Please refer to the details below and choose the drop-off location that is most convenient for you.
West Lindfield Book Depot
Open Mon–Thur 9am–3pm
Corner of Polding and Ignatius Roads,
West Lindfield
Hornsby Book Depot
Open Tue–Thur 9:30am–1:30pm
1/51 Leighton Place,
Hornsby
Gordon Book Shed
Open 24/7
4 Park Avenue,
Gordon
Please see below for further information about each drop-off point.
Our book fairs and shops are known for the excellent range and condition of books on offer. But they wouldn't be possible without the generosity of our community, who ensure we have a steady stream of high-quality and often special books that our eager book buyers just love.
Importantly, these donations also ensure a steady stream of funds for the crisis-support and suicide-prevention services we provide at Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury Sydney, from counselling to community services and group programs. By turning profit into purpose, we can make sure Lifeline is there when people need us most.
We have three locations – Gordon, West Lindfield and Hornsby – where you can drop off books; see below for details. If you have any questions about donating books, please get in touch.
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Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury Sydney has three convenient locations in Gordon, West Lindfield and Hornsby where you can drop off book donations.
Please place donations in a small cardboard box or bag that is light enough for our volunteers to carry easily. Labels are helpful too.
We treat rare, antique or collectible books with great care, so please let us know if your donations are valuable. Thank you!
We are not open on public holidays.
Corner of Polding and Ignatius Roads, West Lindfield
Drive up the driveway, through the bushy block, to the carpark.
We are not open on public holidays.
On reaching the far end of Leighton Place, at the top of the hill there’s a large white sign that says: 51 Leighton Place – 150 metres. Follow the driveway in the direction shown, past the other buildings.
Number 51 is at the end of the driveway, and Unit 1 can be reached by taking the down ramp to the left of the main entrance. Unit 1 is immediately at the bottom of the ramp on the right.
Please park with consideration for other tenants.
Donations are accepted 24/7. The shed is emptied on Monday and Friday mornings, and Wednesday afternoons.
Located in the car park off Pearson Avenue (behind our office). As you enter the car park, on the right is a silver-coloured garden shed. It is set back slightly from the car park and next to the blue clothing bins.
If the shed is full, please come back another time so donations don’t get weather-damaged.
If you have books in good condition you’d like to donate, we'd love to hear from you. We accept:
We also welcome rare, valuable or antiquarian books. Offered at our Special auctions at major book fairs, these books generate a lot of interest and raise significant amounts for our services and are particularly appreciated.
We only accept high-quality donations. If items are yellowed, mouldy, torn, dirty, have been written in or defaced, or have pages stuck together or are in any other way damaged, please do not donate them. We also don't take:
Our volunteers spend a lot of time processing the books we receive, and it costs Lifeline money to dispose of those that don’t make the grade, so please don’t donate anything you wouldn’t pass on to a friend or see at one of our fairs or shops. Put them in the recycling instead – you’ll still be doing good.
Our retail shops also accept
clean donations in good condition.
