Hobart Bookshop
A special event for your diaries …
The Hobart Bookshop, in conjunction with Astrolabe Booksellers and Kookaburra Books, is excited to invite you to a special second-hand book fair, where you’ll find thousands of treats and treasures. We’ll be reluctantly letting go of all sorts of things we’ve been hanging on to for years, so get excited. Bring your best bargain-hunting spectacles and book-carrying bags, because you won’t be leaving empty-handed, even if you think you’re only coming for a look!
Where: Battery Point Community Hall, 52 Hampden Road, Battery Point
When: 9am until 4.30pm, Saturday October 28th
And a reminder about our upcoming launches …
The Hobart Bookshop is pleased to invite you to the launch, by Pete Hay, of Ross Brownscombe’s new book, In Search of Space: Journeys in Wild Places.
Wild places are everywhere: distinctive, idiosyncratic, unique. And rare. Unfortunately, in Australia, opportunities for reading imaginative, lyrical, non fiction prose – nature writing – that explores the poetry and magic of wild places are also rare. In Search Of Space: Journeys In Wild Places attempts to rectify that. In the great nature writing tradition of Peter Matthiessen, Barry Lopez and Edward Abbey, these essays are part travelogue, part memoir, sometimes provocative, always lyrical and engaging.
In Search Of Space: Journeys in Wild Places is a collection of essays that were published in various magazines – most notably Wilderness News, the magazine of The Wilderness Society. Ross Brownscombe writes of journeys he has made, often accompanied by his wife and children, to wild places in the Blue Mountains, central Australia, southwest Tasmania. He and his family raft down a remote river in Alaska and get closer to wildness than any of them had bargained for. Brownscombe’s vivid, searching essays are encounters with landscape, ideas, self and family that show why we need wild places as part of our being.
In Search Of Space will be launched by poet and author Pete Hay. Pete and Ross will be joined by Peter Grant, co-founder of the Tasmanian Wildcare Nature Writing Prize, for a short Q&A panel discussion on nature writing in Australia.
Where: The Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square
When: 5.30pm, Wednesday October 25th
Free event, all welcome.
The Hobart Bookshop is pleased to invite you to the launch of the second book in LF McDermott’s Garth Trilogy, Perseverance.
Garth is an historical trilogy: 3 novels based upon the lives of 5 generations of the Garth and Bellett families. It begins with four convicts, three transported on the First Fleet and one on the Second, from England to Port Jackson, then to Norfolk Island and later to Tasmania and beyond. The tale of the Garths and Belletts provides an insight into the lives of pioneers in early post 1788 Australia and the growth of a nation. You will experience with them their fears, anticipation, joy and sadness as they discover what makes them who they are.
To read more about LF McDermott and the Garth series, please visit the website.
Where: The Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square
When: 5.30pm, Thursday November 9th
Free event, all welcome.
