A secondhand bookshop at 11 Tyne Street in South Hill, Oamaru, in a building made of Oamaru stone. The shop has been open since 1995, and its interior has a Victorian feel, with stone walls, a wooden floor, sash windows, sofas, tables and chairs, and a pot belly stove. The website says the owners wear Victorian clothing, sales are recorded in a ledger with a fountain pen, and purchases are wrapped in brown paper and tied with string.
Books range from recently published titles to antiquarian and collectable pieces, with prices from $3 to $1,500 as at 2026. Subjects include New Zealand local history, modern first editions, fishing, hunting, mountaineering, literature, fiction, history, military, craft and biography. The shop is open seven days a week from 10am to 5pm, and from 10am to 4pm from May to September. Reviewers mention the shop's breadth of subjects and its quality books. Nearby, Paper Plus Oamaru, 0.7 km away, has far more reviews and rates a little lower.