To celebrate the release of A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough, our friends at Penguin Random House have generously put together five incredible prize packs, supporting an organisation very close to Sir David's heart; the World Wild Fund for Nature. How to go in ...

To help celebrate Love Your Bookshop Day, we are running a Design Your Dream Bookshop competition where you can in the running to win a $35 Harry Hartog voucher, plus a bookmark and badge based around the wonderful middle-grade fiction The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor (...

Look no further, your Spring School Holiday activities have arrived!  Catering for kids 6 years and up, these writing and illustration workshops are the perfect way to keep children and teens creatively stimulated. Led by some of Australia's best writers, the Workshops a...

We pay sharp attention when we witness unanimous swooning for a book. This time, it's the tender and comedic fiction Sorrow and Bliss by Sydney writer Meg Mason, which is billed for fans of Sally Rooney, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Fleabag. Four of our Booksellers share their tho...

I find it difficult to write fathers. No matter how hard I try, they always turn out to be good. I’ve never had trouble with the mothers in my novels, who have come to mind with faults already sewn in. Or rather, the story comes to mind an...

As Father's Day is all about family, we've turned to our own to hear more about the story of our founders, David and Robert Berkelouw. They share what Father's Day means for them, and their top book recommendations for the celebration. David Berkelouw What does Father&#...

Whether he's hankering for a touch of adventure, a snifter of whisky, or just a stylish solution to clunky key chains, we've got a gift to suit this Father's Day. Orbitkey from $32.90 These ingenious keyrings store your keys in a silent stack for neat and stylish stora...

Dear reader, Thank you so much for placing the care of your Curated Book List in our hands. Based on your feedback, below are my heartfelt suggestions. All in the Blue Unclouded Weather by Robin Klein Since LM Montgomery is your favourite (and mine ... my dog is named G...

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 ...

Please note our Survey has closed and the winners will be announced shortly. 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 pl...

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 service...

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...