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Petrarch's Bookshop

Locality: Launceston, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6331 8088

Address: 89 Brisbane St 7250 Launceston, TAS, Australia

Website: https://www.petrarchs.com.au

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25.01.2022 THEY'RE HERE! Both Trent Dalton's new book All Our Shimmering Skies and Richard Flanagan's The Living Sea of Waking Dreams have hit the shelves! Shop Trent Dalton ... https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi Shop Richard Flanagan https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi See more

23.01.2022 A year at home in the country with Monty Don - the UK's favourite gardener, dog owner, writer and broadcaster - on a personal journey through the natural year, season by season, month by month. Get a copy at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... 'From a very early age I loved the countryside as much as any garden and was fascinated by the life that I saw all around me from trees, wildflowers, birds, insects and mammals. In a sense this book has been over sixty years in gestation. I have kept notebooks and journals ever since I could write and I have drawn upon these as well as the events of the past year.' My Garden World by Monty Don is a celebration of every living creature that we all share. This year has given us the enforced opportunity to learn more about the fascinating natural world around us. Whether you live in the countryside or the town, Monty's observations and insights are relevant to each and every one of us. My Garden World is Monty Don's personal journey through the natural year, month by month, season by season, observed from the immediate world around him. 'Wildlife is not something that we watch happening in remote and exotic parts of the world on our screens, but right here in our own back yards and the more that we encourage it and learn to live with it, the more rewarding it becomes. If, in our own modest back yards, we can help preserve and treasure our natural world then we will make the world a better place - not just for ourselves but for every living creature.'

22.01.2022 William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad. They are immediately tasked with apprehending Ahmed Rashedi, a notorious drug dealer, who operates his extensive network out of South London. Shop Hidden in Plain Sight at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... As the investigation progresses, William runs into enemies old and new: Adrian Heath, from his school days, now a street dealer who he convinces to turn informer; and financier Miles Faulkner, who makes a mistake that could finally see him put behind bars. Meanwhile, William and his fiancée Beth enjoy making preparations for their upcoming wedding, though an unpleasant surprise awaits them at the altar. As William's team closes the net around a criminal network like none they have ever faced before, he devises a trap they would never expect, one that is hidden in plain sight...

22.01.2022 Keri Smith, creator of the mega-bestselling Wreck This Journal, now brings her imagination and inspiration to children with this picture book that explores the very active experience of reading. Get a copy at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... What if there were a book that changed every time you read it? Actually, every book does this. We are all part of the books we read, because our individual reactions, ideas, and emotions make the book whole, and these things are changing all the time. Keri Smith has helped millions of people free their creativity and find their own voice with her interactive books, and now she brings that sensibility to children and to the act of reading. This picture book is an invitation to honour your own vision and to welcome imperfection. Kids will discover that reading can engage all five senses, and that what they themselves bring to a book is an important contribution. (And of course they'll be invited to do a bit of harmless wrecking!)

21.01.2022 #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a moving new novel about an injured army doctor and the two women whose secrets will change the course of his life. Get your copy at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked as an orthopedic surgeon sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he'd inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any. Tending to his grandfather's beloved bee hives while preparing for a second stint in medical school, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love with a local... yet, from their very first encounter, Trevor feels a connection with deputy sheriff Natalie Masterson that he can't ignore. But even as she seems to reciprocate his feelings, she remains frustratingly distant, making Trevor wonder what she's hiding. Further complicating his stay in New Bern is the presence of a sullen teenage girl, Callie, who lives in the trailer park down the road. Claiming to be 17, she works at the local sundries store and keeps to herself. Discovering that she was once befriended by his grandfather, Trevor hopes Callie can shed light on the mysterious circumstances of his grandfather's death, but she offers few clues - until a crisis triggers a race that will uncover the true nature of Callie's past, one more intertwined with the elderly man's passing than Trevor could have ever anticipated. In his quest to unravel Natalie and Callie's secrets, Trevor will learn the true meaning of love and forgiveness... and that in life, to move forward, we must often return to the place where it all began.

21.01.2022 The much anticipated new novel from international bestselling author Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places. The much anticipated new novel from international bestselling author Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places. Shop now at the link below ... https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi For her last summer before college, Claudine Henry and her mother head to a remote island off the Georgia coast. There, amidst the wild beauty of the place, she meets the free spirited Jeremiah Crew. Their chemistry is immediate and irresistible, and even though they both know that whatever they have can only last the summer, maybe one summer is enough...

