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www.fullersbookshop.com.au FULLERS BOOKSHOP 131 COLLINS ST HOBART TAS 7000 FICTION TASMANIAN AUTHOR | DUE LATE JULY TASMANIAN AUTHOR THE DEEP THE COOKBOOK OF COMMON PRAYER by KYLE PERRY by FRANCESCA HAIG PB $32.99 P B $ 2 7.9 9 SPECIAL PRICE $29.99 Francesca’s foray into adult fiction, The A new novel from Kyle Perry, author of The Cookbook of Common Prayer, tells a story Bluffs. It’s a modern tale of pirates, and of deception in the name of protecting a the deep, dark depths of the ocean. If you child. Set between London and Tasmania, thought his first novel was ominous, just wait! this novel is gut-wrenching and redemptive.

SHOULD WE STAY OR SHOULD WE GO by LIONEL SHRIVER PB $29.99 PRIZE WINNERS

A desire to die with dignity forces the hand THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD WINNER 2021 of a married couple who decide to help TASMANIAN AUTHOR each other die when they reach eighty. But THE LABYRINTH eighty is upon them, and they’re not quite by AMANDA LOHREY ready to go... PB $29.99 Amanda Lohrey has written a razor-sharp tale about guilt, grief, and building a labyrinth by the ocean. TASMANIAN AUTHOR | DANNY RECOMMENDS BORN INTO THIS ADAM THOMPSON by THE AUSTRALIAN/VOGEL’S LITERARY AWARD WINNER 2021 PB $29.99 NOW THAT I SEE YOU Adam Thompson has delivered a truly by EMMA BATCHELOR diverse collection of stories, working to PB $29.99 expand our understanding of Aboriginal Emma Batchelor’s debut novel follows life through his anger, humour, and the breakdown of a relationship after profound connection to place and people. one party reveals their true, unexpected We suspect Born into This is going to become a staple identity. Now I See You is an epistolary piece of Tasmanian fiction. novel of our times, our troubles, and our newfound understanding of what it means ANNE RECOMMENDS to be a person. TEMPORARY by HILARY LEICHTER VICTORIAN PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARD WINNER 2021 P B $ 2 7.9 9 THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY A timely novel that encapsulates the by LAURA JEAN MCKAY banality of menial labour, the instability PB $29.99 of the increasingly casual gig economy, A plague spreads across the nation, and the shifting identity “performances” leaving those affected by the virus as you drift through various workplaces. with the ability to understand animal The ensuing drudgery and alienation is made magical and communication. A feat of speculative hilarious by Leichter, with every page filled with delicious literary fiction. word-play and business buzzword absurdities. - Anne

STELLA PRIZE WINNER 2021 CLIVE RECOMMENDS THE BASS ROCK KLARA AND THE SUN by EVIE WYLD by KAZUO ISHIGURO PB $22.99 PB $32.99 A gothic tale of three women’s lives This is Ishiguro’s first novel since winning across four centuries. 2021’s Stella the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017. Prize Winner is a powerful feminist text Klara and the Sun is the bizarre, touching about the influence of men over women tale of artificial life, and the false promises throughout history. of humanity.

FULLERS BOOKSHOP WINTER READING GUIDE FICTION TASMANIAN AUTHOR DUE LATE JULY WELCOME TO NOWHERE RIVER MEDUSA’S ANKLES by MEG BIGNELL by A S BYATT PB $32.99 HC $42.99 A delightful, heartfelt and humorous story With an introduction by David Mitchell, this celebrating life in a small country town, selection of A S Byatt’s stories is the product of where everybody knows everything, but no a diverse creative life that pulls from mythology, one really knows anyone at all. fairytales and life in the 20th century.

TASMANIAN AUTHOR THE GOOD WIFE OF BATH TASMANIAN AUTHOR | ADELLE RECOMMENDS by KAREN BROOKS THE MISTAKE PB $32.99 by KATIE MCMAHON PB $29.99 In her finest work yet, local author Karen Brooks has cheekily retold Chaucer’s The The debut novel from local author, Katie Wife of Bath, exploring what happens when McMahon, that asks: what happens when the power of men is left unchecked. Clever, one decision changes everything? And is it wickedly funny historical fiction. possible to turn a mistake around?

