Gould's Bookstore is overwhelming, enticing and a delight to rummage through. Bob Gould has been a Sydney bookseller and collector since 1967 and has been on King St, Newtown since 1988. Gould offers a depth and range of stock that is quite unusual, quirky and exciting to see in the city. There are around 300,000 books and vinyls in the public area of the shop, stacked floor to ceiling, lining the walls and creating small passageways to walk through. However what's revealed is nothing compared to the 650,000 books in storage.

There are signs on the bookshelves on the second level, pointing you in the right direction for broad subject areas, however after that you're left on your own, and the quality of your perusing eye...so allow a bit of time. Even the friendly staff occasionally shrug and say "I'll try to help you find something...but I'm not promising anything." Don't get a bad impression though, it's a cool, relaxed and incredibly unique bookstore which buys and sells books of all shapes and sizes and vinyls of every sound. There's nothing else like it in Sydney.

The shop is the size of two single tennis courts, and with large fluorescent lights, it's like a warehouse solely dedicated to soul food. With a room full of 5ft leaning piles of records, pyramids of books to edge around and a wall of cassettes, there's always something exciting to discover here...