Limestone Coast readers are picking up local authors more, according to a local bookseller.
Collins Booksellers owner Sonya Beare said customers were keen to read the work written by local authors.
“Sometime people only want to read something that is local,” she said.
She said locals enjoy sharing the work of local authors when travelling or when having guests visit from out of town.
Recently, a book by former local Maxwell Sims, The Mount Gambier Murders, surpassed 100 copies sold.
The fiction novel tells the story of three murders in Mount Gambier/Berrin, with the book taking readers on a journey as new detective senior sergeant Grace Chalmers settles into town and tries to solve the high profile deaths.
Ms Beare makes space for all local authors, stocking a mixture of self-published and traditionally published books.
They also stock local artworks and puzzles, and having them all together, Ms Beare said, helped to encourage people to pick up other local books.
“Sometimes having them all together helps- Banjo’s Frog’s Concert Spectacular has been very big recently, they had a big launch and because it is with the other ones, it gives the exposure to the others, to things people didn’t know were by local authors.”
Find an array of books and publications by Limestone Coast authors at Collins Booksellers on Commercial Street East.
