{"id":204895,"date":"2025-10-11T07:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204895\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T07:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:17:07","slug":"couples-absolute-dream-to-open-the-mysterious-bookcase-in-bournemouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/204895\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple&#8217;s &#8216;absolute dream&#8217; to open The Mysterious Bookcase in Bournemouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A couple have said they have realised their &#8220;absolute dream&#8221; of converting an online bookshop into bricks and mortar on the high street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ally Fir, 31, and Matt Rawlings, 33, created The Mysterious Bookcase on TikTok in 2022 and  began selling unidentified books to mystery shoppers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now three years on, they are opening a physical store in Westbourne Arcade, Bournemouth, selling romance, sci-fi, fantasy and thriller fiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Fir, who is originally from Canada, said they were able to open their shop on Saturday thanks to support from 615 members of their online fan club who helped them raise nearly \u00a332,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple have said they have realised their &#8220;absolute dream&#8221; of converting an online bookshop into bricks and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134],"class_list":["post-204895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}