Fullers Bookshop is Tasmania’s leading independent bookshop — wholly Tasmanian owned and operated since the early 1920s.
CHRISTMAS SHOPPER NIGHTS!!
Nov
25
2013
WOOOHOOO! It's Christmas. Fullers Bookshop in Hobart and Launceston are holding some Christmassy shindigs...
...so come along, grab some specials, down some bubbly or pose for a Manabu Kondo photo (Hobart only), and help us celebrate some new books (Launceston launches)! Kondo will be instore taking photographs as part of his Tasmania 10,000 people project. The project aims to take photographs of 10,000 Tasmanian residents in a year, so be in it!
Spring Findings - Out now.
Sep
17
2013
There's a bookly blockbusting Spring and Summer descending on us (like). Flanagan, Tsiolkas, Winton - the boys are back, and they're angry – three heavy weights of Australian writing tackle, amongst everything else, the contemporary Australian male condition. And the ladies? Big big novels from Donna Tartt and Elizabeth Gilbert (forget any notion of Eat Pray Love this woman writes terrific fiction too) and Eleanor Catton's enormous Booker Prize shortlisted Luminaries.
ABC Centre of the Year
Sep
17
2013
Here is a picy of B1 and B2 congratulating Clive on winning ABC Centre of the Year for the whole of Australia – and a BIG congratulations to Ruth who manages the centre!!!!!
Break out the bubbly – we are alive and kickin’ in Tassie!!!!!!
New Tasmaniana!
Aug
26
2013
How lucky we are! We have so many great Tasmanian books for you to dive nose-first into. Here's a snippet of some recent arrivals to our Tasmaniana shelves...
Win with Griffith Review's 10th anniversary edition
Aug
1
2013
With Now We Are Ten, Griffith Review are celebrating their tenth anniversary with flair and panache.
As a birthday gift they've given us a wonderful collection of writing, including writing by Frank Moorhouse (The Edith Trilogy) on the proliferation of surveillance and our own Rodney Croome on belonging - and much, much more. Read more about Now We Are Ten.
BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!
No, no set of steak knives. Even better - if you get yourself a copy of Griffith Review 41: Now We Are Ten you could win a set of ALL 40 past editions*!
HOLY SMOKE.
Vote for your favourite bookshop
Jul
11
2013
In an Australian first book-lovers all over the country will be able to vote for their favourite Australian bookshop.
All voters will go into the drawer* to win a $500 shopping trip at their favourite bookshop**. Now we wonder who that could be??
Competition opens Saturday 13th July and closes 5pm, 5th August.
You can vote here.
Watch a video about it.
Super duper.
No More Than A Ghost
Jul
4
2013
HANNAH KENT AUSTRALIAN STORY
The Adelaide lass now having bidding wars over her re-imagining of the true story of Agnes Magnusdottir - beheaded for murder in Iceland some 180 years ago, and the last woman to suffer that fate - was recently featured on ABC TV's Australian Story.
Watch Hannah Kent on Australian Story's No More Than A Ghost.
REVIEW of The Sisters Brothers
Jun
27
2013
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
John says:
Winter Findings
Jun
3
2013
Flappers, watchers, history, mountains and heartbeats...
It's marshmallow time. And what goes extremely well with marshmallows? Hot chocolate and a good book, right? A roaring fire too, if you can manage it. If not, we think these books will set a fire in the old bonce anyway.
Hip Hobart...?
May
23
2013
Yep. So HOP TO FULLERS.
At least, that's what BBC Travel says! And who are we to disagree?!
Well, they say a lot of things about great places to shop, eat, play in Hobart, in their recent article 'Hip Hobart', but the bits we were most interested in were where they talked up YOURS TRULY, calling us Tasmania's best bookshop: