Australians join ‘Sober October’ to support local bookshops

27 September 2011 Books+Publishing

Some Australian bookshops will receive donations from locals undertaking the UK-founded ‘Sober October' campaign next month.Initiated by Kirsten Harrison and Stef Posavec, Sober October asks participants to abstain from alcohol for ‘a day, a week or the whole month' and to instead spend ‘whatever booze-money you have saved' at a...