20.01.2022 New Jodi Picoult is here! The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of Light returns with a thought-provoking and otherworldly new novel about the fates that we choose for ourselves and what happens when we have the chance to choose again. Get your copy now at the link below ... https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi Dawn Edelstein knows everything there is to know about dying. She specialises in helping her clients make peace with the end of their lives. But as she's flying home from her latest case, she is forced to confront her own mortality for the first time. Instead of seeing her brilliant quantum physicist husband and their beloved daughter flash before her eyes in what she assumes are her last moments, only one face is shockingly clear: Wyatt Armstrong. Safely on the ground, Dawn now faces a desperate decision. Should she return to Boston, her family and the life she knows, or journey back to an Egyptian archaeological site she left over a decade earlier, reconnect with Wyatt, and finally finish her abandoned magnum opus, The Book of Two Ways? As the story unfolds, Dawn must confront the questions she's never truly answered: What does a life well-lived look like? When we depart this earth, what do we leave behind of ourselves? And who would you be if you hadn't turned out to be the person you are right now?

18.01.2022 Cameron Smith AM is the most decorated rugby league player of all time. The recipient of numerous Dally M and Golden Boot awards, he has starred in the toughest league competition on the planet every season since he made his NRL debut in 2002. Shop Cameron Smith's autobiography at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... Captaining the Melbourne Storm to multiple premierships, Smith played in a staggering seventeen finals campaigns. An integral member of the record-breaking Queensland teams of 2006-2017, he won eleven State of Origin series. As skipper of the Australian national team for over a decade, he led the Kangaroos to two World Cups. Smith is credited with revolutionising the number nine position. He holds the State of Origin records for most appearances and most wins, as well as the NRL records for most games, goals, points scored, wins and appearances as captain. This autobiography maps his unique journey in the game: an extraordinary look into the biggest matches and biggest moments, Smith describes his career with great colour and candour, outlining what it takes to climb to the highest level in sport. Talent aside, it is Smith's intelligence and poise that set him apart, coupled with consistency, durability and longevity that are unlikely to ever be matched. Notoriously private throughout his career, The Storm Within sets the record straight. Finally, the life behind the legend - the man behind the mystery - tells his story.

18.01.2022 Hooray, it’s a party! Miffy celebrates her 65th birthday with this treasury. Shop the treasury now at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... In 1955, Dick Bruna wrote the first Miffy book. Ever since then, generations have grown up with Miffy’s adventures. This treasury bundles together five classic Miffy stories. Reading along with Miffy is fun!

17.01.2022 Today is LOVE YOUR BOOKSHOP DAY so call in and share some love. #lybd2020

17.01.2022 In The Deep End, book 15 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley and his family hit the road for a cross-country camping trip, ready for the adventure of a lifetime. Shop now at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... But things take an unexpected turn, and they find themselves stranded at an RV park that’s not exactly a summertime paradise. When the skies open up and the water starts to rise, the Heffleys wonder if they can save their vacation or if they’re already in too deep. And don’t miss an all-new fantasy from Greg’s best friend in Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Adventure, the follow-up to the instant #1 bestseller Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson’s Journal.

17.01.2022 Tomorrow is a VERY exciting day for new release Australian fiction! At 9am tomorrow morning, two HUGE new releases hit the shelves! The international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton returns with a glorious novel, All Our Shimmering Skies, destined to become another Australian classic. A few staff members have been lucky enough to read an advanced copy, and rest assured it does not disappoint!... Secure your copy at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is an ember storm of a novel. This is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most movingand astonishingbest... and we have limited SIGNED copies! Order yours at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi

16.01.2022 Shame and longing can flow through generations, but the secrets of the heart will not be buried for ever. Shop now at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the ceremony a group of young friends, including bride and groom, drive out to the beach. There is an accident. Three survive, but three are killed. The live of the families are shattered and the rifts between them are felt throughout the small town. Connor is one of the survivors. But staying among the angry and the mourning is almost as hard as living with the shame of having been the driver. He leaves the only place he knows for another life, taking his secrets with him. Travelling first to Liverpool, then London, he makes a home - of sorts - for himself in New York. The city provides shelter and possibility for the displaced, somewhere Connor can forget his past and forge a new life. But the secrets, the unspoken longings and regrets that have come to haunt those left behind will not be silenced. And before long, Connor will have to confront his past. Graham Norton's powerful and timely novel of emigration and return demonstrates his keen understanding of the power of stigma and secrecy - with devastating results.

