Our gift buyers Libby & Emily have cultivated a beautiful range of new and existing products to help combat single use plastic in day to day life. We asked them to choose their favourite finds for Plastic Free July 2020. Emily pictured above with Freshwater Shampoo Bar, Apiary Made San...

This Winter School Holidays, keep kids creatively stimulated with our Live Storytimes and online Writing Workshops, led by some of Australia's best writers! For our Live Storytimes, simply pull up a cushion and flip to our Facebook page at the designated time, and let our storytellers ...

We are pleased to launch our Survey, in which we hope to learn more about you, how you shop with us, and how you like to shop for books. Your feedback is invaluable for us in solidifying what's working, and planning for the future. It is comrpised of 37 multiple- or single-choice quest...

Like most, we have been saddened by the events unfolding in the US as well as right here in Australia, highlighting a legacy of inequity for Black and Indigenous communities that continues to this day. We thank our community for contacting us to request book recommendations for all age groups,...

Back at the start of 2020, as the bushfires that devastated our country raged on, we wanted to find a way to help at a grass-roots level. On January 24 we kicked off a six-week fundraiser across all 11 stores for Wildlife Rescue South Coast, a 100% volunteer-run organisation dedi...

“Books choose their readers, not the other way around. I believe that booksellers are the matchmakers.” – Cecelia Ahern  The disruptive force of the pandemic gave us the opportunity to take the craft of recommending books to the next level. Booksellers recommen...

It's hard to believe it's only been a month or so since COVID-19 hit our shores. It's been a whirlwind of changing circumstances, and a seemingly neverending series of 'new normals'.  The constant for us has been our desire to bring you books. We worked hard to dev...

One good thing to come out of this pandemic has been the opportunity to further finetune the craft of recommending books to people. This is something we do in store every day, but as waves of social restrictions came flooding through, we were forced to adapt. Our Curated Book List form was bor...

Dear family, friends, colleagues, customers and fellow booklovers,   With so much information swirling around it is hard to know fact from fiction, and on this basis we wanted to reach out and explain how we are moving forward at Harry Hartog.   As we are prioritising...

Please note: this service was deactivated in June following the lifting of COVID restrictions. Whether over the phone, in person or crafting curated book lists for you, every moment reminds us we are continuing to do what we love: bringing you books, and a world of reading so much more exp...

With our Author Events postponed until further notice, we want to keep showcasing the incredible work our writers do. This situation is definitely going to take a toll on our storytellers and artists, but we still have the opportunity to celebrate them. Here are just some of the authors we...

Dear family, friends and loyal customers,   With the current situation, we felt it was necessary to give you an update on what is going on at Harry Hartog.   We are still very much open for business at all our shops and would like to assure you that the wellbeing and hea...

What a bumper crop for this month's Double Loyalty Point books!  Fiction heavyweights Hilary Mantel and Sarah J. Maas' deliver electrifying new instalments for their legion of fans; are you one of them? Literary fiction lovers can delight in the ...

For this month's Double Loyalty Point selection, we welcome Gabbie Stroud back with her insights into teaching, education and parenting with Dear Parents, a follow up to her wildly successful Teacher. In The Love that Remains by Susan Francis, we are treated to a remarkable memoir of love ...

As with the rest of Australia, we have been heartbroken by the fires sweeping the country and the resulting losses of life, homes and habitats. We have also been heartened by the incredible ways in which communities have rallied to help, to heal and to rebuild. To that end, we are committing t...

Revealing our January Double Loyalty lineup, ranging from eye-opening non-fiction to pulse-racing crime! Littlies, roam into the boisterous Zoo School by Heath McKenzie. Older readers, open the cover of How the Brain Lost its Mind by Allan Ropper and Brian David Burrell to ta...

The days are hot, the nights are long ... Summertime is ripe for reading. And so we are elated to announce the Harry Hartog Summer Sale! With 35% or more off selected books and gifts, this is your chance to discover a book you may have missed. You know the book – ...

Home means many things to many different people. In these books and gifts, we range over the great and varied continent of Australia – its brutal convict history, its glorious fauna, its Indigenous heart, its unique light … plus a feathered friend or two. Beginning with th...

We think of Harry Hartog as a meeting place between the worlds found inside books and the world around us – a frontier of discovery for the adventurer inside us all. And so our final round-up of must-read books is dear to our heart, as it celebrates that sense of discovery, of derring-do...

As the silly season sets in, we increasingly turn to the good things in life – the great outdoors, the joys of sharing a meal with loved ones, time spent reconnecting with our neglected senses of taste, smell, and touch. And so we cultivated a collection of our favourite books around the...