Collins Booksellers Queanbeyan

13/06/2026

04/06/2026

Our first ever book-club! From June onwards on the last Monday of every month, we will be hosting our own book club @ Urban Bar & Grill 📚

June BOTM is Mantle by Romy Ash. Come pick up your copy in store for 10% off (book-club members only):

Nature has another evolution in store for us

I think about how the earth likes to cough things up. Bones, fossils, slivers of rock, like an interior self. How it likes to spew gas, lava, smoke. How the earth under our feet is anything but solid. How in fact, the surface itself is constantly in movement, teeming. And inside, inside, in the mantle, we can only guess.

Ursula is a self-possessed geologist. In her life on the mainland, she’s a guardian of the timescale, dividing history into segments and reading the Earth’s depths. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s simply science.

When her ailing mother is struck with a mystery illness she is called to the coastline of lutruwita/Tasmania. What begins as an incurable rash evolves into something more dangerous.

With the sickness spreading across the island, and beyond, Ursula finds herself stranded, stuck in her mother’s house and increasingly entangled with a younger man who she met at the pub. She is grieving, beginning to unhinge – and now she too has the rash.

The wild places of the island are solace, even as the world around her begins to shift. As she faces this eruption of new life, and grapples with death and decay, Ursula realises that this change may not signal an end, but a beginning.

01/06/2026

New month, new book of the months!

Our new reading guide is also out now, come visit the store for your free copy to browse through our monthly specials and highlights!

01/06/2026

A puzzle with a twist! Finish your puzzle, open your envelope inside and find all the riddles and locate the answers in the artwork!

What a cool kickstarter!

28/05/2026

Just a quick note to advise that from next week onwards we are closing slightly earlier on Thursdays. Our new business hours are:

25/05/2026

What a day

21/05/2026

Our new custom bookmarks by local artist Jenny Sheppard!

The Monaro bridge & The Town Park. You can pick these up for free in store🏬

17/05/2026

What an incredible way to celebrate one year of our bookstore! 📚✨

A huge thank you to everyone who came along to celebrate our first anniversary with us. We had so much fun bringing this special event to life alongside some amazing local authors — Peter Spencer, Jacinta Froud, Emma Grey and Jemma McEwan.

And a special shoutout to Chloe from Giggly Wiggly, who absolutely wowed the crowd with her magical storytelling balloon show! 🎈

It was so wonderful to see many of our cherished regulars, as well as lots of new faces. Thank you for welcoming and supporting us in this beautiful little community — we truly appreciate every single one of you.

Please keep sharing your love of books with us, and we’ll keep striving to be the very best little community bookstore we can be. ❤️📖

PS. The winner of the prize draw will be announced tomorrow!

17/05/2026

Today! Stop on by. Members get double points, ends today!

14/05/2026

Congratulations Lee Lai on your Stella(r) win!