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...

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 expansive than our loungerooms. So, we are pleased to make that even easier with our&nb...

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...

For this collection, we roved over sports grounds and playgrounds, picked up chunky pens and cheeky Christmas-themed games. It’s an odd bunch, united by a yen for fun. And what could be more fun than A Trip to the Beach? With the best sandcastle ever built and a few perfect waves, ca...

Did you know that reading quietly for only six minutes has been shown to reduce heart rate and ease muscle tension? And that, just like exercise, reading for 30 minutes a day can add years to your life? It also reduces stress by 68% more than listening to music, going for a walk or having a cu...

We all need some Fun & Laughter in our lives now and then, don’t we? From feathered fowls to funny bones, prancing unicorns to demoted planets, take a walk on the witty side of life with these reads that do not take themselves too seriously. (And creature features, there are a fe...

I have long been on a journey that started with a letter from my loving sister Myrtle, telling me of a family I didn’t know I had, and of a life that had been taken from me. When I learned at fourteen that both my mother and father were dead, and found out about brothers and sisters that...

Newcastle-based Sami Bayly is the illustrator of the gorgeous hardcover book, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals. For the Harry Hartog Handbook, we asked her what drew her to natural history and what her favourite reads are from that genre. As a young girl, I grew up on a small ...

We're putting a spring in your step this Black Friday! For November 29 only, when you spend over $149 you will receive a BONUS pair of Blue Q socks of your choosing*! They are sassy, supremely comfortable, and a portion of their proceeds go to Doctors Without Border...

Crossing to Safety Wallace Stegner Stegner’s classic, written in his late seventies, on the lifelong friendship between two couples. One of my all-time favourite books.     The Spare Room Helen Garner I love this possibly most among all Garner’s b...

Step Up is inspired by real life changemakers, and the small (or significant) changes we can choose to make a difference in the world. Whether it’s barracking for your beliefs, protecting the environment or living more consciously, these books and products made an impression on us. H...