A bookshop in nature you get to keep for a week.
Deposit your phone · Withdraw a story
Est. 1914 · Uki, NSW
For one week, the bookshop is yours — and your phone is not. You deposit it in the original steel vault and receive a stamped, dated receipt. You spend the week running the shop, walking under Wollumbin, and reading. Almost nobody asks for their phone back before Sunday.
01 · The Residency
Stay in the 1914 heritage bank in Uki, NSW. Price the shelves, ring the old till, chat to whoever wanders in from the village. Your phone sleeps in the vault. Wollumbin fills your window.
Join the waitlist →02 · Book Prescription
Tell us what you've loved, what you're looking for, what you need right now. We'll prescribe the right book. Free, personal, and ready in seconds — powered by a librarian's instinct and a little AI.
Get your prescription →03 · Letters from the Vault
A sealed letter, a book recommendation, and a small piece of the slow life — mailed to subscribers each month. Written as if the building itself is writing to you.
Subscribe →The Founder
Building the bookshop holiday that doesn't exist yet. Reading, nature, and the slower life — all in one place, in a rainforest village under Wollumbin.
The Story Bank is also home to a free Book Prescription tool and a growing library of reading recommendations for people who take books seriously.
Read more →The Story Bank doesn't exist yet — but it will. Be the first to know when bookings open and get early access to Letters from the Vault.
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