Petersen's Bookstore in Hastings, Victoria | Independent book shop

Petersen's Bookstore

Locality: Hastings, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5979 8233

Address: Shop 2, 103 High Street 3915 Hastings, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.teachersresource.com.au

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23.01.2022 So many great books for Christmas...

22.01.2022 A Garden of Thoughts provides daily inspiration for living a bountiful, beautiful and blessed life. Discover an enchanted land where dreams are the fragrant blossoms of possibility. Just one of the many little goodies filling our shelves.

20.01.2022 Christmas A-Z from Little Golden Books. Gorgeous board book.

18.01.2022 Extraordinary Old Dogs Heartstrings tugged!

17.01.2022 Stephen King once said ‘books are a uniquely portable magic’. Well, the last few weeks have seen our shelves and orders list filled to the brim with magic! Come in and visit us tomorrow to find your new favourite book or have us order in that hard-to-find one you’ve been looking for #shelfie

16.01.2022 Loving Country. Bruce Pascoe and Vicky Shukuroglou A Guide to Sacred Australia... Loving Country is a powerful and essential guidebook that offers a new way to travel and discover Australia through an Indigenous narrative. In this beautifully designed and photographed edition, co-authors Bruce Pascoe and Vicky Shukuroglou, in consultation with communities and Elders across Australia, show travellers how to see the country as herself, to know her whole and old story, and to find the way to fall in love with her, our home. Featuring 18 places in detail, from the ingenious fish traps at Brewarrina and the rivers that feed the Great Barrier Reef, to the love stories of Wiluna and the whale story of Margaret River, there is so much to celebrate. This immersive book covers history, Dreaming stories, traditional cultural practices, Indigenous tours and the importance of recognition and protection of place. It offers keys to unlock the heart of this loving country for those who want to enrich their understanding of our continent, and for travellers looking for more than a whistle-stop tour of Australia. In Loving Country, Bruce and Vicky hope that all communities will be heard when they tell their stories, and that these stories and the country from which they have grown will be honoured. Readers are encouraged to discover sacred Australia by reconsidering the accepted history, and hearing diverse stories of her Indigenous peoples. It is a roadmap to communication and understanding, between all peoples and country, to encourage environmental and social change.

16.01.2022 Kitchen Sink Drama My favourite part of the Good Weekend magazine on Saturdays. As seen in Good Weekend: one hundred of Paul Connolly’s beloved one-hundred-word vignettes along with Jim Pavlidis’s whimsical illustrations.... From tempestuous family roasts to the first blooms of young love, from relationship missteps to moments of familial joy, Kitchen Sink Drama reflects domestic life in all its messy, delightful and humorous glory. With characters depicted in nuanced fullness, these poignant, pithy stories capture the truth at the heart of so many of our experienceseach one a glimpse of a whole world. Kitchen Sink Drama is a collection of some of the finest writing on the human condition.

16.01.2022 Fire Flood Plague Leading Australian writers respond to the challenges of 2020, to create a vital cultural record of these extraordinary times. 2020 began with firestorms raging through the country, followed by floods, and then a global pandemic that has changed how Australians think, feel and live. We all experienced this year differently, but one thing rings true for all of us: this is a year we won’t forget.... This anthology brings together original work from a diverse collection of Australian voices, from writers to scientists, journalists to historians, all expressing what 2020 meant to them. They write of ash falling from the sky, fish dying on riverbanks, loved ones lost, loved ones reunited, the historical resonance of fire and plague for Indigenous Australians, geopolitical tensions, the changed nature of travel, friendships rekindled on Zoom, the urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, the state of the arts and the media, the importance of nurturing our inner lives, communities destroyed and communities rebuilding. FIRE FLOOD PLAGUE is a vital cultural record of the resilience and humanity needed in these extraordinary times. Including original pieces from Lenore Taylor, Nyadol Nuon, Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Lucashenko, Billy Griffiths, Jess Hill, Kim Scott, Brenda Walker, Jane Rawson, Omar Sakr, Richard McGregor, Jennifer Mills, Gabrielle Chan, John Birmingham, Tim Flannery, Rebecca Giggs, Kate Cole-Adams, George Megalogenis, James Bradley, Alison Croggon, Melanie Cheng, Kirsten Tranter, Tom Griffiths, Joëlle Gergis and Delia Falconer.

13.01.2022 "our" Penny! Tomato book in stock now!

05.01.2022 A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. ‘Leave the world behind’ by New York novelist Rumaan Alam is on the shelf!

04.01.2022 The Girl, the Dog and the Writer series by Katrina Nannestad He's the world's vaguest novelist. She's a shy and unusual child. Together, they're travelling the world, one book a time. ... For the first ten years of Freja's life, she and her mother Clementine have roamed the Arctic in search of zoological wonders. Happy, content, together. Freja and Clem. Clem and Freja. But now, everything is changing, and Clementine must send Freja away to live with her old friend Tobias, a bestselling crime writer and, quite possibly, the most absent-minded man on earth. Tobias isn't used to life with a child, and Freja isn't used to people at all, but together they'll stumble into an Italian adventure so big that it will change things forever ...

04.01.2022 Jack Reacher....just keeps going. Lee Child however, has decide to retire, and hand the reins to his brother, Andrew Grant, a fellow thriller writer. Going forward, the books will be authored under the name Andrew Child. The latest, Sentinel, is co-authored ahead of the handover! If you haven't stumbled across the Reacher series, there's a long list to choose from.....

01.01.2022 It's December. It's officially Christmas....sort of....not long now! We have Lions cakes and puddings again this year. They will go quickly, so don't dawdle. Large cakes are $17. Small cakes and puddings are $13.

01.01.2022 Nadya Bakes Incredible cakes and bakes that we can all achieve at home. All areas of baking, conquering cakes and traybakes, no-bake bakes, tarts and pies, desserts, celebration bakes, biscuits and buns as well as breads and savouries. Recipes include Money-Can't-Buy-You-Happiness Brownies, Baked Chilli Churros, a beautiful Baked Rhubarb, Rosemary and Olive Oil Polenta Cake and a wow-factor Layered Honey and Soured Cream Cake.