Little Gnome

08/06/2026

is hands down just an absolute legend. Can’t wait to read Dirt Trap!! Tank Water was a cracking great read! Both in stock. Keep your beadies peeled for when Michael will be joining us in store for a chat!! Details to come!

03/06/2026

I think it’s love.

Games night tonight. See you there.

01/06/2026

Games night this Thursday. Come along and meet new friends. Hot chocolate will be made, fun will be had.

31/05/2026

30/05/2026

Beagle for attention.
This Thursday, join us for Games Night at Little Gnome! BYO game, or play any of our games. Throw in some dollars for pizza and enjoy making new friends.
If you don’t want to play games, bring your friends and chat all things books, while enjoying a warm hot chocolate or byo drinks.

Who’s in?

Anytime from 4pm till 7/8

26/05/2026

Take a chance on a local author!!
LOCK IN THE 18th of JULY for our next Indie Author Night, where we celebrate all things literature! Bonus points because it will also be the launch of Sophie Wright’s debut book, Shattered Realms!! I’m so excited to say that we have sold out of her first run of books, in a few days!! Woohoo!!
Stay awesome. Stay kind.

23/05/2026

A minute of your life spent appreciating our beautiful friend, Silvana Siliato. There’s a group of us who all met right here at Little Gnome. We started as a book club, a gardening club, a craft group and during the past eleven years, we have remained close friends. We always love supporting our most awesome friends, Silvana, in her theatre productions.

Get along to Mates Theatre and see Quartet, a play about growing old but never losing sight of who you are.

4 more shows - next Saturday 30/5 matinee 2pm & 7pm
Following Saturday 6/6 matinee 2pm & 7pm
Birkdale School of the Arts.

23/05/2026

Woohoo!! I want to see all copies sold by Monday!! Can we do it?
Lovers of fantasy, werewolves, vampires, warlocks, unite!!


UPDATE: four copies sold this morning! Let’s go!!

UPDATE OF THE UPDATE! Five copies today! Wynning in Wynnum!!

22/05/2026

Love love love Lota State School. Chuffed to be part of their movie night once again!
The Little Gnome Truck came in handy🤣

22/05/2026

I can’t love this enough!! Sophie Wright is our beloved staff member - an official Gnomie! At 16, she has written her first book, with the front cover illustrated by her Grandma! A real family affair!

Save the date - 18th of July, 5pm. We will be having a book launch for this most awesome Gnomie.

Shattered Realms sees 3 lands that were split over a hundred years ago, now facing a mysterious dark force that is hell bent on bringing them back together!

The 3 rulers of each land are quite content with their kingdoms and must join forces to stop the DARK from happening! Vampires, werewolves and warlocks come together, despite their animosity for each other, to fight for their home and way of life.

Take a chance folks. Self published, first time authors, are putting their art out into the world and it can be quite a daunting process! But it takes a reading community to come together to support them. This is the first stepping stone for many.

We hope to see you all on the 18th of July as we celebrate all things SOPHIE WRIGHT!

It will also be the date of our Indie Author night, so an even better excuse to celebrate all things literature and local!!

It’s a win win!!

Stay awesome. Stay kind.

20/05/2026

I’m having so much fun in the new Little Gnome Mobile. A comically tiny truck! Anywho, I’m also having a good time reading a number of books, including one written by one of our amazing Gnomie staff, Sophie. We will be having a book launch for her soon and her books will be available in store very soon!!
I love that we get to celebrate local artists, writing, illustrating, editing and so much more!

Stay awesome. Stay kind.

15/05/2026

1.48m wide by 3.4m long
My mini truck mini mid life crisis era has begun.
Introducing the NEW LITTLE GNOME MOBILE!

13/05/2026

What a bloody good day!!

09/05/2026

Some of our local authors on full display!! What legends!

05/05/2026

know I said I would be open tomorrow, but I think I was jumping the gun. I’m still not ok to work. Oops.

Fun times indeed! 2026 has been a year!!

Opening hours this week:
Wednesday CLOSED
🦖Thursday closing at 12.
🍄Thursday night Games Night is cancelled
🐸Friday closed all day

Back to normal hours next week.

Stay awesome. Stay kind.

02/05/2026

Bed Bound Days. I reckon that will be the title of the first book I write… it will also be so fictional, that it will never exist 🤣☕️📖
What are you reading?

Ps. Next Thursday is our Games Night and book club catch up. Let’s talk about books, while we play games🤷🏼‍♀️

30/04/2026

She’s over there having pup cups, while I’m over here wondering if I’ll get a coffee delivered home today 🤣

29/04/2026

28/04/2026

Folks, due to surgery, we will be operating on sporadic and limited opening hours for a few weeks.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday - 7.30am till 2pm
Thursday 7.30-4
Normal hours over the weekend.

We will be closed on Labour Day and Friday the 8th.

These disruptions may go on for just under a month.

Stay awesome. Stay kind.

25/04/2026

Lost and now it’s mine!! Gonna beat the high score.

Oh, also, it’s the last day of the Global Book Crawl! Open till 12🫶🏻

24/04/2026

Proud to volunteer at the ANZAC DAY dawn service for the Manly Lota Sub Branch RSL once again.

Such a beautiful and caring community. Big love to the Rotary Club for putting on such a great gunfire breakfast!!

Every year, at 2am, this amazing community comes together to set up speakers, marquees, chairs and coordinate a wonderful and solemn service. I love being a part of it.

Congratulations to the Sub Branch crew and to all the people who marched, the bands, choir and volunteers.

Lest we forget.

22/04/2026

Book Crawl time!!!

22/04/2026

BuY books and be the coolest person on the block!! 📚😎

The GLOBAL BOOK CRAWL is on and I’m beyond excited to see so many book lovers already on the trail!

Here’s a list of all the awesome, independently owned bookshops who are taking part:
📚 AVID READER
❤️BOOKS and STONE
🥰BRIGHT and EARLY BOOKS
🔪 CURSIVE KNIVES
🫶🏻DYMOCKS BRISBANE
👩🏾‍🏫FOREVER FABLES
🧑🏽‍🏫HARRY HARTOG CARINDALE
🐶PULP FICTION BOOKS
🦊QUICK BROWN FOX
💦 RIVERBEND BOOKS
🍄SCRUMPTIOUS READS
💐THE BOOK BOUQUET
🧢THE MAD HATTERS BOOKSHOP
🌟 THE WILD THINGS ARE

13/04/2026

Youth Homelessness Matters Day
15th April
Head over to the BABI website (google is your fried, as I can’t link it here) to find out more about wha they have planned.
Meanwhile, we are a drop in point for non-perishable items, toiletries etc. If you can donate, please do.

Stay awesome. Stay kind.

12/04/2026

If you can donate, please do. The tub will be out the front of the shop.