only to provide customers with existing information and cultural works, but also to be actively engaged in the creative process. Ever since we published our first books in 1955, we have consistently made an effort to print high-quality works that meet the demands of the modern age. In total, Kinokuniya has now published over 1,000 titles (including 500 translations) spanning fields as diverse as Western literary criticism, anthropology, mathematics, and physics. We are proud to say that our publications have been highly acclaimed in Japan and abroad and have received numerous prestigious awards. The first overseas bookstore opened in San Francisco in 1969 with the twin goals of providing Japanese living abroad with information from home as quickly as possible and introducing Japanese tradition and culture to the local community. Several other bookstores have since opened in the United States, including major stores in Los Angeles and New York. Kinokuniya ventured into the Asia-Pacific market when it opened its first store in Singapore (Liang Court Store) in 1983. This would serve as a base for developing additional Asian outlets and store openings soon followed in Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. In 1996, Kinokuniya launched the first outlet in Australia, located in Sydney's Neutral Bay. This was later re-located to its present day location on Level 2, TGV on George Street. Kinokuniya is the largest bookstore chain in Japan with over 80 stores worldwide. Our Exchange/Refund Policy Please choose carefully as we do not give refunds if you simply change your mind or make a wrong decision. We will gladly exchange or issue a credit voucher within 14 days of purchase. All goods must be in original condition including shrink wrap. Where goods are faulty; have been wrongly described; are different from a sample shown to you or do not do what they are supposed to, you can choose between a refund, exchange or credit voucher. Please note: * Antiquarian books are second-hand; as such they can not be refunded if they are faulty. Please check carefully when purchasing. * Due to copyright laws, audio visual products cannot be exchanged unless faulty. Please always retain your receipt for proof of purchase. Privacy Statement Kinokuniya Bookstores of Australia is firmly committed to protecting your privacy. Without your consent we will not use your personal information to send you promotional materials you have not requested nor will we release it to any others. Personal information about our customers, including your name, address, telephone number and other personal details will be handled appropriately, and you may contact us at any time to request details about what information we hold, or to request it to be changed or deleted. Kinokuniya Bookstores of Australia: * Will only collect the personal information about a customer that we need to do business with. This will usually be a name, address, contact telephone number, e-mail address and purchasing information (for example the items being purchased or placed as a special order); * Does not sell or rent personal information about our customers, including names, addresses and telephone numbers, to any outside person or organisation; *Will only ever use a customer's personal information for Kinokuniya Bookstores of Australia's marketing purposes if we have first requested and received your permission to do so. Automatic Collection of Information; Cookies and IP Addresses (Kinokuniya Bookstores of Australia website only): Every computer on the Internet is identified by a unique number called an IP address. Kinokuniya Bookstores of Australia may record the IP address used when making an order for security purposes. Otherwise, Kinokuniya Bookstores of Australia only uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Site. Kinokuniya Bookstores of Australia does not use cookies to gain any information. Disclosure of personal information: We will use and disclose your personal information for the primary purposes of our business as a retailer to facilitate your purchase or in providing the service you have requested, where you consent to such disclosure, or where such disclosure is permitted by the Privacy Act. The personal information you provide will not be disclosed to any organisation, except: * Australia Post or a courier company contracted to effect delivery of your purchase. * Our accountants if required in the course of their audit procedures. * As required or authorised by law. |
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