The Whitsundays Writers Festival is excited to announce Beach Book Boutique as its official Festival Bookshop.

Established in September 2015, Airlie Beach’s iconic independent bookstore overlooks the expansive lagoon. It offers new releases and second-hand books in-store and online, including their unique book exchange for new and high-quality recycled books.

Beach Book Boutique will be selling select titles of both Festival speakers and local authors and will host meet and greet sessions and book signings during the Festival. A smaller bookshop will be on-site at Festival venues.

Beach Book Boutique and owner Belinda Harris

Beach Book Boutique is located at Shop 1A / 273 Shute Harbour Road, the lagoon in the heart of Airlie Beach.

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Support a local Whitsundays writer!

Beach Book Boutique has a number of titles by local authors available:

A Fraction More Than Nothing, Rob Bredl
Absolute Truth, Joab Russo
Adventures of a Londoner Who Now Calls Australia Home, Mary Sanghvi      
Art of Living, Tad Nowicki  
Demography Day, Peter Breally
In the Mists of Time, Natasha NU Jochim  
Island Adventures Book 1 Island Life, Maggie Bowden
Island Adventures Book 2 Whale Talk, Maggie Bowden
Island Adventures Smuggler’s Cove, Maggie Bowden
My Girl Bill, Rick Larkin
Passport to Paradise, Dia Thomo
Raging Jake, Stephen Degenaro
Stuck on Vacation with Ryan Rupert, PS Malcom         
Sugar Town, Robert Nicholls
The Naked Rower, Rob Hamill
The Travel Addiction, Ian Hamilton
Trouble in The Port, Glen Hall             
What Do You Not Know About Our Forests, Rob Bredl

Are you a local writer with a published book?

We look forward to supporting Whitsunday authors with a number of exclusive opportunities:

  • Sell your titles through the official Festival Bookshop and get listed on our website (terms and conditions apply, at the discretion of Beach Book Boutique). Please contact us to learn more
  • Volunteer
  • Consider our Featured Local Author offer 
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