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- Location(s): Tasmania, Australia, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Spy, Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Present Day and Wartime Vietnam (Early 1970s)
In the tiny Tasmanian town of Mole Creek, retired Australian cop and Vietnam veteran Pete McAuslan has retreated to his fishing cabin to write his memoirs. In Sydney, his grandson, journalist and trashy true crime author Xander, learns that...
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
- Location(s): Hobart
- Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
- Era(s): Contemporary
An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving―and astonishing―best. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying―if her three children would just allow it....
- Location(s): Tasmania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kieran Elliott’s life changed forever on a single day when a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that haunts him still resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal town he once called...
- Location(s): Tasmania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jessica is a PhD candidate living in southernmost Tasmania, studying the activity of the glow worms that inhabit Winter Cave, an untouched haven she discovered herself. Aside from study and work, Jessica spends most of her time with her...
- Location(s): Hobart
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
When patriarch Gerald Hawkins passes away in his Tasmanian home, after ten years of serious illness, his family experience a wave of grief and, admittedly, a surge of relief. Gerald’s dominating personality has loomed large over his wife, Connie,...