16.01.2022 Honest, insightful, funny - a brilliant adult memoir about writing and teaching and life from one of Australia's most loved children's authors. Shop now at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... Sometimes, rather than making you laugh or cry out in surprise, a story will instead leave you wondering about human fragility ... In the telling of his own tale, children's author and screenwriter Paul Jennings demonstrates how seemingly small events can combine into a compelling drama. As if assembling the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, he puts together fragments, memories and anecdotes to reveal the portrait of a complex and weathered soul. Untwisted is revealing, moving and very funny.

12.01.2022 Don't forget to book yourself in some 'me time' this school holidays. THURS 1 OCT at 6-8pm at Tailrace Centre. Join us for a wine and a chat with Tasmanian Author Kyle Perry and his debut crime novel set in the Great Western Tiers 'The Bluffs'.... Tickets $10 via link below

11.01.2022 Dare to dream with this collection of 30 rule-breaking, boundary-pushing and risk-taking men and women who shape our national game. Get a copy at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... Selected by footy legend and dreamer Kevin Sheedy, Heroes of Footy celebrates the players with the biggest hearts and most powerful stories whose experiences will ignite the dreams of anyone who loves playing sport. Featuring stats, bios, coaching tips, and brilliant illustrations by Michael Weldon, Heroes of Footy is the perfect gift for young footy tragics everywhere.

11.01.2022 From the New York Times bestselling author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic. Shop now at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life. Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I’m concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I’m not joining his pack of adoring fans. I don’t need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts, I’m probably the most dangerous thing in the place. Just give me a chance and I’ll level mountains and kill untold millions, make myself the dark queen of the world. At least, that’s what the world expects me to do. Most of the other students in here would be delighted if Orion killed me like one more evil thing that’s crawled out of the drains. Sometimes I think they want me to turn into the evil witch they assume I am. The school itself certainly does. But the Scholomance isn’t getting what it wants from me. And neither is Orion Lake. I may not be anyone’s idea of the shining hero, but I’m going to make it out of this place alive, and I’m not going to slaughter thousands to do it, either. Although I’m giving serious consideration to just one. With flawless mastery, Naomi Novik creates a heroine for the agesa character so sharply realized and so richly nuanced that she will live on in hearts and minds for generations to come.

10.01.2022 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey and the sun and her flowers comes her greatly anticipated third collection of poetry. Shop now at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... Rupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself - reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. Illustrated by the author, themes of nature and nurture, light and dark, rest here. i dive into the well of my body and end up in another world everything i need already exists in me there’s no need to look anywhere else - home

10.01.2022 The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's most acclaimed historians, Ben MacIntyre. Get a copy now at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1945, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, she was racing through the Oxfordshire countryside to gather scientific intelligence from one of the country's most brilliant nuclear physicists. Secrets that she would transmit to Soviet intelligence headquarters via the radio transmitter she was hiding in her outdoor privy. Far from a British housewife, Mrs Burton - born Ursula Kuczynski, and codenamed 'Sonya' - was a German Jew, a dedicated communist, a colonel in Russia's Red Army, and a highly-trained spy. From planning an assassination attempt on Hitler in Switzerland, to spying on the Japanese in Manchuria, and helping the Soviet Union build the atom bomb, Sonya conducted some of the most dangerous espionage operations of the twentieth century. Her story has never been told - until now. Agent Sonya is the exhilarating account of one woman's life; a life that encompasses the rise and fall of communism itself, and altered the course of history.

09.01.2022 Bluey loves to play. Use the magnets to create games for Bluey, Bingo and their friends in the backyard, the forest and more. A fun-filled magnet book for kids of all ages! Get your copy now at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi

09.01.2022 From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller comes a brilliantly gripping thriller which finds a group of colleagues trapped by snow in their chalet in the French Alps, with deadly consequences. "Shareholders and directors of a hip new social media platform gather together at a ski resort for a company getaway. Tension builds and tempers flare, and guests start disappearing one by one... Ruth Ware has solidified herself as the modern-day Agatha Christie!" - Staff membe...r Holly Shop now at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi The unmissable new thriller from the queen of the modern-day murder mystery. Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, as the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app, gather for a make or break corporate retreat to decide the future of the company. At stake is a billion-dollar dot com buyout that could make them all millionaires, or leave some of them out in the cold. The clock is ticking on the offer, and with the group irrevocably split, tensions are running high. When an avalanche cuts the chalet off from help, and one board member goes missing in the snow, the group is forced to ask - would someone resort to murder, to get what they want?

