State Bookstore

State Bookstore The State Bookstore is a boutique store selling fine books, paper, stationery, specialising in non-fiction, travel, art and more.

Located in the historic Soundy Building (1883), adjoining the State Cinema on Elizabeth Street in the vibrant North Hobart cultural hub, the State Cinema Bookstore is a boutique store selling fine books, paper, stationery and gifts. We specialise in non-fiction, travel, art, fashion, architecture, and hand-selected fiction titles along with a wide range of stationery items including LAMY pens and

Moleskine notebooks. Gift Vouchers are also available. With the State Cinema, Bookstore and Café Bar all on the one premises, you can now enjoy a fine film, coffee or glass of wine, and take home your next great read all in one visit. We’re open from 10am seven days a week, and until late on Friday and Saturday nights, so you can pop in at your leisure for a treat anytime!

Do you need a really good book for Father's Day? We highly recommend Christopher Raja's Eye of the Needle - a story of g...
09/08/2026

Do you need a really good book for Father's Day? We highly recommend Christopher Raja's Eye of the Needle - a story of grief, drugs, s*x and love all set against the backdrop of St Kilda in the 1880s as Australia blossoms and becomes the continent we know today.

There's lots more excellent fiction available so come in and check out our selections today!

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In 1882 a young Afghan named Kadir lands in Port Augusta. He has arrived with six camels to make his fortune, and so becomes the transport for a scientific expedition into the red centre.

More than a century later a young man named Kris comes of age in the Melbourne suburbs, having emigrated from India with his family when he was just a boy. After the trauma of his father’s mysterious death, Kris gravitates to St Kilda in search of a bigger world.

Fate will lead Kris to drugs and s*x and love. He will learn what it truly takes to write a novel about the visionary life: the tale of a cameleer who comes across the seas from Asia and is drawn into the dazzling heart of the continent, where all is revealed—the ancient peoples, power and possession, lies and lust, faith, death, and what really matters.

Christopher Raja’s Eye of the Needle is a spectacular novel about the force of desire and ambition, about what love does to us and what we will do for love.

We've been waiting on this delivery, and we're sure a lot of you have been too, as it's always an exciting day when Rich...
07/08/2026

We've been waiting on this delivery, and we're sure a lot of you have been too, as it's always an exciting day when Richard Flanagan has a new release.

Heresies is a collection of writing's from one of Tasmania's greatest authors and we're excited to share this new release with you.

Come and pick yourself up a copy today!

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From the only author ever to have won both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize (Britain's leading prize for non-fiction) comes a dazzling collection of writing, essays, articles and speeches.

From Manus to MONA to birds to the Black Summer, from the destruction of our natural world to the hope offered by Indigenous Australia to the growing corrosion of democracy, from Salman Rushdie to the Segal Report, family and love, Flanagan’s non-fiction writings carry the author’s trademark elegance, subversive wit, and humanity.

This showcase of Richard Flanagan’s heretical brilliance over twenty years speaks to the heart of our troubled times now.

Possibly one of the best books of all times, and certainly one of the best books ever written by a chef, Anthony Bourdai...
05/08/2026

Possibly one of the best books of all times, and certainly one of the best books ever written by a chef, Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential is an incredible work that follows the late chef's early days coming up in restaurants.

It also has inspired the upcoming movie TONY which is coming up at the State Cinema, releasing on the 20th of August.

Pick up a copy today and find more details about the film now: https://statecinema.com.au/movies/details/State/10390

Sarah has been recommending Whalefall to readers ever since it hit our shelves back in 2023, so like the rest of us, she...
04/08/2026

Sarah has been recommending Whalefall to readers ever since it hit our shelves back in 2023, so like the rest of us, she was very excited to find out that this incredible tale is heading to the big screen later this year!

If you want to prepare yourself and read this amazing book before the giant whale and his friends arrive at the State Cinema then come in and grab a copy today!

