Look out for a Mercedes on the roof and 3 tall palm trees… you have found Bikini Beach Books!
Situated in a lovely old Gordon’s Bay home, the bookshop has a great vibe. Find a wealth of both fiction and non- fiction, piled from floor to ceiling. It is bibliophile heaven and leaving is not easy as there may just be that gem in the next room. Fiction is sorted alphabetically and non- fiction is by genre. Allow time!
Prices are incredibly reasonable and you will definitely find something that interests you…along with a lovely ginger pussy cat! There are children’s books and self-help and history, geography, space travel, horticulture, politics, law, Afrikana and hundreds of biographies – there is no subject matter that can not be found in this literary treasure trove.
“Anton Grick, the founder and owner of Bikini Beach Books, came to South Africa from Graz in Austria in 1969 to follow a career in mechanical engineering. Anton bought property in Gordon’s Bay in 1979 – an old boarding house with the quirky name of Oleander which he renovated to become Bikini Beach Books. He told me he loved books and reading and literature from childhood and it was only natural that he would one day trade in books.” Henning van Aswegen
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