Past events 2012
We regularly host events, including launches, signings, readings, and announcements of prizes. These are usually held in the shop in the early evenings, where you can enjoy a glass of wine with your launch speech, and take the opportunity for some after-hours browsing. We also sell books for events held at other venues.
Check our calendar of upcoming events, or have a look at photos and highlights from past events below.
If you would like to be added to our events mailing list, see our Bookshop Community page. If you are interested in holding an event with us, please email us.
Book Launch: Sweet (Sally Wise)
The Hobart Bookshop, 5:30pm Thursday May 10
Chris Wisbey launched of another of Sally Wise's wonderful cookbooks! We will also be celebrating the release of her book Slow Cooker 2.
Event: Isobelle Carmody
The Baha'i Centre, 6.30pm Tuesday May 8
The Hobart Bookshop and the Tasmanian Writers' Centre were pleased to host an event celebrating the release of Isobelle Carmody's new book, Metro Winds. Isobelle is one of Australia's most beloved fantasy writers, and the author of the best-selling Obernewtyn Chronicles.
You can buy the book from us here.
Book Launch: Too Tough to Lose: The Story of Laurie Morgan (Warwick Morgan)
The Hobart Bookshop, 5:30pm Friday May 4
With publisher 40South, we were pleased to host the launch, by Wayne Roycroft, of the story of Laurie Morgan, Australia's first equestrian Olympic gold medallist.
Book Launch: The Queer Colony (Harold John Solomon, ed. John Andrewartha)
The Hobart Bookshop, 5:30pm Thursday April 26
"Old agile brains are always evolving and while some may scheme for augmentation of estates, perhaps Joseph and Judah Solomon's thoughts were elsewhere when they arrived in Hobart Town as convicts on 1 March 1820..."
We were pleased to launch The Queer Colony at the bookshop.
Book launch: Greed or Survival? (Max Bound)
The Hobart Bookshop, 5:30pm Thursday April 12
Pete Hay launched Max Bound's Greed or Survival?
Reading: Geoff Goodfellow
The Hobart Bookshop, 5:30pm Thursday April 19
We were pleased to host an evening reading by Geoff Goodfellow (with wine kindly provided by Vinosity Wines), author of more than ten books including, most recently, the poetry collection Waltzing with Jack Dancer (2011), featuring the photography of Randy Larcombe.
Geoff is a Bush Slam winner (ABC TV), a shortlisted Age Literary Award nominee, and an extremely powerful and entertaining poet.
Book launch: Undercover of Lightness (Andrew Burke)
The Hobart Bookshop, 5:30pm Thursday March 29
The Hobart Bookshop was pleased to host the launch, by Philomena van Rijswijk, of Andrew Burke's new poetry collection, published by Walleah Press.
Andrew Burke is an Australian poet who has lived most of his life in Perth. In his teens, Burke read Kerouac and Ginsberg and other 'Beat' writers, and they gained his interest more than the literature he was studying at school. He aped their style in all he wrote, and published his first short story at 18. He has written on a daily basis ever since: stories, plays, poems, and-to feed family-advertising material and videos, annual reports and press releases.
Book launch: On a Hook Behind the Door (Fran Graham)
The Hobart Bookshop, 5:30pm Friday March 23
The Hobart Bookshop was pleased to host the launch, by Karen Knight, of Fran Graham's poetry collection On a Hook Behind the Door.
Event: As I Was Saying (Robert Dessaix)
Salamanca Inn, 5:30pm Thursday March 15
We were very pleased to host this event celebrating the release of Robert Dessaix's latest book.
As I Was Saying is a swirling conversation with the reader on everything from travel to dogs and cats, from sport and swearing to the pleasures of idleness. Punctuated at regular intervals by talks Dessaix has given on a wide range of subjects, as well as by some of his most incisive journalism, the conversation invites the reader to join a leisurely guided tour of his chamber of curiosities, featuring pieces collected all over the globe from across the centuries.
You can buy the book from us here.
Book launch: Other People's Houses (Megan Schaffner, editor)
The Hobart Bookshop, 5.30pm Thursday February 16
Robert Cox launched the short story collection Other People's Houses. It includes fifteen works by thirteen writers, all of whom are members of the Tasmanian branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
Book launch: Tasmania Over Five Generations (John Biggs)
The Hobart Bookshop, 4.00pm Saturday February 4
The Hon. Andrew Wilkie, MP. launched Tasmania Over Five Generations: Return to Van Diemen's Land?. The book traces the life of Biggs' great-great-grandfather, Abraham, who arrived in Tasmania in 1833. It also examines the social and polital history of the times through the lives of four of Abraham's descendants.
Book launches: Reign of Beasts (Tansy Rayner Roberts) & Sea Hearts (Margo Lanagan)
The Hobart Bookshop, 5.30pm Thursday February 2
We were excited to host the launch of Reign of Beasts as our first event of 2012. Rowena Cory Daniells launched the final book in Roberts' Creature Court trilogy which, according to Tansy's website, "is a dark fantasy trilogy featuring flappers, shape-changers and bloodthirsty court politics."
Margo Lanagan also joined us for the evening, and her book Sea Hearts was launched by Richard Harland. Sea Hearts is an extraordinary tale of desire and revenge, of loyalty, heartache and human weakness, and of the unforeseen consequences of all-consuming love.