Furry friends, deadly pests or tasty treats?

The Easter Bunny may be cute and cuddly, but he's a real pest in Australia (which is why we recommend the Haigh's Easter Bilby instead – see below). A century ago Australia was home to 10 billion rabbits, thriving in their adopted home. Storyteller Bruce Munday finds the rabbit saga irresistible, and has collected it into his new book, Those Wild Rabbits. The book features this excerpt from the Age in 1925, including a recipe for baked rabbit…

The Easter Bilby: Enjoyed since 1993

Hopefully the Easter Bilby will be bringing you plenty of Haigh's chocolates this weekend. Here is the story of the Haigh's bilby, which has indeed been Enjoyed for Generations – if only they were still life-size! Wrapping moulded chocolate and eggs ready for Easter. Circa 1965. The idea came from Erwin Shulten, a ranger at Bundaleer Forest Reserve at Jamestown, who asked Haigh’s and a couple of other manufacturers to create a chocolate bilby to replace the traditional Easter rabbit in…

Our authors are the best authors

Am I repeating myself? Because they're ace. We've always known it, but it's nice when they get the recognition they deserve, as is happening at the moment -- Hard on the heels of Margaret Merrilees's shortlisting for the Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing, we now have not one but two longlistings from the Nita B. Kibble Awards as well! The first is Rachel Hennessy, whose novel The Heaven I Swallowed was runner-up for the Australian/Vogel…

Hampers! Books! Chocolate! Bliss!

Need another reason to come along to our pre-Easter sale? Well, there's always the fact that you'll get the chance to win one of these two bad boys: Question is, books or chocolate? Delayed or immediate gratification? Oh, and there's some awesome Fox Creek wine in there too. God. Can I take both?

Easter Sale!!

We'll be open 10am until 4pm on Saturday 12 April as well as standard hours for the rest of the week, with 20% off all stock!