These Bookfairs raise a major portion of the funding needed to keep the Lifeline Canberra telephone counselling lines available to the community.

Our main Spring and Autumn Bookfairs offer around 200,000 donated items for sale. We have a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books, including rare books and collectables, children's books and foreign language books. You'll also find magazines and pamphlets, comics, maps and atlases, audio tapes and talking books, records and CDs, videos and DVDs, games and jigsaws.

Entry to the Lifeline Canberra Bookfairs is by gold coin donation. You can pay for your purchases with cash, cheque, credit card (Mastercard or Visa) or EFTPOS.

Autumn 2012 Bookfair

When?

• Friday 16 March 10am-6pm
• Saturday 17 March 10am-5pm
• Sunday 18 March 10am-4pm

Where?

Budawang Building
Exhibition Park
Flemington Road, Mitchell 
Map

What?

Our full range of books, magazines, games, jigsaws, comics, maps, records, tapes, CDs and DVDs.
 

News Flash

The 2012 Autumn Bookfair brings all the collectables together in one area. The familiar Collectors Room (in the Budawang conference centre’s Kakadu Room) still has the rare, more valuable and fragile items. Just outside this room is a new Collectables area where you can browse for vintage books, children’s collectables and annuals, adult comics and role-playing games and the diverse range of ‘Kollectors Korner’ items.

The entire Collectables area, including the Collectors Room, will be open from 10 am on all three days of the Bookfair. Click here for more information.

Watch a whole Bookfair in 3 minutes. This time-lapse sequence shows the September 2010 Bookfair, from setup through to the last afternoon of sales.