… Fullers Bookshop became my second home. I went there to get warm on a wintry afternoon, to strike up conversations with thoughtful booksellers and to find insights about Tasmania in the books by local authors that they recommended, and that the bookstore often published. It’s a venerable store, established by Bill Fuller in 1920, run by a pair of jazz musicians through the 1960s and ’70s. It bounced around town, driven from place to place by rents and development pressure. …
• Kevin F. Moylan in Comments: Authors need support and recognition, especially those who self-publish and distribute some damning experiences of the antiquated and neglectful Tasmanian mental health system – and what happens to those public servants who speak out about it. Fuller’s in Hobart Town, readily stocked my non-fiction story, “One Flew Over the Kookaburra’s Nest” (Second Edition 2017) Thank you Fuller’s for promoting my ‘public interest’ story. Petrach’s in Launceston also stock my book, but NO North West Coast bookshops (yet). My story is based there. Wynyard newsagency took 10 copies. ABC “Royal Hobart Hospital – Third World”. It was Locums (outsiders) who spoke out! NO locals? NO mention of RHH Psychiatric Ward? Please don’t forget them during this 20-year ‘crisis’. Let the people tell their stories; then we’ll learn more. But how to fix it? Or do they have the desire?