08.01.2022 Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 miles homeless along The Salt Path, the windswept and wild English coastline now feels like their home. Shop now via the link below ... https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi And despite Moth's terminal diagnosis, against all medical odds, he seems revitalized in nature - outside, they discover that anything is possible. Now, life beyond The Salt Path awaits. As they return to four walls, the sense of home is illusive and returning to normality is proving difficult - until an incredible gesture by someone who reads their story changes everything: A chance to breathe life back into a beautiful but neglected farmhouse nestled deep in the Cornish hills; rewilding the land and returning nature to its hedgerows becomes their new path. Along the way, Raynor and Moth learn more about the land that envelopes them, find friends both new and old, and, of course, embark on another windswept adventure when the opportunity arises. The Wild Silence is a luminous story of hope triumphing over despair, of the human spirit's instinctive connection to nature, and of lifelong love prevailing over everything.

07.01.2022 In this stunning companion to Australian Birds and Australian Sea Life, Matt Chun explores Australia’s beloved mammals, from the remarkable platypus to the endangered bilby. Shop Australian Mammals at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... Matt Chun’s rendering of these beloved animals some cuddly, some curious and all extraordinary will evoke awe in all nature enthusiasts.

07.01.2022 It was a great pleasure to revisit some of the best sporting moments over the last two decades! A great read for any Tasmanian sports fan. Marcus

04.01.2022 Pearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. Get a copy now at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... In 1893, Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne is the grandest bookshop in the world, brimming with every curiosity imaginable. Each day brings fresh delights for the siblings: voice-changing sweets, talking parrots, a new story written just for them by their eccentric father. When Pearl and Vally learn that Pa has risked the Arcade - and himself - in a shocking deal with the mysterious Obscurosmith, the siblings hatch a plan. Soon they are swept into a dangerous game with impossibly high stakes: defeat seven challenges by the stroke of midnight and both the Arcade and their father will be restored. But if they fail Pearl and Vally won't just lose Pa - they'll forget that he and the Arcade ever existed.

03.01.2022 From the bestselling, award winning, author of Love Your Body comes Be Your Own Man! You can be anything. You can be everything. Get your copy now at the link below ... https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi Have you ever felt you should act a certain way or do certain things, just because you're a boy This book encourages young boys to broaden their ideas about what it means to be a boy, supporting them to feel free and proud to be who they truly are. Every boy deserves to be themselves without apology, and know that being themselves now will make them the man they will become in the future.

02.01.2022 Two more massive new releases have just arrived! Hollowpox has literally just come through the door and we are SO excited! The third book in the Nevermoor series, this book has been delayed a few times this year so we're so excited it's here now! Shop now at the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... Craig Silvey's brand new coming-of-age novel Honeybee is his first novel in 11 years, so it's very highly anticipated! Staff member Karen has read it already and it comes very highly recommended. Get your copy now the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi

02.01.2022 Happiness. Everyone wants more of it. But can you actually get happier? Inspirational Australian Turia Pitt dives into this idea, interviewing high-profile athletes, comedians, scientists and world experts to explore how everything from money to our relationships has an impact on how happy we can be. Shop now via the link below https://shop.petrarchs.com.au/details.cgi... Thousands of people have told me the one thing they’re searching for in life is happiness. So, I set out on a dragon-free quest to prove if ‘happy’ is, actually, an attainable goal, and not just a ridiculous aspiration. In this book, with her characteristic humour and gutsy intelligence, Turia Pitt goes on a quest to answer the question, Is it possible to be happier? What does she discover on her journey? Well, look, that’s why we want you to buy the bloody book, but we can tell you that it entails, among other things, practising gratitude, working on kindness, self-love, strengthening your relationships and accepting the hard times and bad days. Turia unpacks all of the above with easy-to-implement tips and strategies, hilarious insights into her own life and relationships, and introduces us to some of the world’s most fabulous people along the way, including Leigh Sales, Scott Pape, Zoë Foster Blake, Maria Forleo and Mick Fanning.