BEN RECOMMENDS GRIMMISH LOVE OBJECTS by MICHAEL WINKLER by EMILY MAGUIRE PB $30.99 PB $32.99 Winkler takes the true story of boxer Joe In Love Objects, the Stella-shortlisted author Grim’s tour to Australia and intersperses returns with a deeply moving story about it with meditations on pain, novelistic familial love, hoarding, and harboured hurt. interludes and authorial interjections. Grim was conspicuous for being fairly incompetent with the gloves, but remarkable for his ability to take whatever punishment his opponent could mete out. This is spectacularly smart but also tremendously good fun. - Ben

MARK RECOMMENDS NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS CIVILISATIONS by PATRICIA LOCKWOOD by LAURENT BINET PB $29.99 PB $32.99 From the author of HHhH comes a count- The debut novel from the author of er-history of the modern world, exploring the Priestdaddy, about the internet and our eternal human quest for domination. Civili- relationship to the beast. Lockwood’s sations is a bit wacky, and entirely brilliant. cutting, poetic prose delivers a gut punch of a turn as our protagonist is drawn away from the portal, back into the arms of life and its frailities.

ADELLE RECOMMENDS EMMY RECOMMENDS ARIADNE TALK TO ME by JENNIFER SAINT by T C BOYLE PB $32.99 PB $29.99 For fans of Pat Barker’s The Silence of Talk to Me asks what it means to truly the Girls and Madeline Miller’s Circe. understand another being—human or Ariadne is a fiery novel about the otherwise. In a similar vein to The Inner Princess of Crete. Circle and Outside Looking In, Boyle does what he does best: tricks us into learning about recent scientific history.

FULLERS BOOKSHOP WINTER READING GUIDE NON-FICTION TASMANIAN EDITOR | TIM RECOMMENDS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT INGA CLENDINNEN: SELECTED WRITINGS THE ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART edited by JAMES BOYCE by MEGAN DAVIS + GEORGE WILLIAMS PB $34.99 P B $ 2 7.9 9 An excellent selection of writings from the Constitutional experts, Davis and Wil- woman who was one of Australia’s leading liams, explain what the Uluru Statement intellectual lights. James Boyce presents from the Heart means for Australia, how the many facets of her remarkable body it came into being, and what it means for of work. Animating these pieces is her our future. incredible moral intelligence: above all else, Clendinnen wanted to understand what the world was like for other people. - Tim HENRY REYNOLDS, HISTORIAN TASMANIAN AUTHOR FLASH JIM TRUTH-TELLING by KEL RICHARDS by HENRY REYNOLDS PB $32.99 PB $34.99 You may remember James Hardy Vaux’s Henry’s latest effort presents a Dictionary of Criminal Slang from a few prescient examination of the Uluru years ago. Flash Jim is the story of the Statement from the Heart, which man himself, and what a story! Spotting an works to dismantle colonial lies. opportunity to get in with authorities, JHV Truth-Telling argues that the Uluru set about writing Australia’s first dictionary. Statement is as much about looking to the past as it is about paving a way forward.

TASMANIAN AUTHORS | DUE AUGUST TONGERLONGETER MODERN THOUGHT by HENRY REYNOLDS TASMANIAN AUTHOR + NICHOLAS CLEMENTS TOXIC PB $34.99 by RICHARD FLANAGAN Reynolds and Clements seek to PB $24.99 redeem the efforts of a Tasmanian Richard Flanagan takes on the highly War Hero from historical obscurity, secretive salmon industry in a chilling and reinstate Tongerlongeter into the exposé – an absolute must-read for narrative he himself shaped. A vital biography of a Tasmanians. Phenomenal, important long-forgotten First Nations Leader. work from one of the most powerful voices in Australia.

TASMANIAN EDITOR THE LAST CORRESPONDENT LOVE, PASSION AND CRUELTY by MICHAEL SMITH edited by MALCOLM WARD PB $34.99 PB $50 What does China’s recent rise to Malcolm Ward has collected George superpower mean for Australia, and Meredith’s scandalous love letters to his the rest of the world? Former China wife, written between 1823 and 1836. Correspondent for the Australian You’ll never look at gardens in the same Financial Times gives a first-hand light... Best described as salacious history. account on the state of a highly secretive nation.

WITH THE FALLING OF THE DUSK CONVICT-ERA PORT ARTHUR by STAN GRANT by DAVID W CAMERON PB $34.99 PB $34.99 A book of remarkable scope – In With How many lashes were dispensed in a the Falling of the Dusk, Grant looks single year at Port Arthur? David Cameron at the current state of the world, and delivers a compelling history of the penal offers ways forward in seemingly colony, and the individuals who lived and hopeless situations. died there.

FULLERS BOOKSHOP WINTER READING GUIDE PARENTAL AS ANYTHING by MAGGIE DENT PB $34.99 SLOW FASHION Maggie’s latest parenting book, based on 52 WEEKS OF SOCKS her popular podcast of the same name, by LAINE is all about common-sense parenting. PB $29.99 Dent delivers the perfect combination of Keep yourself busy by knitting a pair professional advice and examples of real- of socks a week! Designed by Nordic life parenting so you can raise a well-adjusted child. knitting experts, and slow living enthusiasts, Laine.

THE THREE BURIALS OF LOTTY KNEEN by KRISSY KNEEN MAKE THRIFT MEND PB $34.99 by KATRINA RODABAUGH HC $35 In this dreamy fairytale of a memoir, Krissy Slow fashion guru, Katrina Rodabaugh, seeks to reconcile her understanding teaches you how to extend the life of of her grandmother’s life with some your favourite pieces by patching, semblance of truth – re-tracing Lotty’s dyeing, and reinventing your current footsteps in search of something tangible. wardrobe. Find yourself with a refreshed outfit and help our planet.

LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I MEAN CAT RECOMMENDS by JOAN DIDION BUILDHER H C $ 2 7.9 9 by KRIBASHINI HANNON No matter the topic, Joan Didion cuts + REBEKA MORGAN through with her singular voice to shape PB $45 perceptions. Her essays are treasure, Packed with smart advice and so many pillaged from the 20th century, informing things that might seem obvious but, if you how we look at the future. don’t know them you don’t know them … and when you do, everything becomes SO much less stressful for yourself. - Cat DUE AUGUST

12 BYTES TASMANIAN AUTHOR JEANETTE WINTERSON by SOIL PB $32.99 by MATTHEW EVANS Winterson takes on twelve of the best talking PB $32.99 points in artificial intelligence, articulating SPECIAL PRICE $29.99 how it affects our lives, and how it might An homage to the crust of the earth that affect our futures. All delivered with the wit allows us to thrive, looking at how humanity and candour we’ve come to expect from has survived off (and thoroughly mistreated) the author of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit. this sacred lifeline.

A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT’S by GEORGE SAUNDERS GOOD FOR YOU? HC $34.99 by DR NORMAN SWAN PB $39.99 What makes great writing great? And what are our brains doing when we read Australia’s favourite doctor is here to tell us great literature? George Saunders shows what we should be doing with our bodies to us across seven essays about seven great keep us fighting fit. Russian short stories.

FULLERS BOOKSHOP WINTER READING GUIDE ART + NATURE

THE MIRROR AND THE PALETTE THE HEARTBEAT OF TREES by JENNIFER HIGGIE by PETER WOHLLEBEN HC $39.99 PB $29.99 Jennifer Higgie explores 500 years’ worth Did you know... of women’s self-portraits, looking at the Scientists believes that certain trees gently artist, their art, and the cultural moment contract their branches to pump water they lived through. from their roots?

GÖRING’S MAN IN PARIS FINDING THE MOTHER TREE by JONATHAN PETROPOULOS by SUZANNE SIMARD HC $51.99 PB $35 An illuminating biography of the notorious Simard’s debut explores how trees work Nazi art plunderer, Bruno Lohse, and his together: their collective memory, healing life in the post-war art world. capacity, and sentience. A fascinating read that seeks to further our understanding of these remarkable, silent beasts.

STILL LIFE THE WELL GARDENED MIND by AMBER CRESWELL BELL by SUE STUART-SMITH HC $59.99 PB $24.99 Explores the diverse practices of over Sue Stuart-Smith uses neuroscience forty contemporary Australian artists, and psychoanalysis to demonstrate the looking at their individual styles, visions remarkable healing effect nature has on and philosophies. our health and wellbeing.

CAT RECOMMENDS SHE-OAK AND SUNLIGHT HOW STELLA LEARNED TO TALK by ANNE GRAY by CHRISTINA HUNGER HC $59.99 PB $32.99 A stunning catalogue in celebration of As a cat my go-to happy-place for finding the NGV’s exhibition of the same name. a book when I can’t settle on anything Featuring the works of Tom Roberts, and it’s all too much is .. dog behaviour Arthur Streeton, and other exceptional books! Oddly, so comforting! Perhaps Heidelberg School artists. it’s to do with seemingly impossible situations having happy outcomes? Order being made out of chaos? - Cat

TASMANIAN AUTHOR A SALUTE TO MAX ANGUS CATS VS DOGS by ALISON ALEXANDER by NEW SCIENTIST HC $75 HC $24.99

A lovingly crafted biography of an New Scientist answers the big questions. adored Tasmanian artist, remembered Will we ever be able to chat to dolphins? for his art, vitality, and dedication to Why all the legs, millipedes? And the the environment. ultimate: cat or dog?