You know you're in for a good story when the person writing it informs you that they probably shouldn't be alive! Philip...
02/08/2026

You know you're in for a good story when the person writing it informs you that they probably shouldn't be alive!

Philip Blake is a master storyteller, and when the stories are this good you just have to go along for the ride...just in the book though. You can decide for yourself if it'd be a good idea to go for a drive with Philip after you've read That Was Close!

Pick up the perfect gift for Father's Day now in our non-fiction section!

The Booker Prize longlist has been announced, and we have as many of the book as we can get our hands on!Want to pick up...
31/07/2026

The Booker Prize longlist has been announced, and we have as many of the book as we can get our hands on!

Want to pick up these incredible reads for yourself? Come and see us today!

And if you want a glimpse into the future hottest releases then check out the full longlist here: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/2026

In an out-of-the-ordinary move from the Bookstore, we are getting all political!These fantastic and fascinating new book...
30/07/2026

In an out-of-the-ordinary move from the Bookstore, we are getting all political!

These fantastic and fascinating new books will help you dig a bit deeper into the current state of the world, and potentially understand a bit more of the discord that is flying around at the moment.

If you're looking to get a bit more politics in your life (some of you must be!) then come and check out our new non-fiction today!

We talked recently about how excited we were to have the incredible Musquito in stock, so we were over the moon when the...
28/07/2026

We talked recently about how excited we were to have the incredible Musquito in stock, so we were over the moon when the wonderful author Naomi Parry Duncan came in to sign some copies for us!

If you haven't yet picked up a copy of this essential novel, then make sure you come and see us before they are all gone!

This is a beautiful and poetic book, but not one for the faint of heart. Local author Adam Ouston has created a beautifu...
23/07/2026

This is a beautiful and poetic book, but not one for the faint of heart. Local author Adam Ouston has created a beautiful novel full of darkness and light which is sure to keep you gripped throughout.

Pick up a copy of this book and we guarantee you won't find any other like it this year!

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While searching for inspiration for what will be his final work, an unnamed poet and defender of Tasmania's wild places finds himself trapped down an abandoned mine in the island's mountain rainforests. In the darkness he is visited by memories and voices both from his own past as well as the tortured history of the pillaged landscape to which he has devoted his life and work. Lost in a fever dream, in a single sentence that carries the reader effortlessly along, the poet journeys through a kaleidoscope of Tasmanian history, mining lore, hauntology, poetry, rain and rainbow trout, drilling deep into the contemporaneous horrors of the North Mount Lyell disaster and Mawson's expedition becoming trapped in Antarctic pack ice.

An unparalleled reading experience, Mine is at once wondrous, terrifying and haunting; a story of environmental vandalism and exploitation as well as a luminous paean to the beauty which persists in a world spinning out of control.

If you're hyped up after seeing The Odyssey and need another Greek gods tale to quench your thirst, here's a new release...
18/07/2026

If you're hyped up after seeing The Odyssey and need another Greek gods tale to quench your thirst, here's a new release for you.

This Immortal Heart by Jennifer Saint tells us the love story of gods Aphrodite and Ares and would make the perfect cozy winter read.

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Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, wields unparalleled power over every divine and mortal heart. Though her world is one of beauty, she is the most dangerous god of all, ruled by passion regardless of the consequences.

Ares, God of War, is her perfect contradiction: feared, unwanted and relentless in his devotion to chaos. Where she breathes life into longing, he thrives in destruction.

And yet gods are no more immune to love and loss than anyone else, and soon their lives collide. But even divine love can't protect them from the fates of Mount Olympus, and whilst the God of War may be capable of greater love than anyone else, so may the Goddess of Love be capable of the gravest mistakes.

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Tuesday 9:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 5pm
Thursday 9:30am - 5pm
Friday 9:30am - 9pm
Saturday 9:30am - 9pm
Sunday 9:30am - 5pm

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