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Welcome If you would liketo receive our newsletters detailing our favourite new releases, events and more,pleasesubscribe to our email list. Here you can find an overview of our range. New titles arrive in-store each week - too many to list - so please use ourBook Enquiry Form or phone us on (03) 6223 1803 if you can't find the book you are after. Our specialty Tasmanian selection is huge and complemented with a selection of secondhand titles for those wanting older books about our island's fascinating history and many intriguing stories. Please note: due to Covid-19 there may be significant delays for customers who require us to send books overseas, so pleasecontact us for postage charges and more information. Happy browsing! Find us on Google Maps Covid-19 update As uncertainty around Covid-19 continues, we thought a quick note was in order to reassure our customers. What we are doing in-store: Ensuring our counters and other surfaces are clean and as free of germs as possible. Washing our hands with soap regularly and thoroughly. Providing hand sanitiser at our entrance and at the counter for all customers. We are still accepting cash as a means of payment, however payment by card is preferred. Gift vouchers Share your love of reading! Hobart Bookshop gift vouchers can be gifted with any value of your choice from AUD$5.00 and up. Make your enquiry here. Upcoming events Shuggie Bain (Douglas Stuart) For more information, visitThe Booker website. 2020 Children's Book Council of Australia See the full list here 2020 Miles Franklin Winner The Yield (Tara June Winch) For more information, visitThe Miles Franklin website. 2020 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year: Bluey: The BeachGeneral Fiction Book of the Year: Bruny (Heather Rose)Literary Fiction Book of the Year: The Weekend (Charlotte Wood) For the full list, visit theABIA website. 2020 The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award A Treacherous Country (K.M. Kruimink) For further information visit theThe Australian/Vogel's Literary Awardwebsite. 2020 Stella Prize Winner See What You Made Me Do(Jess Hill) For further information, see theStella Prizewebsite. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams Richard FlanaganPenguinISBN 9781760899943Hardback2020Price $32.99Order online|View cart In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying - if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight. When Anna's finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window.All shecan do is keep her mother alive. But the window keeps opening wider, taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into a strangely beautiful story about hope and love and orange-bellied parrots. The Ultimate Animal Alphabet Book Jennifer CossinsLothianGenre:Children'sISBN 9780734420091Hardback 2020Price $29.99Order online|View cart From the Adelie penguin to the zigzag heron, this A-Z book is jam-packed with over 400 animal species and all kinds of interesting animal facts.Discover why the American flamingo is pink, how emerald tree boas hunt their food, what a baby echidna is called and whether the dusky leaf money really has four stomachs. Another great book from this award-winning Tasmanian illustrator. Inside Story Martin AmisJonathan CapeGenre:FictionISBN 9781787332768Trade paperback 2020Price $34.99Order online|View cart Inside Storyis a novel that had its birth in a death - that of the author's closest friend, Christopher Hitchens.In this very intimate work we encounter the vibrant characters who have helped define Martin Amis, from his father Kingsley, to his hero Saul Bellow, from Philip Larkin to Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard, and to the person who captivated his twenties, the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps. Honeybee Craig SilveyAllen UnwinGenre:FictionISBN 9781760877224Trade paperback 2020Price $32.99Order online|View cart Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, Vic, smokes his last cigarette. The two see each other across the void. A fateful connection is made, and an unlikely friendship blooms. Our Shadows Gail JonesText PublishingGenre:FictionISBN 9781922330284Trade Paperback2020Price $32.99Order online|View cart Eliza Miller grew up in Australia as the only daughter of a troubled young mother, but with the constant support of two watchful godmothers, Olivia and Maxie. Despite her tricky childhood, she always felt loved and secure. Until, just before her eighteenth birthday, a tragic event changed her life.Set in Australia, Scotland, Ireland and England,The Godmothersis a great big hug of a book that will fill your heart to bursting. It is a moving and perceptive story about love, lies, hope and sorrow, about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves. The Godmothers Monica McInerneyPenguinGenre:FictionISBN 9781760893736Trade Paperback2020Price $32.99Order online|View cart Eliza Miller grew up in Australia as the only daughter of a troubled young mother, but with the constant support of two watchful godmothers, Olivia and Maxie. Despite her tricky childhood, she always felt loved and secure. Until, just before her eighteenth birthday, a tragic event changed her life.Set in Australia, Scotland, Ireland and England, The Godmothersis a great big hug of a book that will fill your heart to bursting. It is a moving and perceptive story about love, lies, hope and sorrow, about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves. Skunk and Badger #1 Amy Timberlake, ill. Jon KlassenAllen UnwinGenre: Middle FictionISBN 9781760525484Hardback 2020Price $22.99Order online|View cart Skunk is Badger's new roommate, and