Twice a year there is an enormous charity booksale at the Brisbane convention centre. I usually go to look for good books and especially hymn books.
I didn’t get to go until the last day this year, which meant I have may have missed the best selection, but they do drop the prices for the last day and that makes up for it somewhat.
I have had some wonderful finds over the years and was lucky to get some stand outs among the collections of praise and worship songs I seem to buy and then never look into much.
I found a well preserved melody line edition of GIA’s Gather from 1988. I have Gather Australia and Gather Comprehensive but it is good to have just plain Gather as well.
I also found a Graham Kendrick book called The Collection that might prove useful. I picked up Sing Alleluia, which is the supplement to the Australian Hymn Book, which has – ta da – chords! – how wonderful. There was also a Lucein Diess collection of prayers called Come Lord Jesus.
Not a hymn book, but found in the “fill a bag for $5” section was Schillebeeckx’s The Eucharist. It was sold by Pellegrini & Co in Brisbane for $1.50 to the Holy Spirit Convent at Carseldine where it no doubt corrupted the faith of the nuns with its modernist ways. I was delighted to come across it.
In the past you often found copies of As One Voice or Gather Australia but I think people are holding on to them these days.