Upcoming events
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 below, or have a look at photos and highlights from past events.
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: Other People's Houses (Megan Schaffner, editor)
The Hobart Bookshop, 5.30pm Thursday February 16
Robert Cox will launch 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.
Free event, all welcome.
Book event: As I Was Saying: A Collection of Musing (Robert Dessaix)
Salamanca Inn, 5.30pm Thursday March 15
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.
Free event, all welcome.
Book launch: On a Hook Behind the Door (Fran Graham)
The Hobart Bookshop, 5.30pm Friday March 23
The Hobart Bookshop is pleased to invite you to the launch, by Karen Knight, of Fran Graham's poetry collection On a Hook Behind the Door.
Free event, all welcome.