there is nothing Badger, who prefers to be left alone to do Important Rock Work, can do about it. Tails are flipped. The wrong animal is sprayed. And why-oh-why are there so many chickens? Winnie-the-Pooh meets Wallace Gromit in a fresh take on a classic odd-couple friendship. The Wreck Meg KeneallyEchoGenre: FictionISBN 9781760686208Trade Paperback 2020Price $29.99Order online|View cart It's 1820, and Sarah McCaffrey, fleeing arrest for her part in a failed rebellion, thinks she has escaped when she finds herself aboard the Serpent, bound from London to the colony of New South Wales. But when the captain's actions drive the ship into a cliff, Sarah is the only survivor. Adopting a false identity, she becomes the right-hand woman of Molly Thistle, who has grown her late husband's business interests into a sprawling real estate and trade empire. A moving tale of revolution, treachery and courage. Imperial Mud James BoyceIconGenre:HistoryISBN 9781785786501Hardback 2020Price $24.99Order online|View cart The final destruction of England's last lowland wilderness and the dispossession of its custodians was not an inevitable consequence of 'progress', but of the growing power of a centralised and militarised state. Imperial Mud re-imagines not just the history of the Fens, but the history and identity of the English people. The Lying Life of Adults Elena FerranteEuropa EditionsGenre: FictionISBN 9781787702400Paperback 2020Price $32.99Order online|View cart Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, which professes to be a place of excess and vulgarity. A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Vesper Flights Helen MacdonaldJonathan CapeGenre: NatureISBN 9780224097017Hardback 2020Price $35.00Order online|View cart From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world. There are essays here on headaches, on catching swans, on hunting mushrooms, on twentieth-century spies, on numinous experiences and high-rise buildings; on nests and wild pigs and the tribulations of farming ostriches. Moving and frank, personal and political, it confirms Helen Macdonald as one of this century's greatest nature writers. English Pastoral James RebanksAllen LaneGenre: BiographyISBN 9780241501214Trade Paperback 2020Price $35.00Order online|View cart 'English Pastoral is the story of an inheritance - one that affects us all. It tells of how rural landscapes around the world were brought close to collapse, and the age-old rhythms of work, weather, community and wild things were lost. And yet this elegy from the Lake District fells is also a song of hope - how, guided by the past, one farmer began to salvage a tiny corner of England that was now his, doing his best to restore the life that had vanished and to leave a legacy for the future. This is a book about what it means to have love and pride in a place, and how, against all the odds, it may still be possible to build a new pastoral - not a utopia, but somewhere decent for us all. The Golden Maze Richard FidlerABC BooksGenre:HistoryISBN9780733335266Hardback 2020Price $39.99Order online|View cart Following the story of Prague from its origins in medieval darkness to its uncertain present, Fidler does what he does so well - curates an absolutely engaging and compelling history of a place. You will learn things you never knew, with a tour guide who is erudite, inquisitive, and the best storyteller you could have as your companion. The Last Lighthouse Keeper John Cook with Jon BauerAllen UnwinGenre: BiographyISBN 9781760875381Trade paperback2020Price $AU 29.99Order online|View cart In Tasmania, John Cook is known as: 'The Keeper of the Flame'. He spent a good part of his 26-year career in Tasmanian lighthouses tending kerosene, not electrical, lamps. He joined the lighthouse service in 1969, after a spell in the merchant marine and did two stints on Tasman Island, in 1969-71 and 1977, and was the head keeper on Maatsuyker for eight years. This is his story. Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonn : 1955 1992 Kathie SutherlandGenre: ArtISBN 9781760641719Slipcase 2020Price $AU 1500.00Contact Us This monumental seven-volume collection chronicles a lifetime of work in exhaustive detail. Compiled by art historian Kathie Sutherland over seven years, the set of cloth-bound books is presented in a deluxe, elegantly finished slipcase and presents more than 4600 artworks, including hundreds of never-before-published works. See more details here. I Shed My Skin - A Furneaux Islands Story Jane Giblin40 South PublishingGenre:TasmanianaISBN 9780648675808Hardback2020Price $AU75.00Order online|View cart I Shed My Skin - A Furneaux Islands Storyevolved out of an exhibition of Jane Giblin s artwork which toured Tasmania in 2019. Jane travelled up and down the eastern seaboard of Australia interviewing her father s cousinsandsenior Furneaux community members, seeking memories of her great grandparents, feelings about the islands, farming and birding, as well as how they were acclimatising to changed land access and tradition due to successful land rights claims by local First Nations people.Tasmanian writer Pete Hay's poetry and prose complements Jane's work in this beautifully presented publication. The Bluffs Kyle PerryPenguinGenre: FictionISBN 9781760895679Trade Paperback2020Price $AU 32.99Order online|View cart When a school group of teenage girls goes missing in the remote wilderness of Tasmania's Great Western Tiers, the people of Limestone Creek are immediately on alert. Three decades ago, five young girls disappeared in the area of those dangerous bluffs, and the legend of 'the Hungry Man' still haunts locals to this day. Go totop of page.

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