A secondhand bookshop in a villa at 201 Ponsonby Road, opposite Prego near Franklin Road, which the shop calls a bookshop and a stage for culture. The shop has six rooms of books, a sunny backyard, and comfy chairs, and it sells everything from vintage to contemporary titles, across mathematics, music, curiosities, cookbooks and fiction. Its staff take in donations, clean and polish them, and shelve them for others. It runs a regular series of literary readings, with the occasional musical performance. The shop describes itself as unassuming and cosy, and it has coffee and a quaint garden for reading.
The shop is accepting only limited book donations at present. A quarterly clearance sale is held in January, April, July and October, with about fifty boxes of books sold below full price. Visitors can pick up online orders in store, or have books posted anywhere in New Zealand for $12, as at 2026. The online store lists its entire second-hand inventory. Gift cards are valid for two years and can be posted as digital vouchers. On Open Locally's figures, The Women's Bookshop is 0.4 km away and rated 4.8 from 193 reviews, and Paper Plus Ponsonby, 0.6 km away, has no rating.