Club Bookshop

Based in Swifts Creek and run by regional historian Peter Gardner, Club Bookshop has approximately 35,000 books in stock. Covering a wide variety of topics and contain many rare editions.

Ngarak Press is owned and operated by regional historian Peter Gardner and has been established since 1989. Initially a mail order business Ngarak now deals substantially in secondhand books as well as wholesaling and retailing.

Peter Gardner has lived in Gippsland for more than twenty-five years. During this time he has written extensively on place names in Gippsland and South-east Australia. His books include Names of Bass Strait and recently Names on the Great Alpine Road between Wangaratta and Omeo. He has also studied the history of the Gippsland Aboriginal tribes collectively known as the Kurnai and has written three books on this subject. Whilst the Kurnai history is his specialty Gardner prefers to be known as a regional historian and has published other works on literary, mining and environmental aspects of Gippsland's history.

He has worked as an emergency teacher, seasonal forestry worker, fire spotter, track marker, fencer and part-time prospector. He is currently working as a secondhand bookdealer.