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THE PASTA MAN shop.fullersbookshop.com.au by MATEO ZIELONKA HC $29.99 It’s easy to see why the Pasta Man has such a large and devoted SPECIALS following. For aesthetically pleasing food, we doubt he can be beaten – includes 40 stunning recipes. 3 FOR 2

ONE. POT, PAN, PLANET SALE by ANNA JONES Buy two selected Text Classic titles, HC $49.99 and receive a third for free!* Anna Jones cut her teeth in Jamie Oliver’s *Conditions apply. See in store for details. kitchen before making a name for herself as the undisputed queen of vegetables. TASMANIAN AUTHOR One teaches us to cook quickly, stylishly, VAN DIEMEN’S LAND by JAMES BOYCE and sustainably. HC $49.99 SPECIAL PRICE $17.9 9 James Boyce’s highly lauded history PRE-ORDER! DUE LATE SEPTEMBER shows how convicts found themselves OTTOLENGHI TEST KITCHEN: SHELF LOVE shaped by the landscape of Van Diemen’s by NOOR MURAD + YOTAM OTTOLENGHI Land. The tenth anniversary edition now HC $49.99 at a very special price! Ottolenghi Test Kitchen is an THE SYDNEY HOBART YACHT RACE homage to standing at the pantry by ROB MUNDLE door, looking for inspiration. How HC $34.99 do you turn a bag of frozen greens SPECIAL PRICE $14.99 and a can of chickpeas into something wonderful? Rob Mundle paints a picture of the In other words: What would Ottolenghi do? mental and physical feats participants must endure for a shot at winning the iconic Sydney to Hobart – the world’s TASMANIAN AUTHOR most grueling long ocean race. HOW WILD THINGS ARE by ANALIESE GREGORY HC $45 POCKET FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF TASMANIA World renowned New Zealand chef by MICHAEL MORCOMBE Analiese Gregory set up shop in PB $29.99 Tasmania several years ago. How Wild SPECIAL PRICE $14.99 Things Are is a cookbook, yes, but it is Morecombe’s guide showcases thirty-four of also a guide to the potential Tasmanian Tassie’s most sought after birds, accompanied land and game has to offer for those who seek it. by stunning photography and illustrations. Comes with handy tips, tables, and GPS coordinates.

WILD MUSHROOMING by ALISON POULIOT + TOM MAY PB $49.99 Scan this QR code to With foraging all the rage, it’s important to know what you can and what you pre-order forthcoming titles! really can’t eat. CSIRO makes it easy with Wild Mushrooming.

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TASMANIAN AUTHOR | TASMANIAN ILLUSTRATOR THE PRISON HEALER THE WAY OF THE by LYNETTE NONI WEEDY SEADRAGON PB $24.99 by ANNE MORGAN + LOIS BURY HC $24.99 The first book in an exciting new series from the author of The Medoran Chronciles sees Local author/illustrator duo apply 17-year-old Kiva, having spent a decade their skills to a gorgeous book in prison, voluntarily risk her life in place dedicated to the wonderful Weedy of the Rebel Queen after a mysterious note Seadragon. What a creature! arrives from her family.

THE BOOK OF AUSTRALIAN TREES ELIZA VANDA’S BUTTON BOX by INGA SIMPSON + ALICIA ROGERSON by EMILY RODDA HC $26.99 HC $22.99 This gloriously illustrated guide to Emily Rodda is an incredible talent with Australian trees from nature writer Inga incredible range, and Eliza’s buttons and Simpson may sit in our children’s section, her magical, mystery world come as no but it would be remiss of us not to point exception. out just how beautiful this book really is.

DON’T FORGET JIM CURIOUS by JANE GODWIN + ANNA WALKER AND THE JUNGLE JOURNEY HC $19.99 by MATTHIAS PICARD HC $29.99 A lovely picture book about the things that are important to remember, for Follow Jim on his wordless adventure yourself and the world. through the jungle, in his old-fashioned diving suit. The book comes with 3D glasses to fully immerse yourself in the fabulous illustrations.

TASMANIAN AUTHOR | TASMANIAN ILLUSTRATOR SEA COUNTRY PIG THE MONSTER by AUNTY PATSY CAMERON AARON BLABEY + LISA KENNEDY by HC $24.99 H C $17.9 9 In Sea Country, Aunty Patsy shares It’s Halloween, and Pig is on the the stories, traditions, and ways of life hunt for treats. This spooky hound of her ancestors, season by season. won’t rest until he’s satisfied... Illustrated by Lisa Kennedy, it’s instructive, lyrical, and beautiful.

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