Fullers Bookshop is Tasmania’s leading independent bookshop — wholly Tasmanian owned and operated since the early 1920s.
Easter SALE and opening hours
Apr
17
2014
QUICK! Before the Easter Bunny gets here and we join the revelling fray! This Saturday begins our week (and a bit) of Easter specials.
Over Easter come to Fullers Bookshop Hobart to nab these excellent Autumn warmers at great prices:
Tasmanian Plant Names Unravelled
By Mark, Annie and Hans Wapstra
Was $75 now $29.95 !
WIN a Tasman Peninsula short break!
Apr
10
2014
EXPERIENCE THE BEST OF THE TASMAN PENINSULA WITH A SHORT BREAK PACKAGE!
Short break package?
It's time to fall in love with the Tasman Peninsula all over again - and here's how...
Fullers Autumn Findings
Mar
24
2014
OUT NOW!
Your petit-guide to a good book for this mellowing season, Autumn 2014, has once again landed *plop* in our laps.
Check out our new gossip, WIN a Tasman Peninsula short break package, find a great book, or just look at all the pretty colours. It's up to you!
CLICK HERE to view our online Fullers Findings gallery - or better yet pick up a copy in your local Fullers Bookshop.
Read on for a taste of what wonders lie within...
2014 Stella Prize shortlist announced
Mar
20
2014
We're extremely chuffed to announce the stellar (heh) shortlist of Australian women writers which has just been released for the 2014 Stella Prize. Read on...
I'd Eat That! Free recipe...
Mar
13
2014
HALOUMI, ASPARAGUS & POMEGRANATE QUINOA WITH CHUNKY PARSLEY SAUCE
...from p128 of I'd Eat That!
This recipe looks so superfoodily awesome it makes us want to run away and join the food circus.
Beaconsfield Festival of Golden Words
Mar
6
2014
Friday 14th to Sunday 16th March
Fullers Bookshop is very proud to be the Official Bookseller for the Beaconsfield Festival of Golden Words. The list of authors appearing here is unprecedented at any writers festival in Tasmania. Local, national, renowned and super-stars! Come and seek us out as the Official Bookseller of the Beaconsfield Festival of Golden Words.
Free marquee sessions, poets’ breakfasts, literary lunches, a literary dinner, a national address, writers workshops, vineyard food and wine writing sessions. A unique writers festival in Tasmania’s beautiful Tamar Valley.
Competition Winners
Feb
20
2014
The Summer Reading Guide 2014 competition winners have been announced!
Our warmest congrats go to...
AL of Hermit Park in Queensland for winning the Art as Therapy competition - through Riverbend Books
AH of Alexandria in NSW for winning the library of books - through Gleebooks
The Summer Reading Guide is your handy resource to the season’s best books, CDs, DVDs, gift ideas and more.
Writing Competition -EXTENDED-
Jan
23
2014
Beaconsfield Festival of Golden Words
14th - 16th March
This festival is Tasmania's biggest ever wordfest, with over 70 writers attending - including our own Ben Walter...
Fullers Bookshop is a major sponsor of the upcoming Beaconsfield Festival of Golden Words, and they are running a writing competition!
This competition is now open, with $1,250 in prizes in adult, young writer, and Tamar Valley schoolchild categories. Download entry form from their website.
Entries now close on the 17th February!
Tasmanian Lute Festival
Jan
9
2014
Fullers Bookshop is very happy to be supporting the Lilydale Lute Festival!
This year the town of Lilydale will play host to many events including concerts, Hopkinson Smith classes, lute making workshops, master classes, choirs, try-a-lute sessions, ensemble playing, talks, and even an art competition for the children.
There will also be concerts at Deloraine, Hobart and Bruny Island (changed from Cygnet) . It has become a tradition of the Festival to finish with a musicological talk and this will be given by Karin Paulsmeier of the Schola Cantorum, Basel.
Make sure you get along and check out what Lilydale and the Lute Festival have to offer.
A Matthew Reilly story - prequel to The Tournament
Dec
29
2013
Roger Ascham and the King’s Lost Girl
If you're a thriller fan and love a bit of Matthew Reilly, we've got a short story, Roger Ascham and the King’s Lost Girl, for you to read for free, courtesy of MacMillan Publishers.
In this special prequel to Matthew Reilly’s The Tournament, Roger Ascham, the unorthodox tutor of Princess Elizabeth, is tasked by King Henry VIII with a most unusual and dangerous mission.
Read the short story here