Boobook on Owen is nestled into the main Huskisson thoroughfare, between cafes, ice cream stores and real estate agents where wistful tourists have brunch, indulge their kids (there is a fudge store right nearby) and ponder making a sea change. The beautiful little store, like...
It's no secret Harry Hartog is one of our fave Canberra bookstores, so imagine how excited we were to learn that they were opening up a new store here!! Renaissance is the perfect word to descibe the new-look campus at the Australian National University (ANU). At...
Public service announcement: You can now leave your Christmas shopping as late as you like - our plan below will keep you sane and your gift list sorted Confession time. We ADORE Christmas here at Tate House. Our Christmas trees are up, our author is spending...
Don't you just adore the smell of books - especially treasured, secondhand or old books? Ever spent an afternoon immersing yourself in them, hunting through shelves and picking out things you never thought you'd find? Well, if you haven't been to Canty's - read on...
Sunny Cairns in far north Queensland was not the place we thought we would stumble onto - or into - an amazing independent bookstore! We lucked out finding Cairns Books in the air-conditioned glory of the Cairns Shopping Centre. Independently owned and operated by a...
Ready yourselves for a post full of insane amounts of excitable and enthusiastic adjectives...
We at Tate House started reviewing bookstores because we can’t get enough of how they grow and enrich the communities around them, creating a love of reading and learning (not to mention how many of them support their local indie authors!!). Paper Bird--an independently owned...
‘It is a genuine pleasure to work here’ are words not always spoken but are a sure sign that you are in more than just an average bookstore. This is definitely the case for Robinson’s Bookstore, tucked away in the Monaro Mall, Canberra Centre. Stepping into...
Age is not usually something people like to brag about, especially when we talk about our own! In the case of the long-standing independent bookstore, The Lane Bookshop, however, age is one of its many assets and something the team there are proud to discuss....