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Deep South

Author(s): Ralph Crane & Danielle Wood (editors)

Location(s): Tasmania

Genre(s): Short Stories

Era(s): Various

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This handsome collection, the first to bring together the finest stories about Tasmania, includes works by notable early Australian writers, such as Marcus Clarke and Tasma: internationally renowned practitioners, like Hal Porter, Carmel Bird and Nicholas Shakespeare: and a range of newer voices, from Danielle Wood and Rohan Wilson to Rachael Treasure.

These twenty-four superb stories showcase the island’s colonial past, its darkness and humour, the unique beauty and savagery of its landscape.

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Really captures the beauty and the darkness of Tasmania – EditorGuy –

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